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makasprzak
makasprzak

Reputation: 5220

Default Mime type in Rails 5 controller tests

I know that starting with Rails 5.0 I can add as: :json attribute to send the test HTTP request with application/json content type like this:

post :create, params: { account_id: 123, user: { ... } }, as: :json

Is there a way to configure this behavior globally, so that I don't need to specify the content type on each test?

I'm upgrading from Rails 4.2 and realised that without this attribute all my requests are treated as URL encoded forms, including my payload being URL encoded. This is causing many failures when I run my test suite and for some reason was working just fine in Rails 4.2.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 495

Answers (2)

max
max

Reputation: 102036

You could always just override ActionDispatch::Integration::RequestHelpers#process.

module JSONRequestHelper
  alias_method :original_process, :process
  def process(method, path, **args)
    original_process(method, path, args.merge(as: :json))
  end
end 

require 'test_helper'

class ApiTest < ActionDispatch::IntegrationTest
  include JSONRequestHelper
end

Upvotes: 1

Jonathan Duarte
Jonathan Duarte

Reputation: 778

You can specify in your routes the default format for them, like so:

defaults format: :json do
  resources :photos
end

as can be seen here: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#defining-defaults

You can always use a before_action as well:

before_action :set_format

def set_format
  request.format = 'json'
end

Upvotes: 1

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