Silex & phpunit JSON response

Question

I am trying to write some tests for Silex using phpunit.

I have a class Symfony\Component\BrowserKit\Client that generates a Crawler object.

This object expects the results of the client to be xhtml however my api that I am trying to test returns JSON and the crawler does not allow this.

Is there a built in class in either Silex or phpunit that will work with JSON or will I have to roll my own?

Cheers

Answer 1

There is nothing special for dealing with json, but you can use the client without using the crawler. Simply call getResponse() on the client to get the response, like this:

$client = $this->createClient();
$client->request('GET', '/');
$response = $client->getResponse();

$data = json_decode($response->getContent(), true);
$this->assertSame(array('id' => 1, 'name' => 'igorw'), $data['users'][0]);

I suggest you move this logic into a helper method on the test case and use that.