Recommended way to test Carbon in expect

[JasonTheAdams]

Hi! 👋

I was recently trying to do something like this:

// Not same instance
expect($token)
    ->expiration->toBe($expirationDate);

// Doesn't seem to know how to handle this
expect($token)
    ->expiration->format('U')->toBe($expirationDate->format->('U'));

// Works
assertSame($expirationDate->format('U'), $token->expiration->format('U'));

I like the expect() syntax, but there doesn't seem to be a suggested way of working with dates (and Carbon, specifically) in Pest. How are others handling this?

Thanks!

[nunomaduro]

cc @lukeraymonddowning

[lukeraymonddowning]

Isn't this nested HOE? As far as I can tell, this will "just work" in the next release 🎉

[JasonTheAdams]

Yeah, I saw that PR and wondered if this fell into that. I'd certainly be happy to test it once the release comes out!

[lukeraymonddowning]

It has been released with 1.7

[JasonTheAdams]

Works with 1.7! 🎉

[lukeraymonddowning]

Any reason you can't use toEqual in the first example?

[nunomaduro]

Fell free to release already if you want.

[JasonTheAdams]

Any reason you can't use toEqual in the first example?

Equals with Carbon instances can be finicky. I've found the unix timestamp to be a more reliable comparison. 🤷‍♂️

[clemblanco]

Just to clarify, we still have to use something like:

expect($someDateTime->unix())->toBe($expectedDateTime->unix());

and

expect($someDateTime)->toBe($theExpectedDateTime);

will never work, right?

[fabio-ivona]

Not natively

Just use this https://github.com/defstudio/pest-plugin-laravel-expectations