Testing Symfony DELETE routes

Question

I'm setting up phpunit for testing, and started with the Controller routes. When I test the 'GET' methods, they work fine. However, the 'DELETE' methods throw an MethodNotAllowedHttpException. NOTE: I'm not testing adding/removing database entities yet, just validating routes.

* @Route("/deviceprofile/{deviceprofile_id}/delete",
*     name="deviceprofile_delete",
*     methods={"DELETE"})

The test class:

class DeviceProfileControllerTest extends WebTestCase
{
    public function testRouteDelete()
    {
        $client = static::createClient();
        $client->followRedirects(true);
        $client->request('DELETE', '/deviceprofile/1/delete');
        $this->assertResponseIsSuccessful();
    }
}

The phpunit error:

Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\MethodNotAllowedHttpException: No route found for "GET /1/delete": Method Not Allowed (Allow: DELETE)

Based on the error, it appears that my $client->request is only doing 'GETs' regardless of the method listed.

So, what function should I be calling to test a 'DELETE' method?

EDIT: here is the bin/console debug:router listing:

deviceprofile_delete    DELETE    ANY    ANY 
   /deviceprofile/{deviceprofile_id}/delete

UPDATE: it also appears that 'POST' method only routes also fail.

There shouldn't be any difference between testing DELETE or any other method. Try using php bin/console debug:router to debug routes. — Leprechaun
The issue isn't the route itself, the route works great. The problem is that when calling the WebTestCase::createClient()->request, it doesn't appear to like 'DELETE' as a method. As the phpunit error suggests, it's still trying to do a 'GET' for that route, not a 'DELETE' — profm2
Maybe it's a cache issue? Try clearing cache for with --env=test — Leprechaun
Cleared the cache, phpunit still spits out: No route found for "GET /deviceprofile/1/delete": Method Not Allowed (Allow: DELETE) The request SHOULD be: "DELETE /deviceprofile/1/delete" — profm2

profm2 profm2 · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-17T16:02:08

Without the $client->followRedirects(true);, phpunit fails assertions of 301 redirects.

And with those problems now visible, and it showed that I was not properly authenticating.

Ended up finding this document that helped: https://symfony.com/doc/4.4/testing/http_authentication.html

Testing Symfony DELETE routes

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