Unable to access the response before visiting a page

[mbittner]

The "Then" step in my scenario erros out saying "Unable to access the response before visiting a page". Installed it today, with composer "imbo/behat-api-extension": "^2.0",

Any idea what can cause this? I seem pretty inline with the documentation, I set my body/header prior to the When step that should actually do the HTTP GET.

Here is my scenario:

    Scenario: Test POST
      Given the request body is:
        """
        {"some":"data"}
        """
      And the "Content-Type" request header is "application/json"
      When I request "/api/performers" using HTTP GET
      Then the response status code should not be 200

[mbittner]

So it seems that the "Then the response status code should not be 200" do not use the same response object used by the When I request step.

The "When I request" step is define by your extension and the "response status code" is defined by the MinkContext.

Is there a way to use both step in the same scnenario?

[christeredvartsen]

That might be tricky. I haven't looked into Mink, so I'm not sure if it would be possible to share responses. That would require that both extensions use the same library for requests / responses though. That might actually be the case already for all I know.

imbo/behat-api-extension has a step quite similar to the Then-step you are using though:

Then the response code is :code
Then the response code is not :code

[christeredvartsen]

imbo/behat-api-extension uses Guzzle 6, which uses PSR-7 interfaces for requests and responses, so if Mink uses a library which also uses PSR-7 the exchange of the response should be doable.

[christeredvartsen]

It seems Mink itself doesn't do the actual HTTP requests, but simply forwards them to the driver in use, which might not even be written in PHP, so there isn't a feasible way to do what you're asking.

Closing this issue for now.