Unit Testing JSON responses in Laravel

Question

I do:

$this->post('/v1/customer', ['area' => 'kil'])
        ->seeJson(['created' => true]);

But instead of created => true, I would like to do "NOT STATEMENTS". Ex: parent!=null or created_at > '0000-00-00'

How can this be achieved?

obtain the json response, decode it and use PHPUnit assertions — gontrollez
– gontrollez, Commented Sep 9, 2015 at 9:09

J.T. Grimes · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-09 15:15:01Z

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Laravel does have a dontSeeJson function which would solve both of the examples you've listed (though possibly not a more general case) --

$this->dontSeeJson(['parent' => null]);

$this->dontSeeJson(['created_at' => '0000-00-00']);

If you need something more specific, I agree with @gontrollez - decode the json (json_decode($this->response->getContent(), true)) and test that.

answered Sep 9, 2015 at 15:15

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Yes. Thats the way I went. Was hoping for a better way though. :)