Generate DateTime objects?

[letharion]

I quickly hacked up this to support testing my class that uses DateTime's extensively. Could it be of interest to others? The function can of course just be copy-pasted straight into the argument generation, but I figured this might help someone else. If only as an issue that be found through searching.

class GeneratorWithDates extends Gen
{
    /**
     * Generate DateTime objects
     *
     * @return Generator
     */
    public static function dates($from = 1000, $to = 3000)
    {
        return self::choose($from, to)->map(
            function ($i) {
                return new DateTime($i);
            }
        );
    }
}

[djmattyg007]

You should default to creating DateTimeImmutable objects.

[letharion]

I'd be happy to do so, if there's interesting in merging some code. In my particular use case though, I'm passing my dates on to a library which requires DateTimes specifically.

[djmattyg007]

Are you able to share the name of the library you're dealing with?

[letharion]

Sure, it's janephp. This discussion made me dig into the code though, and it looks like there's a config option for generating Immutable dates. I'm gonna give that a go.

[drupol]

I just stumbled upon this amazing library and this particular issue.

I'm working on a type generator here: https://github.com/loophp/typed-generators

It can generate any kind of typed value and shapes, while being completely understood by static analysis tools like PHPStan and PSalm.

Maybe this will help you.