Laravel multiple databases PHPUnit [duplicate]

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I am developing a application with multiple database access and I want to have PHPUnit tests with this. My current approache is to have in the config\databases.php multiple connections (mysql, mysql2, mysql3) so I can have in the env file a different access for all of them. Because of this, the models have the $connection variable defined. In my first feature test I want to access a page and just see the data that I am providing in my factory, so just to get things started. In my phpunit.xml file I have specified the DB_CONNECTION to be sqlite and for each of the MySql setting to have the value=":memory:".

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<php>
    <env name="APP_ENV" value="testing"/>
    <env name="CACHE_DRIVER" value="array"/>
    <env name="SESSION_DRIVER" value="array"/>
    <env name="QUEUE_DRIVER" value="sync"/>
    <env name="DB_CONNECTION" value="sqlite"/>
    <env name="DB_DATABASE_1" value=":memory:"/>
    <env name="DB_DATABASE_2" value=":memory:"/>
    <env name="DB_DATABASE_3" value=":memory:"/>
</php>

So above you can find the relevant code from PHPUnit.

.env

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=db1
DB_USERNAME=xxx
DB_PASSWORD=xxx

DB_HOST_2=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT_2=3306
DB_DATABASE_2=db2
DB_USERNAME_2=xxx
DB_PASSWORD_2=xxx

DB_HOST_2=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT_2=3306
DB_DATABASE_3=db3
DB_USERNAME_3=xxx
DB_PASSWORD_3=xxx

The problem that I have is the fact that when I run the tests, i have this error -> PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1049] Unknown database ':memory:'.

So somehow Laravel is not parsing the memory value. Any suggestion will be mush appreciated. Thank you

Answer 1

Hard to decode where you actually put the :memory: value.

In the phpunit.xml <php> section, this should be sufficient (assuming you haven't modified the sqlite connection):

<php>
    <env name="DB_CONNECTION" value="sqlite"/>
    <env name="DB_DATABASE" value=":memory:"/>
</php>

Answer 2

I was having the same issue, but I got things working with some help from Adam Wathan on Twitter.

Here's what I did:

phpunit.xml:

<env name="DB_CONNECTION" value="sqlite"/>
<env name="DB_DATABASE" value=":memory:"/>
<env name="DB_CONNECTION_ACTIVITY_LOG" value="sqlite"/>
<env name="DB_DATABASE_ACTIVITY_LOG" value=":memory:"/>

config/database.php:

'sqlite' => [
    'driver' => 'sqlite',
    'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', database_path('database.sqlite')),
    'prefix' => '',
],

'mysql' => [
    'driver' => env('DB_CONNECTION', 'mysql'),
    'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
    'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
    'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
    'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
    'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
    'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''),
    'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
    'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
    'prefix' => '',
    'strict' => true,
    'engine' => null,
],

'mysql-activity-log' => [
    'driver' => env('DB_CONNECTION_ACTIVITY_LOG', 'mysql'),
    'host' => env('DB_HOST_ACTIVITY_LOG', '127.0.0.1'),
    'port' => env('DB_PORT_ACTIVITY_LOG', '3306'),
    'database' => env('DB_DATABASE_ACTIVITY_LOG', 'forge'),
    'username' => env('DB_USERNAME_ACTIVITY_LOG', 'forge'),
    'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD_ACTIVITY_LOG', ''),
    'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET_ACTIVITY_LOG', ''),
    'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
    'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
    'prefix' => '',
    'strict' => true,
    'engine' => null,
],

.env:

DB_CONNECTION=mysql
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=my-app
DB_USERNAME=root
DB_PASSWORD=

DB_CONNECTION_ACTIVITY_LOG=mysql-activity-log
DB_HOST_ACTIVITY_LOG=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT_ACTIVITY_LOG=3306
DB_DATABASE_ACTIVITY_LOG=my-app
DB_USERNAME_ACTIVITY_LOG=root
DB_PASSWORD_ACTIVITY_LOG=

Also, for anyone not up to the point of the PDOException, make sure to set the connections in your migrations/models, too.

database/migrations/my_migration.php:

Schema::connection(env('DB_CONNECTION_ACTIVITY_LOG', 'mysql'))->create(...);

app/MyModel.php:

class MyModel extends Model
{
    public function __construct($attributes = [])
    {
        parent::__construct($attributes);
        $this->connection = config('app.env') === 'testing' ? 'sqlite' : 'mysql-activity-log';
    }
    ...
}

Answer 3

To resolve a similar problem, I used a trait on the Model classes.

In my phpunit.xml I have this code

<env name="DB_CONNECTION" value="sqlite_testing"/>
<env name="DB_DATABASE" value=":memory:"/>```

In my config/database.php file I have connections set up for each of the databases, and a sqlite_testing connection set up for testing

'sqlite_testing' => [
    'driver' => 'sqlite',
    'database' => ':memory:',
    'prefix' => '',
],

'mysql_connection_a' => [
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
        'database' => env('DB_DATABASE', 'forge'),
        'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
        'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
        'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''),
        'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
        'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
        'prefix' => '',
        'strict' => true,
        'engine' => null,
    ],

'mysql_connection_b' => [
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
        'database' => env('DB_DATABASE_B', 'forge'),
        'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
        'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
        'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''),
        'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
        'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
        'prefix' => '',
        'strict' => true,
        'engine' => null,
    ],

'mysql_connection_c' => [
        'driver' => 'mysql',
        'host' => env('DB_HOST', '127.0.0.1'),
        'port' => env('DB_PORT', '3306'),
        'database' => env('DB_DATABASE_C', 'forge'),
        'username' => env('DB_USERNAME', 'forge'),
        'password' => env('DB_PASSWORD', ''),
        'unix_socket' => env('DB_SOCKET', ''),
        'charset' => 'utf8mb4',
        'collation' => 'utf8mb4_unicode_ci',
        'prefix' => '',
        'strict' => true,
        'engine' => null,
    ],

I then create a trait for each of my connections to set the connection and include them in the relevant models. e.g. if the User model needed to use mysql_connection_a I would use ConnectionATrait in the model

use App\Traits\ConnectionATrait;

class User extends Authenticatable
{
     use Notifiable, ConnectionATrait;

The trait would then look like this

trait ConnectionATrait
{
    /**
    * The database table used by the model.
    *
    * @var string
    */

    public function __construct(array $attributes = [])
   {
        parent::__construct($attributes);
        if (env('APP_ENV') != 'testing') {
            $this->connection = 'mysql_connection_a';
        }else{
            $this->connection = 'sqlite_testing';
        }
    }
}

If you use migrations in your tests I also had to do a similar approach in the migration files and use a trait for each connection.

For the mysql_connection_a I create a trait that looks likes below that overrides the getConnection method:

trait ConnectionAConnectionTrait
{
    /**
    * Get the migration connection name.
    *
    * @return string
    */
    public function getConnection()
    {
        if (env('APP_ENV') != 'testing') {
            return 'mysql_connection_a';
        }
        return 'sqlite_testing';
    }
}

Then in the migration it would look like this

use Database\migrations\traits\ConnectionAConnectionTrait;

class CreateUsersTable extends Migration {

     use ConnectionAConnectionTrait;

     /**
     * Run the migrations.
     *
     * @return void
     */
     public function up()
     {
         Schema::connection($this->getConnection())
            ->create('users', function(Blueprint $table)
            {