Testing a controller method that uses related models in laravel - laravel-5

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I am working in laravel-lumen. I have two models. An Organization model and an Apikey model corresponding to an organizations and an apikeys table. The column organization_id in the apikeys table is a foreign key referring to the id field of the organizations table.
The model for organizations looks like
<?php
namespace App;
use App\Apikey
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
Class Organization Extends Model {
public $table = 'organizations';
public $fillable = [
'name',
'contact_name',
'contact_phone',
'contact_email',
'address1',
'state',
'city',
'zip',
'country'
];
public function apikeys()
{
return $this->hasMany('App\Apikey');
}
}
The apikeys model looks like this
<?php
namespace App;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
Class Apikey Extends Model {
public $table = 'apikeys';
public $fillable = [
'key',
'secret',
'organization_id',
'permissions'
];
}
organization_id in apikeys is a foreign key in the organizations table that refers to the id field of organizations table.
Now I have a controller that generates the api key given an organization_id and the permissions and fills the apikeys table. It looks like this
<?php
use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;
use App\Apikey;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
public function generateApiKeyGivenOrganizationId(Request $request)
{
$data = $request->all();
// code for generating api key.
$dd = [
'key' => 'generated encrypted key',
'secret' => 'secret',
'organization_id' => $data['organization_id'],
'permissions' => $data['permissions']
];
$xx = Apikey::create($dd);
return response()->json(['status' => 'ok', 'apikey_id' => $xx->id]);
}
}
I want to test this code. I created two model factories like this.
$factory->define(Organization::class, function ($faker) use ($factory) {
return [
'name' => $faker->name,
'contact_name' => $faker->name,
'contact_phone' => '324567',
'contact_email' => $faker->email,
'address1' => 'xxx',
'state' => 'Newyork',
'city' => 'Newyork',
'country' => 'USA'
];
});
$factory->define(Apikey::class, function ($faker) use ($factory) {
return [
'key' => 'xxx',
'secret' => 'xxxx',
'permissions' =>'111',
'organization_id' => 7
});
My testing function looks like this.
public function testApiKeyGeneration ()
{
factory(App\Organization::class)->create()->each(function($u) {
$data = [
'organization_id' => $u->id,
'permissions' => '111'
];
$this->post('/createapikeyfororg' , $data)
->seeJson(['status' => 'ok']);
});
}
The controller works perfectly. It is only in the testing I am having problems. The url '/createapikeyfororg' is the url that invokes the controller method generateApiKeyGivenOrganizationId(). Is this testing procedure correct? I am yet to try it out and I am asking this question on a Saturday because I am really in a hurry. I am a total novice at testing and I am in a hurry and any help would be appreciated.