How to pass JSON in POST method with PhpUnit Testing?
I prefer using GuzzleHttp for external requests :
use GuzzleHttp\Client;$client = new Client();$response = $client->post($url, [ GuzzleHttp\RequestOptions::JSON => ['title' => 'title', 'body' => 'body']]);Note: GuzzleHttp should be installed with e.g. using composer.
But you can always use client bundled with Symfony:
public function testJsonPostPageAction(){ $this->client = static::createClient(); $this->client->request( 'POST', '/api/v1/pages.json', array(), array(), array('CONTENT_TYPE' => 'application/json'), '[{"title":"title1","body":"body1"},{"title":"title2","body":"body2"}]' ); $this->assertJsonResponse($this->client->getResponse(), 201, false);}protected function assertJsonResponse($response, $statusCode = 200){ $this->assertEquals( $statusCode, $response->getStatusCode(), $response->getContent() ); $this->assertTrue( $response->headers->contains('Content-Type', 'application/json'), $response->headers );}
Maybe it's a bit late... but it can help someone.
with this you can build a generic POST request and will be accepted by your controller. it's on Symfony 4.x using framework's HTTP client
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;$request = new Request([], [], [], [], [], ['HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE' => 'application/json'], {"foo":"bar"}));
CONTENT_TYPE vs HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE
TLDR;
For Symfony 5 use this:
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;$request = new Request( $uri, $method, $parameters, $cookies, $files, $server=['CONTENT_TYPE' => 'application/json'], $content={"foo":"bar"}));Careful, for Symfony 5.2, 5.3 (maybe earlier too) code below not working:
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;$request = new Request( $uri, $method, $parameters, $cookies, $files, $server=['HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE' => 'application/json'], $content={"foo":"bar"}));Why: