Lumen-framework: Content empty on extended (child) Requests while testing

[apaarmann]

• Lumen Version: 5.5.2
• PHP Version: 7.0
• Database Driver & Version:

Description:

While doing a request through curl or postman, extended Request (extending Illuminate Request) content is dynamically loaded in $request->getContent() method from the input stream. But in case of test case, its empty string. So, no content is loaded and request validation fails.

Steps To Reproduce:

• Create a Request class (TestRequest) extending Illuminate\Http\Request
• Add validation on TestRequest to expect name as request content field
• Inject TestRequest in a controller method as argument
• Add a route to this controller method
• Create a test case where defined route is called passing content as json
  Ex: $this->json('GET', '/route', ['name' => 'test']);
• Validation fails (even though name is passed as content)

[psolom]

I have faced the same issue. Looks like framework design problem.

@apaarmann Have you solved this?

[pdxbug]

Having same issue. curl call returns proper JSON response but API call returns info in the public $original as a class object and the public $content is '{}'

Main difference in the testing is the API call pulls from Eloquent DB entry and phptest pulls from Temporary Memory entries.

[moeen-basra]

same problem with me

here is my test functions body

public function testLogin()
    {

        $this->json('POST', 'v1/auth/login', [
            'login' => 'moeen-basra',
            'password' => 'secret',
        ])
            ->seeStatusCode(200)
            ->seeJson(['token' => '*']);
    }

in controller when I try to access $request->all(); is empty.

[benwilkins]

Has anyone found a workaround for this?

[vildand]

My problem was I was using the magic $_GET to retrieve params in the controller. Changing to request->all() solved this.

class MyGetController extends Controller { public function myGetControllerFunction(Request $request) { //$my_params = $_GET; // doesn't work with unit-test $my_params = $request->all(); //this works ...

[benwilkins]

For anyone else that stumbles upon this... I found this in the Lumen docs:

Form requests are not supported by Lumen. If you would like to use form requests, you should use the full Laravel framework.

I was attempting to use a subclass of Request to handle authorization and validation, but apparently that doesn't work in lumen. Instead, it looks like they expect that to be in the controller using $this->validate() and $this->authorize().

[driesvints]

Form requests are indeed not supported in Lumen. You should use the Validator class directly in your controller.