Functional tests and fileuploads? - php

Question

I have a Symfony2 entity called MyUploadedFiles and a form type MyUploadedFilesType with the name myuploadedfiles. This form type builds a form with a single field file. This field should not be blank and the rest of the data in the entity is generated, once a user uploads a file. Now, I want to run a functional test for my controller that handles the upload. But I I always get the error file should not be blank.
This is the code in my myUploadTest method:
$filepath = __DIR__.'/test_file.xml';
$xmlfile = new UploadedFile(
$filepath,
'foo.xml',
'text/xml',
\filesize($filepath)
);
$client->request(
'POST',
'/path/to/xml_upload',
array(),
array('myuploadedfiles[file]' => $xmlfile)
);
$response = $client->getResponse();
$this->assertEquals(Codes::HTTP_CREATED, $response->getStatusCode());
The controller looks like:
$form->bind($request);
if ($form->isValid()) { ... }
If I render the form with a twig template and try to upload something everything works fine. So probably the error is somewhere in the test code.
Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

I use this code:
# Select the file from the filesystem
# Path of the file to send
$filepath = __DIR__.'/test_file.xml';
$xmlfile = new UploadedFile(
$filepath,
'foo.xml',
'text/xml',
\filesize($filepath)
);
# Select the form (adapt it for your needs)
$form = $crawler->filter('input[type=submit]...')->form();
# Put the file in the upload field
$form['myuploadedfiles[file]']->upload($xmlfile);
# Send it
$crawler = $this->client->submit($form);
# Check that the file has been successfully sent
# (in my case the filename is displayed in a <a> link so I check
# that it appears on the page)
$this->assertEquals(
1,
$crawler->filter('a:contains("foo.xml")')->count()
);