So my current issue is that I hardcode the ID
$response = $this->post(route('admin.books.store'), $attributes);
$response->assertRedirect(route('admin.books.show', 1));
Now this started to fail after I added a bunch more tests because when it arrives at this it fails to match the ID of 1 is equal to 7. How can I get the ID of the new book created in the post or have a clean state after each test?
I have this in my TestCase
use CreatesApplication, RefreshDatabase;
but that seems to only be each start?
The RefreshDatabase trait does wipe the data on each test: https://laravel.com/docs/master/database-testing#resetting-the-database-after-each-test
It depends what your $attributes are. Are you calling factory(Post::class)->create() above, because that will persist a row, in which case the ID will get incremented.
What I usually do is use $post = factory(Post::class)->raw() and pass that to the post, then just use $post->fresh()->id which should give you the correct id.
@nakov $post->fresh()->id but this is an array? That doesn't work does it?
I get this at least Error : Call to a member function fresh() on array
@jove Yes, so the raw returns an array. So basically this is the flow that I use:
$post = factory(Post::class)->raw([ 'user_id' => $user->id ]);
$response = $this->call('post', route('dmin.books.store'), $post)
->assertSuccessful();
// here because I return the created resource from the controller:
$response->id; // is what I need
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