laravel write proper test for sending email - php

Question

I wonder how to write proper unit test for my email sending method. It's a problem because inside method I get data from Auth object. Should I send id of user in Request?
public function sendGroupInvite(Request $request){
foreach ($request->get('data') as $item){
$invitations = new \App\Models\Invitations();
$invitations->user_id = Auth::id();
$invitations->name = $item["name"];
$invitations->email = $item["email"];
$invitations->status = 0;
$invitations->token = \UUID::getToken(20);
$invitations->username = Auth::user()->name;
$invitations->save();
$settings = UserSettings::where('user_id', Auth::id())->first();
$email = $item["email"];
$url = 'https://example.com/invite/accept/'.$invitations->token;
$urlreject = 'https://example.com/invite/reject/'.$invitations->token;
$mailproperties = ['token' => $invitations->token,
'name' => $invitations->name,
'url' => $url,
'email' => $email,
'urlreject' => $urlreject,
'userid' => Auth::id(),
'username' => Auth::user()->name,
'user_name' => $settings->name,
'user_lastname' => $settings->lastname,
'user_link' => $settings->user_link,
];
$this->dispatch(new SendMail(new Invitations($mailproperties)));
}
return json_encode(array('msg' => 'ok'));
}
I'm using Auth to get username and user id. When I testing it it's not works, because Auth it's null.

Answer 1

I would go with mocking the queue, something similar to this. Mock Documentation
class MailTester extends TestCase{
/**
* #test
*/
public function test_mail(){
Queue::fake();
// call your api or method
Queue::assertPushed(SendMail, function(SendMail $job) {
return $job->something = $yourProperties;
});
}

Answer 2

You could try "acting as" to deal with the Auth::user().
...
class MyControllerTest extends TestCase{
/**
* #test
*/
public function foo(){
$user = App\Users::find(env('TEST_USER_ID')); //from phpunit.xml
$route = route('foo-route');
$post = ['foo' => 'bar'];
$this->actingAs($user)//a second param is opitonal here for api
->post($route, $post)
->assertStatus(200);
}
}