Testing Restful API with codeception (phpbrowser module)
Submitted by Mahmoud_Zalt - 8 years ago
example of how to test API with Codeception and Laravel
1. create an API suite
codecept generate:suite api
or in your functional suite you can continue
2. update the api.suite.yml file to include the necessary modules and add their configs
class_name: ApiTester
modules:
enabled:
- PhpBrowser
- REST
- ApiHelper
- Laravel4
- Asserts
config:
PhpBrowser:
url: http://zzzz.api.xxxx.dev:8008/
REST:
url: http://zzzz.api.xxxx.dev:8008/v1/
3. create first test
codecept generate:cest api MyFirstTest
4. write your code, here is a sample
$I = new ApiTester($scenario);
$I->wantTo('create a user via API');
$I->amHttpAuthenticated('service_user', '123456');
$I->haveHttpHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
$I->sendPOST('users', ['name' => 'mega', 'email' => 'mega@email.com']);
$I->seeResponseCodeIs(200);
$I->seeResponseIsJson();
$I->seeResponseContains('{"result":"ok"}');
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