Laravel testing - Problems with created routes - unit-testing

Question

I have a question about routing while testing packages. The function setRoutes creates new routes in the test file as follows:
class PackageTests extends \Orchestra\Testbench\TestCase {
protected function setRoutes()
{
Route::group([
'prefix' => Package::functionToCall1(),
'before' => 'filter'
], function() {
Route::get('/', function () {
return "hello";
});
});
Route::enableFilters();
}
protected function getEnvironmentSetUp($app)
{
$this->app = $app;
$this->setRoutes();
Config::set('app.url', "http://localhost/" );
}
public function testFunction1()
{
$crawler = $this->call(
'GET',
'http://localhost/'
);
// doing this call, the function on the prefix is called
$this->assertResponseOk();
}
}
Inside the function called in the prefix, functionToCall1() urls are not taken successfully. A call to URL::current() returns "/" and a call to Request::fullUrl() returns "http://:" when phpunit is executed but they returns the full url when used executing a url in the browser. This is the code of the package:
class Package
{
function functionToCall1()
{
var_dump(URL::current() ); // returns "/"
var_dump(Request::fullUrl()); // returns "http://:"
// I want them to return 'http://localhost'
}
}
I tried setting up the url Config::set('app.url', "http://localhost/" ); but it was useless.
To sum up, is there a way to call a function in the prefix and get the testing url?
Thanks, I would really appreciate your answers :)

Answer 1

I have had to deal with a similar issue. My solution was found here:
Mocking Laravel's Request::segment method
Apparently there is an order of operations issue with testing a Request facade.
I was trying to use Request::segments() before the request was being built, so there were never any segments to return.
I imagine it's the same problem with Request::fullUrl().
Here is my solution:
class MyTestClass extends TestCase
{
public function setUp()
{
// No call to parent::setUp()
$this->app = $this->createApplication();
$this->app->request->server->set('REQUEST_URI', '/some/uri');
$this->client = $this->createClient();
$this->app->boot();
}
public function testWhatever()
{
$this->call('GET', '/some/uri');
}
}
This allows me to get the request data properly, even though it looks pretty bad.