Laravel unittest failing with no matching handler found for Auth::attempt

Question

I seem to be running into an issue with my login test with conditions. My login handler checks that the email and password are valid as well as the user being confirmed. The following test cases pass:

public function test_redirect_to_login_if_login_fails()
{
    // enable filters to test login
    Route::enableFilters();
    // some fake credentials to use
    $credentials = [
        'email'=>'[email protected]',
        'password'=>'badpassword',
        'confirmed'=>1
    ];
    // mock the Auth class
    Auth::shouldReceive('attempt')
        ->once()
        ->with($credentials)
        ->andReturn(false);
    // call the login post with the credentials
    $this->call('POST','login',$credentials);
    // assert that we are redirected back to the entry page
    $this->assertRedirectedToRoute('entry');
}

public function test_redirect_if_login_success()
    {
        // enable filtere to test login
        Route::enableFilters();
        // some fake credentials to use
        $credentials = [
            'email'=>'[email protected]',
            'password'=>'Pa55w0rd',
            'confirmed'=>1
        ];
        // mock the Auth class
        Auth::shouldReceive('attempt')
            ->once()
            ->with($credentials)
            ->andReturn(true);
        // call the login post with the proper credentials
        $response = $this->call('POST','login',$credentials);
        // assert the response is good
        $this->assertTrue($response->isRedirection());
    }

This one however, gives me an error - though it's very similar to the first test case above:

public function test_redirect_if_user_is_not_confirmed()
    {
        // enable filters to test login
        Route::enableFilters();
        // some fake credentials to use
        $credentials = [
            'email'=>'[email protected]',
            'password'=>'badpassword',
            'confirmed'=>0
        ];

        // mock the Auth class
        Auth::shouldReceive('attempt')
            ->once()
            ->with($credentials)
            ->andReturn(false);
        // call the login post with the credentials
        $this->call('POST','login',$credentials);
        // assert that we are redirected back to the entry page
        $this->assertRedirectedToRoute('entry');
    }

The error:

Mockery\Exception\NoMatchingExpecationException: No matching handler found for Mockery_0_Illumnate_Auth_AuthManager::attempt(array('email'=>'[email protected]','password'=>'badpassword','confirmed'=>1,)). Either the method was unexpected or its arguments matched no expected argument list for this method.

My controller method:

public function store()
{
    if (Auth::attempt(array("email"=>Input::get('email'),"password"=>Input::get('password'),'confirmed'=>1)))
    {
        return Redirect::intended('home');
    }
    return Redirect::route("entry")->with("danger",Lang::get('orientation.invalid'))->withInput();
}

Laurence Laurence · Accepted Answer · 2014-12-30T07:17:09

Your test is failing correctly - because your supplying the wrong data to the test.

You have the mock of Auth to receive:

Auth::shouldReceive('attempt')
        ->once()
        ->with($credentials)
        ->andReturn(false);

Specifically that it should receive ->with($credentials). But you have defined $credentials as having confirmed => 0 when your controller is always going to be sending confirmed => 1 because that is what is hard coded.

Instead - you should still be expecting to receive confirmed => 1 in your test - but mocking a false return because no matching record is found.

This should work:

// some fake credentials to use
        $credentials = [
            'email'=>'[email protected]',
            'password'=>'badpassword',
            'confirmed'=>1
        ];

Laravel unittest failing with no matching handler found for Auth::attempt

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