Laravel 5.1 subdomain unit test - php

Question

I'm trying to have multiple domains in my Laravel 5.1 app
Route::group(['domain' => 'api.example.local'], function() {
Route::resource('users', 'ResultController');
});
Route::group(['domain' => 'www.example.local'], function() {
Route::resource('home', 'HomeController');
});
When i doing the unit test for the api.example.local
public function testApiCall() {
$this->get('v1/users')->seeJson(['data' => 'users']);
}
However, this approach has failed and it's returning 404 request.
Therefore, i changed my test url to something like this
public function testApiCall() {
$this->get('http://api.example.local/v1/users')->seeJson(['data' => 'users']);
}
Finally, it's green for the unit test.
I'm wondering if this is the correct way to do it?
In additional, I will have different environment, for example http://api.example.stage/v1/users. Is that means I need to change the change the url to http://api.example.stage/v1/users when I'm doing unit test for stage?

Answer 1

It's almost the same for me but I'm setting ENV variables.
.env
FOO_DOMAIN=foo.example.com
WWW_DOMAIN=www.example.com
Routes
Route::domain(env('WWW_DOMAIN'))->group(function () {
Route::get('/', 'IndexController#index')->name('index');
});
Route::domain(env('FOO_DOMAIN'))->group(function () {
Route::get('/', 'FoolishController#index')->name('foolish');
});
Phpunit
$this->get('https://' . env('WWW_DOMAIN') . '/')
->assertSuccessful()
->assertSeeInOrder(['Home']);

Answer 2

Yes, this is quite correct way to me. I do the same.
I just use call instead of get
$this->call('GET',...
$this->assertResponseOk();