StringMatchesFormatDescription
        
        extends Constraint
    
    
            
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Properties
- $formatDescription : string
Methods
- __construct() : mixed
- count() : int
- Counts the number of constraint elements.
- evaluate() : bool|null
- Evaluates the constraint for parameter $other.
- toString() : string
- additionalFailureDescription() : string
- Return additional failure description where needed.
- exporter() : Exporter
- fail() : never
- Throws an exception for the given compared value and test description.
- failureDescription() : string
- Returns the description of the failure.
- failureDescriptionInContext() : string
- Returns the description of the failure when this constraint appears in context of an $operator expression.
- matches() : bool
- Evaluates the constraint for parameter $other. Returns true if the constraint is met, false otherwise.
- reduce() : self
- Reduces the sub-expression starting at $this by skipping degenerate sub-expression and returns first descendant constraint that starts a non-reducible sub-expression.
- toStringInContext() : string
- Returns a custom string representation of the constraint object when it appears in context of an $operator expression.
- valueToTypeStringFragment() : string
- convertNewlines() : string
- differ() : Differ
- regularExpressionForFormatDescription() : string
Properties
$formatDescription read-only
    private
        string
    $formatDescription
    
    
    
    
Methods
__construct()
    public
                    __construct(string $formatDescription) : mixed
    Parameters
- $formatDescription : string
count()
Counts the number of constraint elements.
    public
                    count() : int
    Return values
intevaluate()
Evaluates the constraint for parameter $other.
    public
                    evaluate(mixed $other[, string $description = '' ][, bool $returnResult = false ]) : bool|null
    If $returnResult is set to false (the default), an exception is thrown in case of a failure. null is returned otherwise.
If $returnResult is true, the result of the evaluation is returned as a boolean value instead: true in case of success, false in case of a failure.
Parameters
- $other : mixed
- $description : string = ''
- $returnResult : bool = false
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bool|nulltoString()
    public
                    toString() : string
    Return values
stringadditionalFailureDescription()
Return additional failure description where needed.
    protected
                    additionalFailureDescription(mixed $other) : string
    The function can be overridden to provide additional failure information like a diff
Parameters
- $other : mixed
Return values
stringexporter()
    protected
                    exporter() : Exporter
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Exporterfail()
Throws an exception for the given compared value and test description.
    protected
                    fail(mixed $other, string $description[, ComparisonFailure|null $comparisonFailure = null ]) : never
    Parameters
- $other : mixed
- $description : string
- $comparisonFailure : ComparisonFailure|null = null
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neverfailureDescription()
Returns the description of the failure.
    protected
                    failureDescription(mixed $other) : string
    The beginning of failure messages is "Failed asserting that" in most cases. This method should return the second part of that sentence.
To provide additional failure information additionalFailureDescription can be used.
Parameters
- $other : mixed
Return values
stringfailureDescriptionInContext()
Returns the description of the failure when this constraint appears in context of an $operator expression.
    protected
                    failureDescriptionInContext(Operator $operator, mixed $role, mixed $other) : string
    The purpose of this method is to provide meaningful failure description in context of operators such as LogicalNot. Native PHPUnit constraints are supported out of the box by LogicalNot, but externally developed ones had no way to provide correct messages in this context.
The method shall return empty string, when it does not handle customization by itself.
Parameters
- $operator : Operator
- $role : mixed
- $other : mixed
Return values
stringmatches()
Evaluates the constraint for parameter $other. Returns true if the constraint is met, false otherwise.
    protected
                    matches(mixed $other) : bool
    Parameters
- $other : mixed
Return values
boolreduce()
Reduces the sub-expression starting at $this by skipping degenerate sub-expression and returns first descendant constraint that starts a non-reducible sub-expression.
    protected
                    reduce() : self
    Returns $this for terminal constraints and for operators that start non-reducible sub-expression, or the nearest descendant of $this that starts a non-reducible sub-expression.
A constraint expression may be modelled as a tree with non-terminal nodes (operators) and terminal nodes. For example:
 LogicalOr           (operator, non-terminal)
 + LogicalAnd        (operator, non-terminal)
 | + IsType('int')   (terminal)
 | + GreaterThan(10) (terminal)
 + LogicalNot        (operator, non-terminal)
   + IsType('array') (terminal)
A degenerate sub-expression is a part of the tree, that effectively does not contribute to the evaluation of the expression it appears in. An example of degenerate sub-expression is a BinaryOperator constructed with single operand or nested BinaryOperators, each with single operand. An expression involving a degenerate sub-expression is equivalent to a reduced expression with the degenerate sub-expression removed, for example
 LogicalAnd          (operator)
 + LogicalOr         (degenerate operator)
 | + LogicalAnd      (degenerate operator)
 |   + IsType('int') (terminal)
 + GreaterThan(10)   (terminal)
is equivalent to
 LogicalAnd          (operator)
 + IsType('int')     (terminal)
 + GreaterThan(10)   (terminal)
because the subexpression
 + LogicalOr
   + LogicalAnd
     + -
is degenerate. Calling reduce() on the LogicalOr object above, as well as on LogicalAnd, shall return the IsType('int') instance.
Other specific reductions can be implemented, for example cascade of LogicalNot operators
 + LogicalNot
   + LogicalNot
     +LogicalNot
      + IsTrue
can be reduced to
 LogicalNot
 + IsTrue
Return values
selftoStringInContext()
Returns a custom string representation of the constraint object when it appears in context of an $operator expression.
    protected
                    toStringInContext(Operator $operator, mixed $role) : string
    The purpose of this method is to provide meaningful descriptive string in context of operators such as LogicalNot. Native PHPUnit constraints are supported out of the box by LogicalNot, but externally developed ones had no way to provide correct strings in this context.
The method shall return empty string, when it does not handle customization by itself.
Parameters
- $operator : Operator
- $role : mixed
Return values
stringvalueToTypeStringFragment()
    protected
                    valueToTypeStringFragment(mixed $value) : string
    Parameters
- $value : mixed
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stringconvertNewlines()
    private
                    convertNewlines(string $text) : string
    Parameters
- $text : string
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stringdiffer()
    private
                    differ() : Differ
    Return values
DifferregularExpressionForFormatDescription()
    private
                    regularExpressionForFormatDescription(string $string) : string
    Parameters
- $string : string