getJson in test in laravel does not get passed to controller - laravel

Question

I have a test in a Laravel project where I do a getJson request and some answer should be returned. But the method in the controller doesn't get hit.
The test
<?php
namespace Tests\Feature;
use Tests\TestCase;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithFaker;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\RefreshDatabase;
use Illuminate\Notifications\DatabaseNotification;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\DatabaseMigrations;
class NotificationsTest extends TestCase
{
use DatabaseMigrations;
public function setUp(): void
{
parent::setUp();
$this->signIn();
}
public function test_a_user_can_fetch_their_unread_notifications()
{
create(DatabaseNotification::class);
$response = $this->getJson(url('/profiles') . '/' . auth()->user()->name . '/notifications')->json();
$this->assertCount(1, $response);
}
The line in webp.php that should process this request:
Route::get('/profiles/{user}/notifications', 'UserNotificationsController#index');
The UserNotificationsController:
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User;
class UserNotificationsController extends Controller
{
public function __construct()
{
$this->middelware('auth');
}
public function index() {
dd(" UsderNotificationsController-Index method hit");
return auth()->user()->unreadNotifications;
}
public function destroy(User $user, $notificationId)
{
dd(' Destroy method hit');
auth()->user()->notifications()->findOrFail($notificationId)->markAsRead();
}
}
If I run the test with phpunit, I would expect that the DD() in the index method should be executed. But it doesn't.
I tried all kinds of variations to generate the URI, but always get the same result. Can anyone tell me why I do not generate the correct URI?
Kind regards,
HUbert

Answer 1

//start by doing that : in your controller
Route::get('/profiles/notifications', 'UserNotificationsController#index');
public function test_a_user_can_fetch_their_unread_notifications()
{
$this->withoutHandlingException();
create(DatabaseNotification::class,['user_id'=>$this->signIn()->id]);
$this->signIn()//i think it should return authenticated user
$response = $this->get('/profiles/notifications')
->assertStatus(200);
// $this->assertCount(1, $response);
}
-//in your index function
public function index() {
dd(" UsderNotificationsController-Index method hit");
return response()->json(auth()->user()->unreadNotifications,200);
}