laravel phpunit test with api token authentication

Question

How can I add the authorization header in phpunit? I am testing a json api that requires an api_token. laravel docs provide a actingAs method. But this does not work in my case because the api token is not directly related to the users table.

EDIT:

public function test_returns_response_with_valid_request()
    {
        $response = $this->json('post', '/api/lookup', [
            'email' => '[email protected]'
        ]);
        $response->assertStatus(200);
        $response->assertJsonStructure([
            'info' => [
                'name'
            ]
        ]);
    }

Answer 1

You can use withHeader method and pass in your token, and this works on my local (Laravel 6)

public function test_returns_response_with_valid_request()
{
    // define your $token here
    $response = $this->withHeader('Authorization', 'Bearer ' . $token)
        ->json('post', '/api/lookup', [
            'email' => '[email protected]'
        ]);

    $response->assertStatus(200);
    $response->assertJsonStructure([
        'info' => [
            'name'
        ]
    ]);
}

Or you can use actingAs with look at docs here with api guard

public function test_returns_response_with_valid_request()
{
    $user = factory(User::class)->create();
    $response = $this->actingAs($user, 'api')
        ->json('post', '/api/lookup', [
            'email' => '[email protected]'
        ]);

    $response->assertStatus(200);
    $response->assertJsonStructure([
        'info' => [
            'name'
        ]
    ]);
}

Answer 2

According to documentation.

You may also specify which guard should be used to authenticate the given user by passing the guard name as the second argument to the actingAs method:

$this->actingAs($user, 'api');