Fluent Test Helper

Few classes to make your Symfony tests more readable

Symfony 5 & 6

composer require --dev nebkam/fluent-test

Symfony 3 & 4

composer require --dev nebkam/fluent-test:"^2.0"

RequestBuilder

Since Symfony\Bundle\FrameworkBundle\KernelBrowser::request has 7 optional parameters, arbitrary ordered, this class follows a builder pattern to construct the request using semantic methods.

Usage

// Before
$response = $client->request($method, $uri, $parameters, $files, $server, $content);

// After
$response = RequestBuilder::create($client)
  ->setMethod($method)
  ->setUri($uri)
  ->setParameters($parameters)
  ->setFiles($files)
  ->setContent($content)
  ->getResponse();

What about $server parameter?

There's no RequestBuilder::setServer method, since it seemed to general to be semantic. Instead, you can use more specific methods (Thanks, @KristijanKanalas):

• setHeader
• setHttpHeader
• setCredentials

(if you think of some other uses of server variables, feel free to write a semantic method for it in a PR)

setHeader

// Before
$response = $client->request($method, $uri, $parameters, $files, [
  'CONTENT_TYPE' => $value
  ], $content);

// After
$response = RequestBuilder::create($client)
  ->setHeader('CONTENT_TYPE', $value)
  ...

setHttpHeader

// Before
$response = $client->request($method, $uri, $parameters, $files, [
  'HTTP_X-Custom-Header' => $value
  ], $content);

// After
$response = RequestBuilder::create($client)
  ->setHttpHeader('X-Custom-Header', $value)
  ...

setCredentials

// Before
$response = $client->request($method, $uri, $parameters, $files, [
  'PHP_AUTH_USER' => $username,
  'PHP_AUTH_PW' => $password
  ], $content);

//After
$response = RequestBuilder::create($client)
  ->setCredentials($username, $password)
  ...

setJsonContent

Send a JSON encoded payload with the request

// Before
$response = $client->request($method, $uri, $parameters, $files, $server, json_encode($content));

// After
$response = RequestBuilder::create($client)
  ->setJsonContent($content)
  ...

Dynamic URIs

setUri accepts either a plain string or sprintf -compatible parameters (format and values)

// This works
$response = RequestBuilder::create($client)
  ->setUri('/users/'. $email .'/details')
  ...

// This is more readable
$response = RequestBuilder::create($client)
  ->setUri('/users/%s/details', $email)
  ...

ResponseWrapper

A decorator for Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response that wraps the response and provides few semantic issers to make asserts more readable

Usage

// Before
$client->request($method, $uri, $parameters, $files, $server, $content);
$response = $client->getResponse();
$this->assertEquals(200,$response->getStatusCode())

// After
$response = RequestBuilder::create($client)
  ...
  ->getResponse();
$this->assertTrue($response->isOk());

List of issers

• isBadRequest
• isCreated
• isEmpty
• isForbidden
• isNotFound
• isOk
• isUnauthorized
• isUnprocessable

getJsonContent

Get a JSON decoded body from the response

// Before
$response = $client->request($method, $uri, $parameters, $files, $server, $content);
$data = json_decode($client->getResponse());

// After
$data = RequestBuilder::create($client)
  ...
  ->getResponse()
  ->getJsonContent();