How to assert array value but not strict?

Question

How can we assert some of the array's property values which contain the expected object values?

My code below is working okay, but it checks all array property values. I want to ask if there's a way we can check only some of it.

$dataToBeTested = [
    'name' => 'Johnny',
    'address' => 'Somewhere',
    'age' => 21,
    'card_no' => 13331577121,
    'rep_no' => 441546661,
    'status' => 'in-progress',
    'created_at' => '2022-07-31T10:05:27.011000Z',
    'updated_at' => '2022-07-31T10:05:27.011000Z',
];

$expectedPropValue = [
    'name' => 'Johnny',
    'address' => 'Somewhere',
    'age' => 21,
];

as expected it will return fail, since expectedPropValue has some missing properties.

$this->assertEquals($dataToBeTested, $expectedPropValue);

Goal is something like this,

$this->assertSomeOfIt($dataToBeTested, $expectedPropValue); // return true

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 31 '22 at 14:41

You are looking for assertArraySubset, Which it's been deprecated with the newer version of PHPUnit. As mentioned here https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/issues/3494. But you can always introduce your approach and use it for your project. Or you can also try this package https://packagist.org/packages/dms/phpunit-arraysubset-asserts. which gives you what you need

self::assertArraySubset($expectedSubset, $content, true);

How to assert array value but not strict?

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