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zend framework 2.4 "Zend\ServiceManager\Exception\ServiceNotFoundException: Zend\ServiceManager\ServiceManager::get was unable to fetch or create an instance for ApplicationConfig"

We had some controller tests in our test cases and the following error was thrown, after we updated to zend framework 2.4.


Zend\ServiceManager\Exception\ServiceNotFoundException: Zend\ServiceManager\ServiceManager::get was unable to fetch or create an instance for ApplicationConfig

/vendor/zendframework/zendframework/library/Zend/ServiceManager/ServiceManager.php:555
/vendor/zendframework/zendframework/library/Zend/Mvc/Service/ModuleManagerFactory.php:41
/vendor/zendframework/zendframework/library/Zend/ServiceManager/ServiceManager.php:939
/vendor/zendframework/zendframework/library/Zend/ServiceManager/ServiceManager.php:1097
/vendor/zendframework/zendframework/library/Zend/ServiceManager/ServiceManager.php:638
/vendor/zendframework/zendframework/library/Zend/ServiceManager/ServiceManager.php:598
/vendor/zendframework/zendframework/library/Zend/ServiceManager/ServiceManager.php:530
/vendor/zendframework/zendframework/library/Zend/Mvc/Application.php:253
/vendor/zendframework/zendframework/library/Zend/Test/PHPUnit/Controller/AbstractControllerTestCase.php:164
/vendor/zendframework/zendframework/library/Zend/Test/PHPUnit/Controller/AbstractControllerTestCase.php:73
//MyControllerTest.php:124
"MyControllerTest" extends "Zend\Test\PHPUnit\Controller\AbstractHttpControllerTestCase". What we did to solve the problem was adding the following lines of code in our "setUp" method.

$applicationConfigurationPath = __DIR__ . str_repeat('/..', ) . '/config/application.config.php';
if (!is_file($applicationConfigurationPath)) {
    $message = 'application configuration needed and not found in path "' . $applicationConfigurationPath . '"';

    $this->fail($message);
}
$applicationConfiguration = require $applicationConfigurationPath;
unset($applicationConfiguration['module_listener_options']['config_glob_paths']);
$applicationConfiguration['modules'] = array();

$this->setApplicationConfig($applicationConfiguration);

Thats it, hope it helps.