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cspray/stream-buffer-intercept
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A test utility to help capture output sent to stream resources.

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Stream Buffer Intercept
=======================

[](#stream-buffer-intercept)

A PHP testing utility designed to capture stream output and facilitate writing unit tests for systems that require writing to streams.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require --dev cspray/stream-buffer-intercept
```

Usage Guide
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[](#usage-guide)

There are scenarios where you may want to unit test some piece of code that writes to a stream. An example might be where you're writing tests to confirm log messages sent to `stdout` or `stderr`. The `Cspray\StreamBufferIntercept\StreamBuffer` class allows you to easily capture output sent to these streams, and others, to easily assert your expectations.

Let's take a look at a quick code example.

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