laravel 5.1 - phpUnit class cannot be converted into string exception

Question

I am dabbling with PHPUnit that comes with the Laravel 5.1. I have create a php file under the tests folder with the name 'UserTest.php'. The content of the file is as follows

<?php

use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithoutMiddleware;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseTransactions;

class UserTest extends TestCase
{
    /**
     * A basic test example.
     *
     * @return void
     */



        public function testRegistration()
    {
         echo $this->post('/user/register', ['password' => 'mypass',
                                        'name' => 'Steve Robinson',
                                        'email' => '[email protected]']);
             /*->seeJson([
                 'success' => true,
             ]);*/


    }

In the server side I have the following code:

    public function store()
    {
        $credentials = Input::only('name','email', 'password');

   try {
       $user = User::create($credentials);
   } catch (Exception $e) {
       return Response::json(['error' => 'User already exists.'], HttpResponse::HTTP_CONFLICT);
   }

   $token = JWTAuth::fromUser($user);

   return Response::json(compact('token'));
    }

Whenever I run the command 'phpunit' . It throws an error saying object of class UserTest cannot be converted into string. Please tell me what am I doing wrong here.

rypskar · Accepted Answer · 2016-08-12 07:04:28Z

1

$this->post() and $this->get() returns $this so you are trying to convert it to a string by using echo, you have to use $this->response->getContent() to get the content of the response.

answered Aug 12, 2016 at 7:04

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logeeks Over a year ago

Thanks, that worked fine .Can you please tell me how to use seeJson as well when I call ->seeJson(['success' => true, ]); it is saying 'invalid argument supplied for ' foreach()'' . @rypskar

rypskar Over a year ago

I haven't used seeJson, so not sure what the problem might be. When returning json I normally use $response = json_decode($this->response->getContent()); and use assertEquals on the different properties to verify that I got the right data

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