PHPUnit: post contents of file to an endpoint - laravel

Question

I am writing a test for an application that takes in pullrequestevents from github.
As part of that, I want to post the pullrequestevent JSON as supplied by GitHub, to ensure it is parsed and stored correctly.
but the supplied method in phpunit $this->post is expecting an array.
this is my test
public function testPullRequestEventCanBePosted()
{
$content = File::get('./sampleRequests/openPullRequest.json');
$response = $this->post('/pullrequest', $content->toArray());
$response->assertSuccessful();
}
and this is the json file
{
"action": "open",
"number": 2,
"pull_request": {
"url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/pulls/1",
"id": 191568743,
"node_id": "MDExOlB1bGxSZXF1ZXN0MTkxNTY4NzQz",
"html_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat/Hello-World/pull/1",
"diff_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat/Hello-World/pull/1.diff",
"patch_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat/Hello-World/pull/1.patch",
"issue_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/issues/1",
"number": 2,
"state": "open",
"locked": false,
"title": "Update the README with new information",
"user": {
"login": "Codertocat",
"id": 21031067,
"node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjIxMDMxMDY3",
"avatar_url": "https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/21031067?v=4",
"gravatar_id": "",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat",
"html_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/gists{/gist_id}",
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/subscriptions",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/orgs",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/repos",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/events{/privacy}",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/received_events",
"type": "User",
"site_admin": false
},
"body": "This is a pretty simple change that we need to pull into master.",
"created_at": "2018-05-30T20:18:30Z",
"updated_at": "2018-05-30T20:18:50Z",
"closed_at": "2018-05-30T20:18:50Z",
"merged_at": null,
"merge_commit_sha": "414cb0069601a32b00bd122a2380cd283626a8e5",
"assignee": null,
"assignees": [
],
"requested_reviewers": [
],
"requested_teams": [
],
"labels": [
],
"milestone": null,
"commits_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/pulls/1/commits",
"review_comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/pulls/1/comments",
"review_comment_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/pulls/comments{/number}",
"comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/issues/1/comments",
"statuses_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/statuses/34c5c7793cb3b279e22454cb6750c80560547b3a",
"head": {
"label": "Codertocat:changes",
"ref": "changes",
"sha": "34c5c7793cb3b279e22454cb6750c80560547b3a",
"user": {
"login": "Codertocat",
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"url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat",
"html_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat",
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"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/gists{/gist_id}",
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"type": "User",
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"node_id": "MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnkxMzU0OTMyMzM=",
"name": "Hello-World",
"full_name": "Codertocat/Hello-World",
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"id": 21031067,
"node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjIxMDMxMDY3",
"avatar_url": "https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/21031067?v=4",
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"subscribers_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/subscribers",
"subscription_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/subscription",
"commits_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/commits{/sha}",
"git_commits_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/git/commits{/sha}",
"comments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/comments{/number}",
"issue_comment_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/issues/comments{/number}",
"contents_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/contents/{+path}",
"compare_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/compare/{base}...{head}",
"merges_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/merges",
"archive_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/{archive_format}{/ref}",
"downloads_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/downloads",
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"pulls_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/pulls{/number}",
"milestones_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/milestones{/number}",
"notifications_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/notifications{?since,all,participating}",
"labels_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/labels{/name}",
"releases_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/releases{/id}",
"deployments_url": "https://api.github.com/repos/Codertocat/Hello-World/deployments",
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"updated_at": "2018-05-30T20:18:50Z",
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"ssh_url": "git#github.com:Codertocat/Hello-World.git",
"clone_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat/Hello-World.git",
"svn_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat/Hello-World",
"homepage": null,
"size": 0,
"stargazers_count": 0,
"watchers_count": 0,
"language": null,
"has_issues": true,
"has_projects": true,
"has_downloads": true,
"has_wiki": true,
"has_pages": true,
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"archived": false,
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"license": null,
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},
"sender": {
"login": "Codertocat",
"id": 21031067,
"node_id": "MDQ6VXNlcjIxMDMxMDY3",
"avatar_url": "https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/21031067?v=4",
"gravatar_id": "",
"url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat",
"html_url": "https://github.com/Codertocat",
"followers_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/followers",
"following_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/following{/other_user}",
"gists_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/gists{/gist_id}",
"starred_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/starred{/owner}{/repo}",
"subscriptions_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/subscriptions",
"organizations_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/orgs",
"repos_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/repos",
"events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/events{/privacy}",
"received_events_url": "https://api.github.com/users/Codertocat/received_events",
"type": "User",
"site_admin": false
}
}
What method do I need to use to post this to the endpoint? is it a case of installing something like guzzle?

Answer 1

Not sure about what results you might be getting at this point, but it looks like you are missing to decode the file contents as a proper JSON object:
// get plaintext contents from the json file stub
$plaintext = File::get('./sampleRequests/openPullRequest.json');
// decode the plaintext into an actual JSON object
$stubObject = json_decode($plaintext);
// Get the object attributes as an array instead of stdclass
$arrayContent = get_object_vars($stubObject);
$response = $this->post('/pullrequest', $arrayContent);
This is not guarantee that your test will pass, since we don't know how your endpoint should behave, but it basically points out the need of converting data to the proper type before using on the tester methods (post() in this case).