testing filters in laravel 4 - php

Question

I'm new to laravel. I am trying to test that authentication works for my website and I want to test the authentication process in a test case. I create a in-memory sqlite database, I create a new User and use ->save() method of eloquent to store it in the database. I have setup an authentication filter which checks for the username in the database and depending on that it either allows the user to login or returns "invalid credentials"
// my UserTest.php file :
class UserTest extends TestCase {
public function testUsernameIsNotRequired()
{
// Create a new User
$user = new User;
$user->username = "phil#ipbrown.com";
$user->password = "123456";
//$user->password_confirmation = "password";
// User should save
$this->assertTrue($user->save());
// Save the errors
$password = $user->getAuthPassword();
// There should be 0 error
$this->assertEquals("123456",$password);
$this->seed();
$this->be($user);
$this->assertTrue(Redirect::route('authFilter'));
}
}
just to let you know that the in-memory db is lost once the test is complete as all the connections to it are lost so I want to check that the user that I saved to my db is properly inserted and second I want to check if I can login to my website using the information of this new user.
// my filters.php file :
Route::filter('auth', function()
{
if (Auth::guest()) return Redirect::guest('login');
});
Route::filter('auth.basic', function()
{
return Auth::basic('username');
});
Route::filter('guest', function()
{
if (Auth::check()) return Redirect::to('/');
});
Route::filter('csrf', function()
{
if (Session::token() != Input::get('_token'))
{
throw new Illuminate\Session\TokenMismatchException;
}
});
I was trying to attach a filter to a route so that I can redirect to the route during my test and which calls the auth.basic filter so I can test my filter, I know Im doing a lot of things wrong so please feel free to correct any mistakes that you come accross
my routes.php file :>
Route::get('/', function()
{
return View::make('hello');
});
Route::get('/authtest', array('as'=>'/authtest','before' => 'auth.basic', function()
{
return View::make('hello');
}));
Route::group(array('prefix' => 'api/v1', 'before' => 'auth.basic'), function()
{
Route::resource('url', 'UrlController');
});
Route::get('authFilter', array('as'=>'authFilter','before' => 'auth.basic', function()
{
return Auth::basic('username');
}));
I also have a uri controller which has all the pages for my website
this is what I followed to create my uri controller for the moment
I need a test case that creates a user stores it into the in-memory database and then authenticates using that users information. If any one knows laravel testing for filters please let me know I looked up the documentation for testing filters but I guess it is not well documented.
thank you

Answer 1

Filters are disabled in tests on Laravel 4.
You can use Route::enableFilters() in your test to force the filters on.
You can read up on the various discussions about why/why not to test filters;
https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/344
https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/766
http://forums.laravel.io/viewtopic.php?id=7404
https://github.com/laravel/framework/issues/682

Answer 2

You can keep most of this in the unit test.
public function testMyFilter() {
// Set up route with filter.
Route::get('testFilter', ['before' => 'myfilter', function()
{
return 'Hello World';
}]);
// Enable filters.
Route::enableFilters();
// Be a user.
$this->be($this->user);
// Make a request that will use the filter.
$response = $this->client->request('GET', 'testFilter');
// Check the response.
$this->assertResponseOk();
}