PHPUnit test failing on plugin

Question

my phpunit test fails with this error:

C:\workspace\internal_jets3\tests>phpunit --verbose
PHPUnit 3.5.7 by Sebastian Bergmann.


Fatal error: Call to a member function getOptions() on a non-object in C:\worksp
ace\internal_jets3\library\My\Controller\Plugin\ModuleLayoutLoader.php on line 7

Extract from plugin:

class My_Controller_Plugin_ModuleLayoutLoader extends Zend_Controller_Plugin_Abstract
{
    public function preDispatch(Zend_Controller_Request_Abstract $request)
    {
        $config = Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getParam('bootstrap')->getOptions();

Any help on how to include plugins in testing will be helpful. Thanks!

Edit @Gordon It's not really that obvious to me. Doing a var_dump of:

var_dump(Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getParam('bootstrap'));
die();

gives me:

object(Bootstrap)[3]
      protected '_appNamespace' => boolean false
      protected '_resourceLoader' => null
      protected '_application' => 

which says 'object' to me; and halfway down the dump is:

  protected '_options' => 

So this confuses me - I'm not familiar how to correctly phpunit test this object.

Answer 1

to set up PHPUnit in Zend environment, you have to fire your Zend bootstrap inside your phpunit bootstrap. After this, you still have a bootstrap object in your application. And your errormessage said that Zend_Controller_Front::getInstance()->getParam('bootstrap') is NULL. Are you sure, that you've debugged at the right place?