How to pass arguments to a test function in laravel throw console - laravel

Question

I'm playing around with test in Laravel, and I want to test the same function with different users I've created. Is there a way to pass the id as an argument throw laravel console? I mean, writing something like:
/** #test */
public function my_test_function($id)
{
$user = User::find($id);
..........................}
And then calling with:
php artisan test --filter my_test_function ....... plus something to pass the id.

Answer 1

The cli arguments are accesible in the global namespace. You can retrieve and dump them with something like:
/** #test */
public function my_test()
{
global $argv;
var_dump($argv);
$this->assertTrue(true);
}
However, phpunit shouldn't allow for arbitrary parameters
$ vendor/bin/phpunit -u 1
PHPUnit 9.5.4 by Sebastian Bergmann and contributors.
Unknown option "-u"
You can resort to piggyback on a harmless option. For example, if you mean to pass an integer to match the user_id (as you probably do), you could probably do
$ vendor/bin/phpunit --exclude-group 14
As long as you don't have a real test group called '14', and have the dump display:
array (3) [
0 => string (15) "vendor/bin/pest"
1 => string (15) "--exclude-group"
2 => string (2) "14"
]
You don't need to write your own parsing rules to handle those arguments, but it's still -as I said- piggybacking and it could break in several ways. Before going further with that approach, I'd reccomend using an environment variable defined right before the executable
$ APP_USER_ID=14 vendor/bin/phpunit
which you can retrieve with
/** #test */
public function my_test()
{
var_dump(getenv('APP_USER_ID'));
$this->assertTrue(true);
}
the dump will display the value you're looking for without involving arguments parsing
string (2) "14"