Mock Curl response for testing in laravel - laravel

Question

I am trying to unit test a function(updateMeeting) in laravel which uses a curl request inside it. I tried many google links but nothing worked. can you guys give me suggestions on this matter.
following are relevant methods. $this->meeting is a MeetingModel
public function updateMeeting($meetingId){
$meeting = $this->meeting->find($meetingId);
$endpoint = \Config::get('api_backend_endpoint');
$response = $this->curlPut($endpoint);
if ($response->http_status_code != 200) {
if(Input::get('source') == 'ajax') {
$apiResponse = app(ApiResponse::class);
$message = 'ERROR Updating Meeting ' . $meeting->name;
return $apiResponse->failed($message);
}
return Redirect::route('meetings.show', $meetingId)
->withInput()
->with('message', 'An error occurred hiding meeting with message: ' . $response->errors);
}
$meeting->save();
}
following is curlPut method
private function curlPut($url, $payload = array())
{
$data_string = json_encode($payload);
$ch = curl_init();
//send through our payload as post fields
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "PUT");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERPWD, $this->username . ":" . $this->password);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION, 1);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, array(
'Content-Type: application/json',
'Content-Length: ' . strlen($data_string))
);
$buffer = json_decode(curl_exec($ch));
curl_close($ch);
return $buffer;
}

Answer 1

Use a webservice like https://www.mocky.io/. Instead of requesting the real API, you send your requests to their API. You can create mock endpoints which return a response you can define.