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Helpers for laravel form request unit testing. It allows you to keep your controller tests clean and focus on testing their proper purpose by taking form request assertions to separate tests.

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require --dev kishieel/laravel-form-request-unit

Usage

Rules Validation

With FormRequestValidator trait you may test your FormRequest without direct request to controller. Mentioned trait provide validate method which takes FormRequest and data which should be validated as arguments.

use Kishieel\RequestUnit\FormRequestValidator;

public function some_example_test()
{
    $formRequest = new YourFormRequest();
    $data = [
        'property_1' => 12, 
        'property_2' => 'string'
    ];

    $result = $this->validate($formRequest, $data);
    // ..
}

As a result you will get ValidatorResponse which provide passes and errors methods. First method allow you to determinate whether data passes validation against form request rules. Second method may be used when you expected validation fail and want to determinate whether data failed against expected rule.

use Kishieel\RequestUnit\FormRequestValidator;

public function some_example_test()
{
    // ..
    
    $this->assertFalse($result->passes());
    $this->assertArrayHasKey('property_3', $result->errors());
}

Selective Validation

With a very complex FormRequest, you may want to test data against only specified rules. You may achieve this by passing array of rule keys as third parameter of validate method.

use Kishieel\RequestUnit\FormRequestValidator;

public function some_example_test()
{
    // ..
    $result = $this->validate($formRequest, $data, ['property_1']);
    
    // will keep errors only for `property_1`
    $result->errors(); 
}

Authorization Validation

With FormRequestValidator you may validate FormRequest authorization method. Result will be available via passes method on validation result.

Testing Custom Validation Rules

In case of custom validation rules you may use FormRequestCreator to create FormRequest on runtime and test it against your data. FormRequestCreator takes rules array and authorization callback as constructor arguments. Arguments are optional. You may use setRules and setAuthorization methods if you prefer.

Validator::extend('mac_address', function ($attribute, $value) {
    return preg_match('/^([0-9A-Fa-f]{2}[:-]){5}([0-9A-Fa-f]{2})$/', strval($value));
});

use Kishieel\RequestUnit\FormRequestValidator;

public function some_example_test()
{
    $formRequest = new \Kishieel\RequestUnit\FormRequestCreator([
        'mac_address' => 'required|mac_address'    
    ]);
    
    $result = $this->validate($formRequest, ['mac_address' => 'invalid_mac_address']);
    
    $this->assertFalse($result->passes());
    $this->assertArrayHasKey('mac_address', $result->errors());
}

Contributing

Before any pull request to master branch please run cs fixer and unit test.

composer fix 
composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.