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@bwrigley You have to trigger your event. That is the only way to trigger your pusher notification.
event(new YourClassName())
Sep 25, 2023
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Seeding Notifications?
I think I'm probably thinking about this wrong but I would like to seed my database with notifications for testing.
I have various front-end components that display unreadNotifications() counts and links to view them etc.
However, I can't seem to find a way to create notifications without actually triggering my Pusher broadcasts.
Notification::fake() doesn't seem to create a database entry.
Am I going about this the wrong way?
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@DhPandya thanks for the reply!
For my tests I don't want to actually trigger the events mail, broadcast etc. I just want to create entries in the database so I verify they are being accessed and displayed correctly.
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@bwrigley Thus you should go with Model Factories.
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@DhPandya That would be great, but there is no Notitication model to create a factory from. Or are you suggesting a different way to create them?
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@bwrigley Without a model how you're inserting new notifications?
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@DhPandya using the Trait or Facade
https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/notifications#main-content
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@bwrigley https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/mocking. This is what you are looking for. You have to create test for it.
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@DhPandya the problem I have is that when I use Notification::Fake() that prevents creating the database entries.
I want to be able to call $user->notifications() and return a list of seeded notifications to test with.
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