Laravel 5.5 Testing JSON header doesn't work

Question

I have a problem in testing Laravel 5.5. I need to send a Bearer Token in TEST HEADER, but doesn't work

public function testAuthCheckinvalidToken()
    {
        $response = $this->withHeaders([
            'Accept' => 'application/json',
            'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
            'Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . $this->token,
        ])->json('GET', 'auth/check');
    ...
    }

When I dd($response), only the default HEADERS is set:

#headers: array:5 [
            "cache-control" => array:1 [
              0 => "no-cache, private"
            ]
            "date" => array:1 [
              0 => "Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:48:27 GMT"
            ]
            "content-type" => array:1 [
              0 => "application/json"
            ]
            "x-ratelimit-limit" => array:1 [
              0 => 60
            ]
            "x-ratelimit-remaining" => array:1 [
              0 => 59
            ]
          ]

My HEADERS doesn't appear. I think that I am right

Marcin Nabiałek · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-21 19:38:43Z

9

The headers you set here are for request obviously, for Response you are getting headers from your Laravel application so obviously you won't see the headers you set for your request.

If you want to see headers you set here, you should run dd($request); in your app and not in tests.

EDIT

To confirm that headers are passed to application the whole testing code:

tests/Feafure/ExampleTest.php

<?php

namespace Tests\Feature;

use Tests\TestCase;

class ExampleTest extends TestCase
{

    public function testBasicTest()
    {
        $response = $this->withHeaders([
            'Accept' => 'application/json',
            'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
            'Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . 'abc',
        ])->json('GET', 'auth/check');
    }
}

routes/web.php

Route::get('auth/check', function() {
   dd(request()->headers); 
});

so when I now run test:

./vendor/bin/phpunit

result is:

Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\HeaderBag {#49   #headers: array:8 [
    "host" => array:1 [
      0 => "localhost"
    ]
    "user-agent" => array:1 [
      0 => "Symfony/3.X"
    ]
    "accept" => array:1 [
      0 => "application/json"
    ]
    "accept-language" => array:1 [
      0 => "en-us,en;q=0.5"
    ]
    "accept-charset" => array:1 [
      0 => "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"
    ]
    "content-type" => array:1 [
      0 => "application/json"
    ]
    "authorization" => array:1 [
      0 => "Bearer abc"
    ]
    "content-length" => array:1 [
      0 => 2
    ]   ]   #cacheControl: [] }

so as you see headers from test are passed to application

edited Nov 21, 2017 at 19:38

answered Nov 21, 2017 at 19:19

Marcin Nabiałek

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4 Comments

Fernando Herique Rubim Pioli Over a year ago

Actually my headers have not been sent, so, my request fails

Marcin Nabiałek Over a year ago

@FernandoHeriqueRubimPioli Look at my edit, everything is working as expected

Rishabh Over a year ago

adding to the answer I would like to say that for POST requests you can send in data using ->json('POST', 'url', $dataAsArray); you can use json_decode('jsonString',true) to convert Json to Array

Erik Basañez Over a year ago

if someone needs the way to get each atributtes: $request->headers->get('user-agent')

yaroslawww · Accepted Answer · 2020-11-09 10:47:52Z

0

Please check you Auth guard Maybe your auth quard cache request and than use info from previous request

edited Nov 9, 2020 at 10:47

answered Nov 9, 2020 at 10:10

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