Getting 401 when testing

I've created a unit test for posting to an api and I'm getting this error

Failed asserting that 401 matches expected 200

Here is my code

$response = $this->json('post', '/api/admin/products/create', [
    'name' => 'Product 1'
]);

$this->assertEquals(200, $response->getStatusCode());

I think what is happening is that I need to be "logged in" to post, because this is part of my admin section and because of the error I'm getting.

The only issue is I don't know how I'm gonna get passed that

Best Answer

Level 29

You can use actingAs to by pass the authentication.

Example

$user = User::factory()->create();
$this->actingAs($user,'your authentication guard');

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Level 1

@frankielee thanks so much

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