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Bond Jerome
Bond Jerome

Reputation: 105

Laravel factory not returning correct object data

I've got the following factory in Laravel 5.7, when invoking it nothing is being returned:

<?php

use Faker\Generator as Faker;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

$factory->define(App\Record::class, function (Faker $faker) {
    return [
        "name" => $faker->name,
    ];
});

Whereas my model is:

<?php
namespace App;
use App\Product;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;

class Record extends Model
{
    protected $table = "records";

    protected $fillable = ["name"];

    function __construct()
    {
        parent::__construct();
    }
}

And I'm invoking the factory here:

<?php

namespace Tests\Feature;

use Tests\TestCase;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithoutMiddleware;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseTransactions;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\RefreshDatabase;

use App;
use App\Product;
use App\Record;
use App\User;

class RecordTest extends TestCase
{
    use RefreshDatabase;
    use WithoutMiddleware;

    /** @test */
    public function when_record_page_for_existing_record_is_accessed_then_a_product_is_displayed()
    {
        //$record = factory(App\Record::class)->make();
        $record = factory(App\Record::class)->create();
       echo "\n\n$record->name\n\n";

    }
}

when printing

$record->name

I'm getting nothing, not null, no empty string, just nothing. What seems to be the problem? If I save whatever is generated by the factory into a variable instead of returning it right away I can see that name is being populated, but after returning it nothing happens, it's gone

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3003

Answers (2)

Joseph Silber
Joseph Silber

Reputation: 219920

This piece of code is the problematic part:

function __construct()
{
    parent::__construct();
}

You're not passing the attributes to the parent constructor. Eloquent accepts the model's attributes in the constructor, but your overriding constructor doesn't accept them, nor pass them up to the parent.

Change it to this:

function __construct(array $attributes = [])
{
    parent::__construct($attributes);
}

BTW, you're overriding Eloquent's constructor, but you're not doing anything in there. Are you sure you actually want to override it?

Upvotes: 15

Duy Nguyen
Duy Nguyen

Reputation: 1005

By default phpunit won't print your echo.

To print it, please use phpunit -v

Upvotes: 1

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