Not hitting a function when posting a route in testing - laravel

Question

I'm trying to create a feature test and I'm trying to post to a route, but I'm not hitting that route and what I mean by that
is, when I dd() in that function that I need to get into, I'm not getting the output from the dd() that lets me know that I've hit my function.
Here is my test function
<?php
namespace Tests\Feature;
class CategoryTest extends TestCase
{
protected function setUp(): void
{
parent::setUp();
$user = User::create([
'name' => 'Test User',
'email' => 'test#test.com'
'password' => bcrypt('password')
]);
$this->actingAs($user, 'web');
}
private function createTestCategory()
{
$category = Category::create([
'name' => 'Category 1'
]);
return $category;
}
public function testCategoryVersion()
{
$category = $this->createTestCategory();
$version = [
'version' => 'v1'
];
$response = $this->call('POST', "/api/project/{$category->id}/version", [
'version' => $version
]);
dd($response);
}
}
and this is what I get in return
Illuminate\Testing\TestResponse^ {#12704
+baseResponse: Illuminate\Http\RedirectResponse^ {#13339
#request: Illuminate\Http\Request^ {#13504
#json: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\ParameterBag^ {#14972
#parameters: array:1 [
"version" => array:1 [
"version" => "v1"
]
]
}
#convertedFiles: null
#userResolver: Closure($guard = null)^ {#14453
class: "Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider"
this: Illuminate\Auth\AuthServiceProvider {#16961 …}
use: {
$app: Illuminate\Foundation\Application {#17080 …}
}
file: "./vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Auth/AuthServiceProvider.php"
line: "105 to 107"
}
#routeResolver: Closure()^ {#15018
class: "Illuminate\Routing\Router"
this: Illuminate\Routing\Router {#16256 …}
use: {
$route: Illuminate\Routing\Route {#14382 …}
}
file: "./vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Routing/Router.php"
line: "655 to 657"
}
+attributes: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\ParameterBag^ {#12703
#parameters: []
}
+request: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\ParameterBag^ {#14972}
+query: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\InputBag^ {#11883
#parameters: []
}
+server: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\ServerBag^ {#14949
#parameters: array:19 [
"SERVER_NAME" => "localhost"
"SERVER_PORT" => 80
"HTTP_HOST" => "localhost"
"HTTP_USER_AGENT" => "Symfony"
"HTTP_ACCEPT" => "application/json"
"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE" => "en-us,en;q=0.5"
"HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET" => "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"
"REMOTE_ADDR" => "127.0.0.1"
"SCRIPT_NAME" => ""
"SCRIPT_FILENAME" => ""
"SERVER_PROTOCOL" => "HTTP/1.1"
"REQUEST_TIME" => 1644936692
"REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT" => 1644936692.2835
"HTTP_CONTENT_LENGTH" => 28
"CONTENT_TYPE" => "application/json"
"PATH_INFO" => ""
"REQUEST_METHOD" => "POST"
"REQUEST_URI" => "/api/project/1/version"
"QUERY_STRING" => ""
]
}
+files: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\FileBag^ {#14964
#parameters: []
}
+cookies: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\InputBag^ {#16109
#parameters: []
}
+headers: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\HeaderBag^ {#11625
#headers: array:8 [
"host" => array:1 [
0 => "localhost"
]
"user-agent" => array:1 [
0 => "Symfony"
]
"accept" => array:1 [
0 => "application/json"
]
"accept-language" => array:1 [
0 => "en-us,en;q=0.5"
]
"accept-charset" => array:1 [
0 => "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"
]
"content-length" => array:1 [
0 => 28
]
"content-type" => array:1 [
0 => "application/json"
]
"origin" => array:1 [
0 => ""
]
]
#cacheControl: []
}
#content: "{"version":{"version":"v1"}}"
#languages: null
#charsets: null
#encodings: null
#acceptableContentTypes: array:1 [
0 => "application/json"
]
#pathInfo: "/api/project/1/version"
#requestUri: "/api/project/1/version"
#baseUrl: ""
#basePath: null
#method: "POST"
#format: null
#session: null
#locale: null
#defaultLocale: "en"
-preferredFormat: null
-isHostValid: true
-isForwardedValid: true
-isSafeContentPreferred: null
basePath: ""
format: "html"
}
#session: Illuminate\Session\Store^ {#11680
#id: "sGsZ8cj5iRPLBjfLT4quiaal9LjdOEJUakzno0CU"
#name: "laravel_session"
#attributes: array:2 [
"error" => "Your account has been disabled. Please contact us at test#test.com"
"_flash" => array:2 [
"new" => array:1 [
0 => "error"
]
"old" => []
]
]
#handler: Illuminate\Session\ArraySessionHandler^ {#11912
#storage: []
#minutes: "120"
}
#started: false
}
#targetUrl: "http://localhost/login"
+headers: Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\ResponseHeaderBag^ {#14761
#computedCacheControl: array:2 [
"no-cache" => true
"private" => true
]
#cookies: []
#headerNames: array:5 [
"cache-control" => "Cache-Control"
"date" => "Date"
"location" => "Location"
"content-type" => "Content-Type"
"access-control-allow-origin" => "Access-Control-Allow-Origin"
]
#headers: array:5 [
"cache-control" => array:1 [
0 => "no-cache, private"
]
"date" => array:1 [
0 => "Tue, 15 Feb 2022 14:51:32 GMT"
]
"location" => array:1 [
0 => "http://localhost/login"
]
"content-type" => array:1 [
0 => "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
]
"access-control-allow-origin" => array:1 [
0 => ""
]
]
#cacheControl: []
}
#content: """
<!DOCTYPE html>\n
<html>\n
<head>\n
<meta charset="UTF-8" />\n
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url='http://localhost/login'" />\n
\n
<title>Redirecting to http://localhost/login</title>\n
</head>\n
<body>\n
Redirecting to http://localhost/login.\n
</body>\n
</html>
"""
#version: "1.1"
#statusCode: 302
#statusText: "Found"
#charset: null
+original: null
+exception: null
}
#streamedContent: null
}