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Rohan
Rohan

Reputation: 13811

POST request in laravel 5 with token via PhpUnit?

I am trying to test my Laravel APIs using phpunit and I am using the $this->call(); method to perform calls and see if they are working fine.

I am also JWT for authentication and hence have to pass my token with it. Simple GET requests are easy:

$response = $this->call('GET', 'users?token=' . $this->token);

But when I need to create a new user or any resource for that matter, I am trying to do:

$response = $this->call('POST', 'users/?token=' . $this->token, $user);

But it is giving me a redirect like so:

<!DOCTYPE html>\n
<html>\n
    <head>\n
        <meta charset="UTF-8" />\n
        <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=http://localhost" />\n
\n
        <title>Redirecting to http://localhost</title>\n
    </head>\n
    <body>\n
        Redirecting to <a href="http://localhost">http://localhost</a>.\n
    </body>\n
</html>

Now when I did some digging, I came across this:

Redirect 302 on Laravel POST request

And the API for the call method looks like so:

$response = $this->call($method, $uri, $parameters, $cookies, $files, $server, $content);

So I tried this:

$response = $this->call('POST', 'users/?token=' . $this->token, $user, [], [], [], ['Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded']);

But I am still getting a redirect. What am I missing?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1609

Answers (1)

Hoosk
Hoosk

Reputation: 46

Why don't try something like this?

$token = ‘your token’;
$method = ‘POST’;
$params = [];
$response = $this->call($method,'http://api.api.app/api/',
    $params,[],[],['HTTP_Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . $token],[]);

$this->response = $response;
$this->seeStatusCode(200);

Update:

You have CORS enabled in Laravel? Maybe this is the reason.

Use the header: 'HTTP_X_REQUESTED_WITH' => 'XMLHttpRequest'

Or try laravel-cors package.

Upvotes: 2

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