How can my command pass through optional arguments to another Artisan command? - laravel

Question

(Updated question to show that it's not like the linked questions)
I wrote a Laravel command (shown in its entirety below) that basically is a wrapper for Dusk so that I can be sure to call certain other functions beforehand. (Otherwise, I inevitably would forget to reset my testing environment.)
It works perfectly when I run php artisan mydusk.
namespace App\Console\Commands;
class DuskCommand extends BaseCommand {
protected $signature = 'mydusk {file?} {--filter=?}';
protected $description = 'refreshAndSeedTestingDb, then run Dusk suite of tests';
public function handle() {
$this->consoleOutput($this->description);
$resetTestingEnv = new ResetTestingEnv();
$resetTestingEnv->refreshAndSeedTestingDb();
$this->consoleOutput('refreshAndSeedTestingDb finished. Now will run Dusk...');
$file = $this->argument('file');//What to do with this?
return \Artisan::call('dusk', ['--filter' => $this->option('filter')]);
}
}
As you can see, I've already read these docs and understand how to write the $signature to accept optional arguments.
My goal is to be able to sometimes run php artisan mydusk and also be able to optionally add arguments such as when I might want to call something like php artisan mydusk tests/Browser/MailcheckTest.php --filter testBasicValidCaseButtonClick (which would pass the tests/Browser/MailcheckTest.php --filter testBasicValidCaseButtonClick arguments through to the normal dusk command).
How can I edit the last 2 lines of my handle() function so that $file gets passed to dusk?

Answer 1

You can have a look at these links too it might help you.
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Answer 2

I was surprised to learn from my experiments that my original function actually works as I desired, and I can remove the inert line ($file = $this->argument('file');).
Passing the file argument through \Artisan::call() actually does not seem to be necessary at all.
#fubar's answer seems to have made the same mistaken assumptions as I originally did.
As #Jonas Staudenmeir hinted in a comment, Laravel\Dusk\Console\DuskCommand uses arguments from $_SERVER['argv'].

Answer 3

Use signature without '--' to provide arguments
return \Artisan::call('dusk', ['file' => $file , '--filter' => $this->option('filter')]);
The documentation does give an example but it is not stated clearly (it assumes you followed all the statements in the sections above)
For the signature below
protected $signature = 'email:send {user} {--queue}';
It gives (on very far below) this example as calling an Artisan command from other commands
public function handle()
{
$this->call('email:send', [
'user' => 1, '--queue' => 'default'
]);
}
https://laravel.com/docs/5.6/artisan#calling-commands-from-other-commands