Unit Testing in Laravel: Error when setting the Currently Authenticated User

Question

In my Unit Test in Laravel I am setting the currently authenticated user with the code below. This is exactly how Laravel documented it on their website. I use the default User model which Laravel provide.

public function testLoggedInUserCanCreateCat() {
        Route::enableFilters();
        $user = new User(array(
            'name' => 'john'
        ));
        $this->be($user);
        $this->call('GET', '/cats/create');
        $this->assertResponseOk();
    }

For some reason, when I run phpunit in SSH, I get the following error:

1) GlobalTest::testLoggedInUserCanCreateCat
Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\MassAssignmentException: name

Does anyone know whats goes wrong here? I searched for a couple of hours on the internet, but couldn't find any help..

Laurence · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-30 10:04:31Z

1

The problem is in the error:

MassAssignmentException: name

You are trying to mass assign the variable name - but your model does not allow this.

Change your User model from this:

protected $fillable = [];

to this:

protected $fillable = ['name'];

You can read more about mass assignment here.

answered Jul 30, 2014 at 10:04

Laurence

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