Fixture Factory & CakeDC/Users

[Petrucheqa]

Recently I've faced an issue trying to use plugins CakeDC/Users & Fixture Factories.

My project is running CakePHP 4.3 and the latest versions for both plugins.

I've found that if you are using a CustomUser class that extends CakeDC/Users class and that you try to generate a CustomUserFactory it will throw this error :

App\Test\TestCase\Controller\BankingProposalControllerTest::testViewProjectProposals
TypeError: class_exists(): Argument #1 ($class) must be of type string, null given

/app/vendor/cakedc/users/src/Model/Entity/User.php:113
/app/vendor/cakedc/users/src/Model/Entity/User.php:100
/app/vendor/cakedc/users/src/Model/Entity/User.php:66
/app/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Datasource/EntityTrait.php:260
/app/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/ORM/Marshaller.php:222
/app/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/ORM/Table.php:2742
/app/vendor/vierge-noire/cakephp-fixture-factories/src/Factory/DataCompiler.php:231
/app/vendor/vierge-noire/cakephp-fixture-factories/src/Factory/DataCompiler.php:186
/app/vendor/vierge-noire/cakephp-fixture-factories/src/Factory/DataCompiler.php:170
/app/vendor/vierge-noire/cakephp-fixture-factories/src/Factory/BaseFactory.php:269
/app/vendor/vierge-noire/cakephp-fixture-factories/src/Factory/BaseFactory.php:224
/app/tests/TestCase/Controller/BankingProposalControllerTest.php:25

To fix it, I should load the users config file in my tests/bootstrap.php :

Configure::load('users');

I dont understand why I'm forced to do that way. I believed that since Cake 3.7 or nearly you should load plugins in Application.php and it will load the plugin configuration in bootstrap files ?

Can someone explain it to me because I don't seem to understand 🤯

[pabloelcolombiano]

Hi @Petrucheqa,

thanks for the input. The answer lies in the stack trace :-)
Application.php's bootstrap will indeed load the configuration. But you probably call the factory before the Application gets loaded.
In your factory's default template, you probably have a default password value. The setter in Entity/User.php:66 will thus be triggered.
Therefor, the config is not loaded yet by the time you call the factory.

Since this config is vital for the UserFactory, I would load the config, if not loaded, in the initialize() method of the factory.

If this is not clear, you can paste your test, and I'll pinpoint the explanation above.