Mockery not being able to count method calls on a Facade

Question

There's a problem with a simple test which is not passing at all. I have an action within the controller :

/**
 * @Get("/parse")
 * @param Dispatcher $dispatcher
 * @return string
 */
public function parse(){
    $xml_file = public_path()."/dummy.xml";
    //File::get($xml_file); Tried this as well
    $file = $this->file->get($xml_file);
    return $file;
}

And on the test I have a method like :

/**
 * A basic functional test example.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function testBasicExample(){
        File::shouldReceive("get")->once();
        $this->call('GET', '/parse');
}

And on Laravel documentation, they say that each Facade can be Mocked directly, without instantiating it, but the test is never passing, I'm getting an exception :

Mockery\Exception\InvalidCountException: Method get() from Mockery_0 should be called exactly 1 times but called 0 times.

PS : I have Laravel 5 and on Test Class I have the tearDown method just in case you're wondering.

Answer 1

Finally found a solution.

Instead of using the File, facade, I did inject the FileSystem depency through the constructor, and Mocked that on unit test, and passed the mocked object into IoC Container, and only that way worked, otherwise on Laravel 5, Mocking Facades is not working, shouldReceive() is not keeping count as we've been told by Laravel Docs.

Kind Regards