Call to a member function connect() on null

[Mike Karthauser]

I'm developing a package that uses Redis.

when I add the following

<env name="REDIS_CLIENT" value="mock"/>
to phpunit.xml I get the following error:

Symfony\Component\Debug\Exception\FatalThrowableError: Call to a member function connect() on null

/var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Redis/RedisManager.php:109
/var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Redis/RedisManager.php:90
/var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Redis/RedisManager.php:263
/var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/Facades/Facade.php:261

package dependencies are as follows:

  "require": {
    "php": "^7.2",
    "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^6.5|^7.0.1",
    "predis/predis": "^1.1"
  },
  "require-dev": {
    "friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer": "^2.16",
    "josiasmontag/laravel-redis-mock": "^1.3",
    "orchestra/testbench": "~3.8.6 || ^4.8 || ^5.2 || ^6.0",
    "phpunit/phpunit": "^7.5"
  },

In my class triggering the errror i am doing the following:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Redis as RedisCache;

    /**
     * @var RedisCache
     */
    public $redisCache;

    public function __construct()
    {
        $this->redisCache = new RedisCache();
    }

    /**
     * @param string $key
     *
     * @throws Exception
     *
     * @return array|null
     */
    public function get(string $key): ?array
    {
        $contents = $this->redisCache::get($key);

        if (!$contents) {
            return null;
        }

        return json_decode($contents, true);
    }

can i get some advice on best way to implement package?

[Matthew Devine]

I had the same issue and I had to make sure that for my test suite the Lunaweb\RedisMock\Providers\RedisMockServiceProvider was getting loaded in. Otherwise laravel didn't have the custom connector setup to pair the mock client

[Mike Karthauser]

@matthewdevine thanks. That did the trick.