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TL;DR

For writing tests and mocking Http responses using files saved in my tests/fixtures folder. Yes some people hit the real API and this has it's place but when working with APIs it is nice and faster not to hit the API for a lot of reasons.

Overview

For all my projects that talk to APIs I will save copies of the API results to my tests folder and use that data to test against.

For example if I GET "https://foo.com/api/bar" and get back:

{
    "baz": "boo"
}

Then I save that as a file to my tests/fixtures/foo_get_response.json

Then in my test I will mock it with Http or other tool

$data = get_fixture('foo_get_response.json')
Http::fake(
    [
        'foo.com/*' => Http::response($data, 200)
    ]
);

Before I had this helper I would have to write this all out:

$data = File::get(base_path(sprintf(
            'tests/fixtures/%s',
            $file_name
        )));

$data = json_decode($results, true);

Installation

You can install the package via composer:

composer require alnutile/fixtures

Then (since I can not figure out a way around this) add it to your composer.json file:

    "autoload": {
        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "app/",
            //some stuff is here
        },
        "files": [
            "vendor/alnutile/fixtures/src/helpers.php"
        ]
    },

The run:

composer dump

Testing

composer test

Changelog

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Contributing

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Credits

• Alfred Nutile
• All Contributors

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.