Laravel 5 Unit Test - Call to a member function connection() on null

Question

I tried creating a unit test for the relationships between my User and Shop models, however when I run vendor\\\\bin\\\\phpunit this e

Answer 1

That can be happens when you try to read database from dataprovider function. Like me tried, yes. The work way:

protected static $tariffs_default;
protected function setUp(): void {
    parent::setUp ();
    if (!static::$tariffs_default){
        static::$tariffs_default = DB::...;
    }
}    
// in dataprovider we use string parm, named as our static vars
public static function provider_prov2(){
    return [
        [".....", [ 'tariffs'=>'tariffs_default'] ],
    ];
}
// then, in test we can ask our data by code:
public function testSome(string $inn, string $ogrn, $resp_body){
    if ( $ta_var = Arr::get( $resp_body, 'tariffs' ) ){
        Arr::set($resp_body, 'tariffs', static::$$ta_var );
    }
    $this->assert...
}