Leaving this here as I just spent an annoying hour trying to figure out why my tests were failing.
- CakePHP Version: 4.2.5
- Platform and Target: Ubuntu 20.04, Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu), Mysql 8.0.23-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, PHPUnit 8.5.15
What I was doing
I was running CakePHP 4 tests with vendors/bin/phpunit
What I did before I did what I was doing
I sucessfully created some fixtures with bin/cake bake fixture Menus -r -n 100
and bin/cake bake fixture Help -r -n 100
What happened when I did what I was doing
Error is raised
Possibly related to Cake\Database\Exception\DatabaseException: "SQLSTATE[42S02]: Base table or view not found: 1146 Table 'dbnamehere.menus' doesn't exist
How I figured out what was causing the problem
I put a die statement before the tearDown() method in my MenusControllerTest.php so it would die before it cleared the tables and I could see the problem.
From the image below you can tell that the menus table and the help table is being incorrectly set to helps and menuses
What causes it
CakePHP tries to guess the correct table name from the class so in the case of fixtures named with class names of HelpFixture and MenusFixture it will do the following.
<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Cake\Utility\Inflector;
echo Inflector::tableize('Help') . "\n";
echo Inflector::tableize('Menus') . "\n"
Output
helps
menuses
The Fix
In your Fixture set a table property and the test table will have the name you specify:
/**
* MenusFixture
*/
class MenusFixture extends TestFixture
{
public $table = "menus";
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