Laravel-auditing: Uncaught RuntimeException: A facade root has not been set. in unit tests

[CraigHarley]

| Q | A
| ----------------- | ---
| Bug? |yes
| New Feature? | no
| Framework | Laravel
| Framework version | 5.8
| Package version | v9.0.0
| PHP version | 7.3.3

Actual Behaviour

Auditing works fine (thanks this is a great package), but unit tests which create the application don't seem to work for me. I get the Uncaught RuntimeException: A facade root has not been set..

In my tests I have a trait which creates the application, on a previous issue I see that you're supposed to mock app with App::shouldReceive('runningInConsole');, but that doesn't seem to help.

The trait looks like this:

trait CreatesApplication
{
    /**
     * Creates the application.
     *
     * @return \Illuminate\Foundation\Application
     */
    public function createApplication()
    {
        /** @var \Illuminate\Foundation\Application $app */
        $app = require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';

        $app->make(Kernel::class)->bootstrap();

        Artisan::call('migrate:fresh');
        Artisan::call('db:seed');

        return $app;
    }
}

Steps to Reproduce

1. vendor/bin/phpunit

'console' => false, is set in the config file so according to the docs, this package shouldn't be running during tests.

If you need anything else let me know, I wasn't sure what else to put here.

Possible Solutions

Something I tried was disabling auditing for the model if we're in a test:

/**
     * Boot function from laravel.
     */
    protected static function boot()
    {
        if (Testing::isTest()){
            self::disableAuditing();
        }

        parent::boot();
    }

But this still gave me the same error.

[CraigHarley]

The issue was that I had a test listener, the App::shouldReceive('runningInConsole'); should also go in there.

[euperia]

@CraigHarley I'm having this issue. Can you explain where the App::shouldReceive('runningInConsole'); should go please?

[cwilby]

@CraigHarley Also having this issue, where did you put App::shouldReceive('runningInConsole');?

[CraigHarley]

You probably have a function that gets called in your test (before they run), which creates the application and possibly runs migrations.

I put it in there. (the test listener)

[cwilby]

The problem with that is bootAuditable is being called when the test results are deserialized by phpunit. (callstack included)

I'm not sure where to mock runningInConsole (or if I even can given this call stack)

PHPUnit 8.5.2 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.


Fatal error: Uncaught RuntimeException: A facade root has not been set. in /var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/Facades/Facade.php on line 258

RuntimeException: A facade root has not been set. in /var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Support/Facades/Facade.php on line 258

Call Stack:
    0.0028     402512   1. {main}() /var/www/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit:0
    0.0694    4984384   2. PHPUnit\TextUI\Command::main() /var/www/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit:61
    0.0694    4984496   3. PHPUnit\TextUI\Command->run() /var/www/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/TextUI/Command.php:159
    0.9441   11082728   4. PHPUnit\TextUI\TestRunner->doRun() /var/www/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/TextUI/Command.php:200
    1.1156   11524336   5. PHPUnit\Framework\TestSuite->run() /var/www/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/TextUI/TestRunner.php:621
    1.1906   11527208   6. PHPUnit\Framework\TestSuite->run() /var/www/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Framework/TestSuite.php:597
    1.2111   11661296   7. Tests\DateTest->run() /var/www/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Framework/TestSuite.php:597
    1.2976   13326064   8. PHPUnit\Util\PHP\DefaultPhpProcess->runTestJob() /var/www/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Framework/TestCase.php:754
    3.3823   13396168   9. PHPUnit\Util\PHP\DefaultPhpProcess->processChildResult() /var/www/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/AbstractPhpProcess.php:171
    3.3823   13396488  10. unserialize() /var/www/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/AbstractPhpProcess.php:272
    3.4284   15466192  11. App\Models\Firm->__wakeup() /var/www/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/Util/PHP/AbstractPhpProcess.php:272
    3.4284   15466192  12. App\Models\Firm->bootIfNotBooted() /var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1652
    3.4284   15466568  13. Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model::boot() /var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:186
    3.4284   15466568  14. Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model::bootTraits() /var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:199
    3.4292   15468056  15. forward_static_call() /var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:219
    3.4292   15468056  16. App\Models\Firm::bootAuditable() /var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:219
    3.4292   15468056  17. App\Models\Firm::isAuditingEnabled() /var/www/vendor/owen-it/laravel-auditing/src/Auditable.php:49
    3.4306   15495120  18. Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade::runningInConsole() /var/www/vendor/owen-it/laravel-auditing/src/Auditable.php:487
    3.4306   15495120  19. Illuminate\Support\Facades\Facade::__callStatic() /var/www/vendor/owen-it/laravel-auditing/src/Auditable.php:487

[asologor]

I had the same error in my tests because my test class extended wrong base test class (not that one provided by Laravel).