Testing File Download with Dusk

Why would you test a file download? Wouldn't it pass if you just downloaded a file, and it worked? Just curious.

Yes, I need to verify that the file has downloaded correctly at least.

You might be better using the 'basic' http tests for downloads. You can do things like :

$response = $this->actingAs($user)->get(route('export.report'));

$response->assertStatus(200);
$response->assertHeader('content-disposition', 'attachment; filename="report.csv"');
$file = $response->getFile();
$filename = $file->getPathname();
// do whatever you need with the filename/file

RESTRAN, Have you test download file with dusk yet?

Has anyone found a way of testing if a download has successfully been downloaded and asserted it?

@tobyreed when the ->get() method succeeds it implies the download was successful. If you also want to check the content of the downloaded file you could probably just get that from the $response.

As tobyreed asked, how do you assert that a file was downloaded with Dusk? If a download is triggered client-side.