Laravel 5.5 Testing JSON header doesn't work

Question

I have a problem in testing Laravel 5.5. I need to send a Bearer Token in TEST HEADER, but doesn't work

public function testAuthCheckinvalidToken()
    {
        $response = $this->withHeaders([
            'Accept' => 'application/json',
            'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
            'Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . $this->token,
        ])->json('GET', 'auth/check');
    ...
    }

When I dd($response), only the default HEADERS is set:

#headers: array:5 [
            "cache-control" => array:1 [
              0 => "no-cache, private"
            ]
            "date" => array:1 [
              0 => "Tue, 21 Nov 2017 18:48:27 GMT"
            ]
            "content-type" => array:1 [
              0 => "application/json"
            ]
            "x-ratelimit-limit" => array:1 [
              0 => 60
            ]
            "x-ratelimit-remaining" => array:1 [
              0 => 59
            ]
          ]

My HEADERS doesn't appear. I think that I am right

Marcin Nabiałek · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-21T19:38:43.730

The headers you set here are for request obviously, for Response you are getting headers from your Laravel application so obviously you won't see the headers you set for your request.

If you want to see headers you set here, you should run dd($request); in your app and not in tests.

EDIT

To confirm that headers are passed to application the whole testing code:

tests/Feafure/ExampleTest.php

<?php

namespace Tests\Feature;

use Tests\TestCase;

class ExampleTest extends TestCase
{

    public function testBasicTest()
    {
        $response = $this->withHeaders([
            'Accept' => 'application/json',
            'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
            'Authorization' => 'Bearer ' . 'abc',
        ])->json('GET', 'auth/check');
    }
}

routes/web.php

Route::get('auth/check', function() {
   dd(request()->headers); 
});

so when I now run test:

./vendor/bin/phpunit

result is:

Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\HeaderBag {#49   #headers: array:8 [
    "host" => array:1 [
      0 => "localhost"
    ]
    "user-agent" => array:1 [
      0 => "Symfony/3.X"
    ]
    "accept" => array:1 [
      0 => "application/json"
    ]
    "accept-language" => array:1 [
      0 => "en-us,en;q=0.5"
    ]
    "accept-charset" => array:1 [
      0 => "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"
    ]
    "content-type" => array:1 [
      0 => "application/json"
    ]
    "authorization" => array:1 [
      0 => "Bearer abc"
    ]
    "content-length" => array:1 [
      0 => 2
    ]   ]   #cacheControl: [] }

so as you see headers from test are passed to application

Actually my headers have not been sent, so, my request fails — Fernando Herique Rubim Pioli, Nov 21 '17 at 19:33
@FernandoHeriqueRubimPioli Look at my edit, everything is working as expected — Marcin Nabiałek, Nov 21 '17 at 19:39
adding to the answer I would like to say that for POST requests you can send in data using ->json('POST', 'url', $dataAsArray); you can use json_decode('jsonString',true) to convert Json to Array — Rishabh, Sep 28 '18 at 15:13
if someone needs the way to get each atributtes: $request->headers->get('user-agent') — Erik Basañez, Jan 19 '22 at 12:30

yaroslawww · Answer 2 · 2020-11-09T10:47:52.157

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Please check you Auth guard Maybe your auth quard cache request and than use info from previous request

edited Nov 09 '20 at 10:47

answered Nov 09 '20 at 10:10

yaroslawww

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Laravel 5.5 Testing JSON header doesn't work

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