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ondrovic
ondrovic

Reputation: 1175

PHP Unit Assert of response that contains how to

Attempting to write unit testing for some ui validation messages that come back formatted like the following and completely lost

Unprocessable Content
Cache-Control: no-cache, private
Content-Type:  application/json
Date:          Fri, 31 Dec 2021 15:55:48 GMT

{"errors":{"assets":["filename must have a value"],"questions":[],"targeting_sets":[],"lists":[]}}

there error response gets generated using the following function

private function errorResponse()
{
    return response()->json([
        'errors' => $this->errors,
    ], Response::HTTP_UNPROCESSABLE_ENTITY);
}

Would appreciate any help with how to properly write the test so if it response has filename must have a value it will pass

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2380

Answers (2)

Joey Rich
Joey Rich

Reputation: 439

If you are testing a rendered view in Laravel and want to assert the response contains some text, you could use "assertSee", something like this:

<?php

namespace Tests;

use Tests\TestCase;

class MyTest extends TestCase
{
    public function test_my_feature()
    {
        $featureResponse = $this->withSession(['abc' => '123'])
            ->post('/my-feature-route', ['requestParam1' => 'hello']);

        $featureResponse->assertStatus(200);

        $featureResponse->assertSee('Your changes were successfully saved.');
    }
}

Upvotes: 0

D1__1
D1__1

Reputation: 1357

You should be able to check if the session has a specific error using the assertSessionHasErrors method.

$response->assertSessionHasErrors([
    'assets' => 'filename must have a value'
]);

As other comments have pointed out: you are returning a custom json response. That means that the method above will not work. Use assertJsonPath instead.

$response->assertJsonPath("errors.assets", "filename must have a value");

As matiaslauriti suggested, the best-practise to do validation in Laravel is through a FormRequest or Validator. That will also allow you to write your unit tests in a less-complicated manner.

Upvotes: 2

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