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I am doing unit testing to my web application. My experience with Laravel and PHP Unit Testing too young. Now, I am just fiddling around with the Laravel Unit test. Now, I am testing if a view returned to the route contains specific text. Very simple. This is what I have done.
I created a view called, unit_test.blade.php with the following content
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
This is unit test
</body>
</html>
This is the route to display that view
Route::get('unit/test', function(){
return view('unit_test');
});
This is my test class and function
class ApiV2EventController extends TestCase
{
public function testUnitTest()
{
$response = $this->get('unit/test');
$response->assertViewHas('unit');
}
}
My test function is simple. It is just checking if the view contains the text, "unit". But when I run the test in the command line, it is giving
There was 1 failure:
1) Tests\Feature\ApiV2EventController::testUnitTest
The response is not a view.
I am returning the view in the route. What is wrong with my code? How can I test it?
206
In your test try to disable Exception Handling to see what's going on.
$this->withoutExceptionHandling();
As mentioned in the comments, you can use $response->content() in the test case to check the actual rendered HTML.
And an extra: you can use $response->assertSeeText($string) to check that any string exists in the HTML. That method is pretty much what you did ($this->assertContains('unit', $response->content())) with an extra call to strip_tags().
And as another extra, $response->assertViewHas() is used when you pass data to your view, e.g.
Route::get('unit/test', function() {
return view('unit_test', [
'some_var' => 'some value',
]);
});
And in the test case:
$response = $this->get('unit/test');
$response->assertViewHas('some_var');
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