A closer failure

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I’ve updated the Route Pages plugin moving the core function forward. To cope with the need to persist meta information about each route and asynchronously retrieve that information later I’ve added a class extending the WP_Routing_PersistableRoute to the project. Being the class tailored to the plugin needs I’ve added it to the plugin and not to the wp-routing package that allows it all.

Testing, testing and a close failure

I’m really developing the plugin in a TDD fashion and sharpening the tools at my disposal along the way, that makes the development move along not that fast I guess.
Without much fuss and introduction this is the first real test approaching the result I need:

<?php
use AcceptanceTester;

class PageGenerationCest
{
    /**
     * @test
     * it should create a route page if a persisted route meta info is in the db
     */
    public function it_should_create_a_route_page_if_a_persisted_route_meta_info_is_in_the_db(AcceptanceTester $I)
    {
        /**
         * Prepare
         */
        $routeMeta = mysql_escape_string(serialize(array('route-one' => array('title' => 'Route one', 'permalink' => 'route-one', 'generate' => 'page'))));
        $data = array('option_name' => RoutePages_GeneratingRoute::OPTION_ID, 'option_value' => $routeMeta, 'autoload' => 'yes');
        $I->haveInDatabase('rp_options', $data);

        // on activation and anytime page generation is triggered the plugin will call this method
        // on this class so I'm not calling the whole plugin to test the functionality
        $pageManager = new RoutePages_PageManager();

        /**
         * Execute
         */
        $pageManager->createRoutePages();

        /**
         * Verify
         */
        $I->loginAsAdmin();
        $I->amOnPagesPage();
        $I->see('Route one', '.page-title');
    }
}

I’m using Codeception and the WP Browser extension and although the test is failing I will move into functional and unit testing from here to narrow down the problem and will hence call the actual failure a small victory.