Log message #4265107

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# Jun 10th 2021, 17:53 kevin.pfeifer you need to load them in your setup function
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:53 kevin.pfeifer routes are not loaded automatically in tests
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:51 tyler.adam.lazenby ```public function testSendEmail(): void { $referral_url = Router::url([ 'controller' => 'Contacts', 'action' => 'view', 1 ], true); $headers = ['referrer' => $referral_url]; $this->configRequest([ 'headers' => $headers ]); $this->get('contact/send-email'); $data = json_decode($this->_getBodyAsString()); dd($data); }```
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:51 tyler.adam.lazenby Cake\Routing\Exception\MissingRouteException : A route matching "array ( 'controller' => 'Contacts', 'action' => 'view', 0 => 1, 'plugin' => NULL, '_ext' => NULL, )" could not be found.
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:51 tyler.adam.lazenby Well that is all well and good, until you have this error because phpunit doesn't build the router
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:48 kevin.pfeifer didn’t read slack before posting :,)
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:48 kevin.pfeifer well
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:48 kevin.pfeifer ``` $this->configRequest([ 'headers' => ['Accept' => 'application/json'] ]);```
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:45 tyler.adam.lazenby Oof thanks
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:45 greg138 https://book.cakephp.org/3/en/development/testing.html#setting-up-the-request
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:44 tyler.adam.lazenby Hetting the appropriate header with phpunit?
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:44 greg138 That's just a matter of setting the appropriate header in your simulated call to `send-email`.
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:44 tyler.adam.lazenby exactly
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:44 kevin.pfeifer so you check the url / referrer of that ajax call in your controller function?
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:42 tyler.adam.lazenby to `/contacts/send-email`
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:42 tyler.adam.lazenby I just want to simulate for example making a get request from /appname/contacts/view/1
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:41 greg138 Simulate which part of it? There's great support for testing controller actions with any method you want and any data you care to pass to them.
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:41 kevin.pfeifer now i understand
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:41 kevin.pfeifer ahhhhhh
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:41 tyler.adam.lazenby sorry just lots of issues and my adhd brain is developing code and asking at the same time
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:40 tyler.adam.lazenby problem is how do you simulate making the request from a page with unit testing?
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:40 greg138 If it's something that's going to be invariant, why wouldn't you use a unit test? It confirms your initial code, and also makes sure it keeps working forever.
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:39 kevin.pfeifer why should that be janky?
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:39 kevin.pfeifer ok then i totally dont get what youre asking :,)
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:39 tyler.adam.lazenby Just seems janky
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:38 tyler.adam.lazenby hahaha yeah yeah I know
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:38 kevin.pfeifer well you can set a xdebug breakpoint in a test as well if you want :)
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:38 tyler.adam.lazenby and I use PHPstorm so unit testing is very easy
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:37 tyler.adam.lazenby because I use a CI
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:37 tyler.adam.lazenby ok, I get that, but I also am unit testing lol
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:37 kevin.pfeifer in this case where you probably just return json data and want to check what is in a variable you can also just log the variable with `Log::write()`
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:35 tyler.adam.lazenby I personally make heavy use of `debug()` and `dd()`
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:34 tyler.adam.lazenby without having to pass that
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:34 tyler.adam.lazenby I am basically trying to make an ajax command that will check if the page making the request is contact action called view, and then check to see what the ID of the viewed item is
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:34 kevin.pfeifer but I know enough people who still prefer/löve `var_dump()` aka `pr()`
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:34 tyler.adam.lazenby hahaha
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:33 kevin.pfeifer I basically can't live without xdebug any more :)
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:33 tyler.adam.lazenby exactly, like if for example I am making sure I am getting the referrer's parsed parameters
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:28 kevin.pfeifer like when you are first creating the logic for that controller action?
# Jun 10th 2021, 17:26 tyler.adam.lazenby when you are first going through creating a controller action, and want to make sure you are getting the right information passed, do you use unit testing (as opposed to just echoing it to the screen) or is there a more "standard" approach?
# Jun 10th 2021, 13:52 philo.hamel see `colType`