moon/fakemiddleware

A small Laravel 5 package to disable a middleware in testing environment

FakeMiddleware

, _(*1)

Sometimes you want to disable a middleware/route middleware when testing a controller in Laravel 5. This package simplifies the process., _(*2)

Installation

composer require --dev "moon/fakemiddleware": "1.1"

Usage

Open TestCase.php, which comes with L5 by default. Locate createApplication method and initialize FakeMiddleware., _(*3)

use Moon\FakeMiddleware\FakeMiddleware;

public function createApplication()
{
    $app = require __DIR__.'/../bootstrap/app.php';
    $app->make('Illuminate\Contracts\Console\Kernel')->bootstrap();

    // This will remove ExternalOAuthVerifier and repalce auth middleware
    // with a fake middleware
    // function __construct(Application $app, $globalMiddlewares, $routeMiddlewares);
    new FakeMiddleware($app, ['App\Http\Middleware\ExternalOAuthVerifier'], ['auth']);

    return $app;
}