Testing API in Laravel 5.3 - php

Question

I am new in Laravel and I am a bit confused on how to test my api in 5.3. I read the docs and I saw this kind of examples but I don't know if I applied the examples correctly. Anyway, I'm always getting an ErrorException
Error Exception
I have this one in UserTest.php
<?php
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithoutMiddleware;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseTransactions;
class UserTest extends TestCase
{
/**
* A basic test example.
*
* #return void
*/
public function testLoginSuccess()
{
$this->post('http://127.0.0.1/identificare_api/public/api/user/login', ['email' => 'identificare#gmail.com', 'password' => 'identificare']);
}
}
and I tried this one also, still no go.
$this->json('POST', 'user/login', ['email' => 'identificare#gmail.com', 'password' => 'identificare']);
here's my route
Route::post('user/login', 'UserController#login');
Is it correct to do it this way? If no, what's the correct way of testing my api?

Answer 1

Correct way to call the post is
$this->post('/user/login', array('email' => 'identificare#gmail.com', 'password' => 'identificare'));
or
$this->call('POST','/user/login', array('email' => 'identificare#gmail.com', 'password' => 'identificare'));
use an echo and exit in the login function and check whether test hitting the controller function.
It will be easier if you share a dummy code of your controller function ,because we could n`t figure out what this variable $e. Which should be in controller.