andReturnArgument()

[downsider]

Hi

In my experience with mockery, a number of times I have found myself needing to return an argument that was passed to a mocked method. In such cases, I have done something like this:

$mock->shouldReceive("myMethod")->andReturnUsing(
    function($arg){
        return $arg;
    });

This feels really clunky and boilerplatey, but is something commonly required for mocks of classes that do normalisation or follow the decorator pattern.

Seeing as PHPUnit has had this functionality for a long time, I feel we should introduce it into Mockery too. I propose we add the following syntax to enable returning arguments

$mock->shouldReceive("myMethod")->andReturnArgument(2);
    // where "2" is the index of the argument to return

Do you think this is something that can be implemented?

[davedevelopment]

I don't see why not, fire away 👍

[downsider]

Hi @davedevelopment I've submitted a PR for this. Could you have a look at the comment I raised please? I'm interested in your opinion on this point.

[robertbasic]

Closing as #1001 was merged.

Thank you @downsider!