Laravel Assert Redirect Ignoring Query Parameters - php

Question

I have an api test that asserts for redirect to a specific route. The issue is the redirect url has query parameters that includes a timestamp which changes. Wondering if Laravel's assertions has an an alternative to assertRedirect method that ignores query parameters.
/** #test */
public function test_can_redirect()
{
$this->call('GET', "users/auth")
->assertRedirect('http://localhost:8000/dashboard?timestamp=1550848436');
}
I want to assert a redirect to
http://localhost:8000/dashboard
not
http://localhost:8000/dashboard?timestamp=1550848436

Answer 1

You could use getTargetUrl to extract what is without query string.
public function test_can_redirect()
{
$redirectUrl = 'http://localhost:8000/dashboard';
$res = $this->getJson('users/auth')->assertStatus(302); # Check if redirection
# Or you could use this: $this->assertTrue($res->isRedirection());
$parts = explode('?', $res->getTargetUrl());
$this->assertTrue($parts[0] === $redirectUrl); # parts[0] is the url
wihtout query string
# If you want to check the keys of query string, too
$this->assertTrue(count($parts) === 2); # check query string exists
parse_str($parts[1], $query);
$this->assertArrayKeys($query, ['time', ..., 'the key you want to check']);
}
protected function assertArrayKeys(array $array, array $checks)
{
$keys = array_keys($array);
foreach ($checks as $check) {
$this->assertTrue(in_array($check, $keys));
}
}

Answer 2

The principle behind testing your code is to make sure that what is happening is what is expected, so if you are expecting the query parameter of a timestamp, why not build it up too?
/** #test */
public function test_can_redirect()
{
$url = "/dashboard";
// http://php.net/manual/en/function.time.php
$timestamp = time();
$this->call('GET', "users/auth")
->assertRedirect($url . '?timestamp=' . $time);
}