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I have several features in an api I'm creating, using Passport for token authentication. I am looking to streamline my tests, and the first part of the Laravel documentation says to use the RefreshDatabase trait to reset the database for each test.
https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/database-testing#resetting-the-database-after-each-test
However, when I add this trait, tests fail with the message RuntimeException Personal access client not found. Please create one.
It looks like this trait is wiping out my Passport personal client. Is there a way to fix this?
And that's the proper way you should do your tests, each test should start with a clean state and not depend on each other. For initializing a state before each test you can use PHPUnit's setUp() function, which will initialize whatever is needed before each test. And you should be using a factory which creates the tokens.
You could also run seeders before each test, which will seed your database with whatever is expected: https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/database-testing#running-seeders
So how do I run the php artisan passport:install command in the setup() function?
@bensigmon maybe this will help
https://stackoverflow.com/a/50243105/1457270
you can create factories for seeding data btw, no need to run artisan command.
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