Scenario
A controller creates data and then redirects:
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| class UserController extends Controller {
public function create(Request $request) {
$user = User::create($request->all());
return redirect(uri('users.show', ['id' => $user->id]));
}
}
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When writing tests, you want to verify the content of the page after the redirect, but $this->post(...) only returns a 302 response – you can’t see the final page.
Solution
Add followingRedirects() to make the test automatically follow the redirect:
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| class UserControllerTest extends TestCase {
public function test_it_should_show_user_after_create_user() {
$this
->followingRedirects()
->post('user', [
'name' => 'foo'
]);
}
}
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Laravel < 5.4.12
In older versions, the method name drops the “ing”:
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| $this->followRedirects()->post('user', ['name' => 'foo']);
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