[Phpmyadmin-devel] SQLValidator

[Dieter Adriaenssens]

2013/7/3 Ayush Chaudhary <ayushchd at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a reason why validation.lib.php is not a class with public static
> method? Is it okay to convert it to a class with all methods' access
> specifier as public static?

Did you mean the PMA_SQLValidator class in
libraries/sqlvalidator.class.php? I didn't find a validation.lib.php,
or something similar, in the PMA codebase, that contains a class.
(libraries/config/validate.lib.php doesn't contain a class)

Assuming you mean PMA_SQLValidator, this is not a static class, ie. it
has to be instanciated (= turned into an object), so it can't have
static methods. [1]
To use (or test) this class, you have to create an instance and call
the methods from that instance, fe.

$validator = new PMA_SQLValidator();

$validator->start();

(see libraries/sqlvalidator.lib.php for an example on how to
instanciate and use the PMA_SQLValidator class)

BTW : Testing a class instance can sometimes be tricky, especially if
it communicates with, or uses another class. If this is the case, you
will have to use Mock objects [0] and Stubs to simulate the expected
behaviour of the other class.

I hope this helps.

[0] http://phpunit.de/manual/3.0/en/mock-objects.html
[1] explanation of instances and static members. It's explained for
Java so the syntax doesn't match 100% with PHP, but the concept is
analogous : http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/javaOO/classvars.html

Kind regards,

Dieter


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Kind regards,

Dieter Adriaenssens