How to test POST routes in Laravel

Question

I'm doing the following to test a POST call to Laravel. I'm expecting that POST to questions, in accordance with my routes, will be dispatches as the store action method. This works in the browser.

My test:

public function setUp()
    {   
        parent::setUp();

        Session::start();
    }

    public function testStoreAction()
    {
        $response = $this->call('POST', 'questions', array(
            '_token' => csrf_token(),
        ));

        $this->assertRedirectedTo('questions');
    }

However, I tells me that the redirect doesn't match. Also, I can see that it isn't going to the store action method at all. I want to know what action method it is going to, and why it isn't going to the store method (if I look at route:list I can see there is a POST questions/ route that should go to questions.store; this also works in the browser, but not in my tests). Also, am I writing the call correctly for this resource? I added the token here as it was throwing an exception as it should, in some tests I will let the token check pass.

Answer 1

You could try this:

public function testStoreAction()
{
    Session::start();
    $response = $this->call('POST', 'questions', array(
        '_token' => csrf_token(),
    ));
    $this->assertEquals(302, $response->getStatusCode());
    $this->assertRedirectedTo('questions');
}

Answer 2

The most recommended way to test your routes is to check for 200 response. This is very helpful when you have multiple tests, like you are checking all of your post routes at once.

To do so, just use:

public function testStoreAction()
{
    $response = $this->call('POST', 'questions', array(
        '_token' => csrf_token(),
    ));

    $this->assertEquals(200, $response->getStatusCode());
}