Why would a service provider not be mocked? - laravel

Question

I'm using a library to send send requests to Indeed jobs https://github.com/jobapis/jobs-indeed.
I have setup a provider so I can easily mock the requests and also so I don't have to setup my credentials every time I use it.
This library has 2 classes. A Query and Provider class. The Provider class is responsible for making the http request.
I can mock the Query class but I can't mock the Provider class.
Provider:
namespace App\Providers;
use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;
use JobApis\Jobs\Client\Queries\IndeedQuery;
use JobApis\Jobs\Client\Providers\IndeedProvider;
class JobSearchServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
/**
* Register services.
*
* #return void
*/
public function register()
{
// Register Indeeds API
$this->app->bind(IndeedQuery::class, function() {
// Build the required fields for indeeds api
$indeed = new IndeedQuery([
'publisher' => config('services.indeed.publisher'),
'format' => 'json',
'v' => '2',
]);
return $indeed;
});
$this->app->bind(IndeedProvider::class, function() {
// Use an empty query object so that we can initialise the provider and add the query in the controller.
$queryInstance = app('JobApis\Jobs\Client\Queries\IndeedQuery');
return new IndeedProvider($queryInstance);
});
}
}
Controller:
public function searchIndeed(Request $request, IndeedQuery $query, IndeedProvider $client)
{
dump($query); // Returns a mockery object
dd($client); // Returns original object
}
Test:
public function testSearchIndeed()
{
$user = factory(User::class)->create();
$this->mock(IndeedQuery::class);
$this->mock(IndeedProvider::class);
$this->actingAs($user)
->get('indeed')
->assertStatus(200);
}
Why is the IndeedQuery being mocked but not the IndeedProvider?

Answer 1

Found the problem.
Mockery doesn't throw errors if you try and mock a class that doesn't exist. I had a spelling mistake in my tests when requiring the class.
Controller
use JobApis\Jobs\Client\Providers\IndeedProvider;
Test
use JobApis\Jobs\Client\Provider\IndeedProvider; // Notice missing 's'
When using mockery you won't get errors if the class doesn't exist. So if the mockery object isn't being resolved check the spelling.