Laravel 5.4 HTTP Testing - laravel-5

Question

I am writing a test for a json route in laravel 5.4, I am supposed to be redirected if the GET request is not ajax, the code works correctly on the browser chrome but when I test it does not work as expected. I tried different variation to add headers to the request none worked.
When I changed the request to POST it worked as excepted, I am not sure what I am missing. here is the code
routes.php
// Redirect all none-ajax routes to the main edit test route
if (!Request::ajax()) {
Route::get('{vue?}', ['as'=>'vue_redirect', 'uses' => 'TestController#vueHandler'])->where('vue', '[\/\w\.-]*');
}
/*
* General route to the test instructions
*/
Route::get('getInstructions', ['as' => 'getInstructions', 'uses' => 'TestController#getInstructions']);
This is the test code
public function testgetTest()
{
$x = $this->actingAs($this->customer)->json('GET', '/test/edit/' . $this->test->id . '/getInstructions');
var_dump($x->getContent());
}
I tried variation like
$this->actingAs($this->customer)->call('GET', '/test/edit/' . $this->test->id . '/getInstructions', [], [], ['X-Requested-With' => 'XMLHttpRequest']
Put also did not work.
When I change to POST and print out the headers this is what I get
if (!Request::ajax()) {
var_dump(Request::header());
Route::get('{vue?}', ['as'=>'vue_redirect', 'uses' => 'TestController#vueHandler'])->where('vue', '[\/\w\.-]*');
}
/*
* General route to the test instructions
*/
Route::post('getInstructions', ['as' => 'getInstructions', 'uses' => 'TestController#getInstructions']);
Output for the POST working
array(5) {
["host"]=>
array(1) {
[0]=>
string(7) "app.dev"
}
["user-agent"]=>
array(1) {
[0]=>
string(11) "Symfony/3.X"
}
["accept"]=>
array(1) {
[0]=>
string(63) "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8"
}
["accept-language"]=>
array(1) {
[0]=>
string(14) "en-us,en;q=0.5"
}
["accept-charset"]=>
array(1) {
[0]=>
string(30) "ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7"
}
}
string(373) "{"success":true,"message":{"id":1,"type_id":"2","user_id":"3","test_name":"Test-MEAjT","test_url":"http:\/\/www.kuphal.com\/eveniet-distinctio-voluptas-sint","test_instructions":"Accusamus laboriosam alias magni ea. Et libero totam sunt ut.","status":"draft","completion_date":null,"is_onboarding":"0","created_at":"2017-04-02 19:50:00","updated_at":"2017-04-02 19:50:00"}}"
I can see the correct output, but the headers are not correct which is confusing for me.

Answer 1

I managed to solve this issue based on guidance of #sisve #lagbox I made the following updates to the code.
I removed the condition of checking ajax to a middleware, then I moved the location of the route vue_redirect to the bottom of the match so it does not conflict with other routes. (which was a bug that redirect all the traffic to the wrong route).
Routes.php
Route::group(['middleware' => ['VerifyAjaxRequest']], function(){
/*
* General route to the test instructions
*/
Route::get('getInstructions', ['as' => 'getInstructions', 'uses' => 'TestController#getInstructions']);
});
VerifyAjaxRequest.php middleware
public function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
// Redirect all none-ajax routes to the main edit test route
if (!$request->ajax()) {
return redirect(route('vue_redirect'));
}
return $next($request);
}
Test.php
public function testgetTest()
{
$response = $this->actingAs($this->customer)->json('get', '/test/edit/' . $this->test->id . '/getInstructions', [], ['X-Requested-With'=>'XMLHttpRequest']);
var_dump($response->getContent());
}
Now it works as excepted including headers and correct response