Setting post data with a Laravel request object

Question

I'm trying to test a Laravel API endpoint and want to call it in code.

    $request = Request::create( $path, $method );
    $response = Route::dispatch( $request );

This snippet works fine for GET but I need to be able to set up POST calls too. Setting the $method to POST works as well, but I can't find documentation detailing how to attach post data.

Any advice?

Answer 1

As you mentioned in the comments, you could use $this->call() but you can actually do it with your current code too. If you take a look at the signature of the Request::create() function you can see that it takes $parameters as third argument:

public static function create($uri, $method = 'GET', $parameters = array(), $cookies = array(), $files = array(), $server = array(), $content = null)

And the docblock says: The query (GET) or request (POST) parameters

So you can simply add the data to Request::create()

$data = array('foo' => 'bar');
$request = Request::create( $path, $method, $data );
$response = Route::dispatch( $request );

Answer 2

I've spent nearly a day trying to get this working myself for social authentication with passport and Angular front-end.

When I use the Restlet API Client to make the request I always get a successful response. Restlet Client Request

Restlet client response

However using the following method of making internal requests always gave me an error.

$request = Request::create(
    '/oauth/token',
    'POST',
    [
        'grant_type' => 'social',
        'client_id' => 'your_oauth_client_id',
        'client_secret' => 'your_oauth_client_secret',
        'provider' => 'social_auth_provider', // e.g facebook, google
        'access_token' => 'access_token', // access token issued by specified provider
    ]
);

$response = Route::dispatch($request);
$content = json_decode($response->getContent(), true);
if (! $response->isSuccessful()) {
    return response()->json($content, 401);
}

return response()->json([
    'content' => $content,
    'access_token' => $content['access_token'],
    'refresh_token' => $content['refresh_token'],
    'token_type' => $content['token_type'],
    'expires_at' => Carbon::parse(
        $content['expires_in']
    )->toDateTimeString()
]);

This specific error:

{
    error: "unsupported_grant_type",
    error_description: "The authorization grant type is not supported by the 
    authorization server.",
    hint: "Check that all required parameters have been provided",
    message: "The authorization grant type is not supported by the authorization server."
}

I had the feeling it has to do with the way the form data is sent in the request, so while searching for a proper way to make such internal requests in laravel I came across this sample project with a working implementation: passport-social-grant-example.

In summary here's how to do it:

$proxy = Request::create(
    '/oauth/token',
    'POST',
    [
        'grant_type' => 'social',
        'client_id' => 'your_oauth_client_id',
        'client_secret' => 'your_oauth_client_secret',
        'provider' => 'social_auth_provider', // e.g facebook, google
        'access_token' => 'access_token', // access token issued by specified provider
    ]
);

return app()->handle($proxy);

Hope this helps.