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Testing Cookie Modification in Laravel 8
If there’s a better way to pass a cookie from one request to another, in a phpunit feature test in Laravel, please let me know! Here’s one way to handle it:
12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243444546<?phpnamespace Tests\Feature;use Illuminate\Cookie\CookieValuePrefix;use Tests\TestCase;class DiveDeeperTest extends TestCase{/*** Tests if the diveDeeper route appends the passed value to the cookie arr.* @return void*/public function test_it_updates_path_cookie(){// Post a deeperPath to the diveDeeper route (with a starter cookie).// This should append the "deeperPath" value to the "path" cookie array.$resp = $this->withCookie('path', serialize(['/']))->post(route('diveDeeper'), ['deeperPath' => 'Users']);// Assert that the cookie has been modified.$resp->assertCookie('path', serialize(['/', 'Users']));// If we make another post request here, it won't include our// modified "path" cookie. We have to retrieve it, then pass it// through to the next request.// Decrypt the cookie (now modified by the diveDeeper route).$cookieValue = CookieValuePrefix::remove(app('encrypter')->decrypt($resp->getCookie('path')->getValue(), false));// Hit the diveDeeper route again using the modified cookie value.$resp = $this->withCookie('path', $cookieValue)->post(route('diveDeeper'), ['deeperPath' => 'adam']);// Assert that the cookie has been modified again.$resp->assertCookie('path', serialize(['/', 'Users', 'adam']));// Etc...}}