Notice: Undefined index: _SERVER in PHPUnit/Util/Filter.php on line 69

[ValerchikV]

I run tests and got this error:
Notice: Undefined index: _SERVER in /usr/share/pear/PHPUnit/Util/Filter.php on line 69

Full output dump:
phpunit --bootstrap=modules/unittest/bootstrap.php modules/unittest/tests.php
PHPUnit 3.7.8 by Sebastian Bergmann.

.............................S..........SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 61 / 1299 ( 4%)
SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS 122 / 1299 ( 9%)
SSSS......................................................... 183 / 1299 ( 14%)
............................................................. 244 / 1299 ( 18%)
.SSSSSS............SS........................................ 305 / 1299 ( 23%)
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..............................................F.............S 427 / 1299 ( 32%)
.SS.......................................................... 488 / 1299 ( 37%)
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............................................................. 671 / 1299 ( 51%)
.........................S.................................SS 732 / 1299 ( 56%)
SSS..I....................................................... 793 / 1299 ( 61%)
............................................................. 854 / 1299 ( 65%)
.....................................F....................... 915 / 1299 ( 70%)
............................................................. 976 / 1299 ( 75%)
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..................

Time: 34 seconds, Memory: 22.50Mb

There were 2 failures:

1. Kohana_DebugTest::test_dump with data set junit xml log for phpt tests does not appear to work #6 ('foo▒' . "\0" . 'bar▒±10', 128, 10, 'string(10) "foobar±10"')

Notice: Undefined index: _SERVER in /usr/share/pear/PHPUnit/Util/Filter.php on line 69
Failed asserting that two strings are equal.
--- Expected
+++ Actual
@@ @@
-'string(10) "foobar±10"'
+'string(0) ""'

/mnt/hgfs/ipnew/system/tests/kohana/DebugTest.php:124
/mnt/hgfs/ipnew/modules/unittest/classes/Kohana/Unittest/TestSuite.php:51
/usr/bin/phpunit:46

2. Kohana_UTF8Test::test_clean with data set Mocking class Imagick of pecl/imagick 3.0.0 fails with PHPUnit 3.4.2 and 3.5 beta1 #3 ('▒', '')

Notice: Undefined index: _SERVER in /usr/share/pear/PHPUnit/Util/Filter.php on line 69
Failed asserting that false is identical to ''.

/mnt/hgfs/ipnew/system/tests/kohana/UTF8Test.php:41
/mnt/hgfs/ipnew/modules/unittest/classes/Kohana/Unittest/TestSuite.php:51
/usr/bin/phpunit:46

FAILURES!
Tests: 1299, Assertions: 2749, Failures: 2, Incomplete: 1, Skipped: 104.

[sebastianbergmann]

Are you unsetting $GLOBALS['_SERVER'] in your code?

[ValerchikV]

I did text search of all usages of $GLOBALS['_SERVER'] and dont found anything.

var_dump($GLOBALS['_SERVER']); Giving me NULL also

[acidtv]

I noticed ValerchikV runs Kohana. I have the same problem trying to unittest kohana.

[acidtv]

Think this can be closed here. Kohana messes up the $GLOBALS array in CoreTest.php:110

$GLOBALS = array('hackers' => 'foobar','name' => array('','',''), '_POST' => array());

[hkdobrev]

Sorry comment on this unrelated issue, but I have a quick fix for anyone in the thread. Just disable the core Kohana tests from the unittest config with 'system' => FALSE and be happy :)

[g105b]

This thread turned up at number 1 search result when I searched for Undefined index: _SERVER, which is what I was experiencing while writing some tests earlier.

I wanted to clean up the modifications to _SERVER that my tests made in order to test the code I'm writing which relies upon indices such as REQUEST_URI, REQUEST_METHOD and SERVER_PROTOCOL, for instance. In the tearDown method, I simply unset($_SERVER) to allow all my test cases to have the same starting point (so I thought).

Here's how I am currently getting round this issue, in case it helps others who are searching for the same thing:

<?php
class Example_Test extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase {

private $_SERVER;

public function setUp() {
    // Store a copy of the superglobal on the testcase object.
    $this->_SERVER = $_SERVER;
    // ...
}

public function tearDown() {
    // ...
    // Restore the original superglobal its pre-test state.
    $_SERVER = $this->_SERVER;
}

[sebastianbergmann]

By default, PHPUnit runs your tests in a way where changes to global and super-global variables ($GLOBALS, $_ENV, $_POST, $_GET, $_COOKIE, $_SERVER, $_FILES, $_REQUEST) do not affect other tests.

See http://phpunit.de/manual/current/en/fixtures.html#fixtures.global-state for details.