Unit Test Laravel's FormRequest

Question

I am trying to unit test various custom FormRequest inputs. I found solutions that:

1. Suggest using the $this->call(…) method an

Answer 1

Friends, please, make the unit-test properly, after all, it is not only rules you are testing here, the validationData and withValidator functions may be there too.

This is how it should be done:

setContainer(app())
                ->setRedirector(app(Redirector::class))
                ->validateResolved();
        } catch (ValidationException $ex) {

        }
        //\Log::debug(print_r($ex->errors(), true));

        $this->assertTrue(isset($ex));
        $this->assertTrue(array_key_exists('the_address', $ex->errors()));
        $this->assertTrue(array_key_exists('the_address.billing', $ex->errors()));
    }


    public function test_AddressesRequest_success_billing_only()
    {
        $faker = FakerFactory::create();
        $param = [
            'the_address' => [
                'billing' => [
                    'zip'        => $faker->postcode,
                    'phone'      => $faker->phoneNumber,
                    'country_id' => $faker->numberBetween(1, Country::count()),
                    'state'      => $faker->state,
                    'state_code' => str_random(2),
                    'city'       => $faker->city,
                    'address'    => $faker->buildingNumber . ' ' . $faker->streetName,
                    'suite'      => $faker->secondaryAddress,
                ]
            ]
        ];
        try {
            //app(AddressesRequest::class);
            $request = new AddressesRequest($param);
            $request
                ->setContainer(app())
                ->setRedirector(app(Redirector::class))
                ->validateResolved();
        } catch (ValidationException $ex) {

        }

        $this->assertFalse(isset($ex));
    }


}