How to do POST request in Codeception FunctionalTest with JSON Body

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Im using Codeception with Yii2. I need to do a POST request with json content body. I dont want to use REST module cause have not even been able config it yet. (Thats a longer story...)

I have been able to write my GET tests fantastic. Now with the first POST test, Im stuck.

  1. There is a $I->amOnPage([]) method in Functional Test which can only do GET request.
  2. sendAjaxPost does not allow sending content body with POST.
  3. $I->sendPOST('api/xyz',"{\"xyz\":1}") also did not work cause Yii did not get any route so instead loaded the homepage. The path got lost in the call stacks.
  4. There is a InnerBrowser->_loadPage method which allows me to do a request with all configurable way but I cannot find a way to access it.

Any way to get access to InnerBrowser object from the test? I have tried $I->getModule('PhpBrowser')->_loadPage or $this->getModule('Yii2')

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2 Answers

You can use I->SendAjaxPostRequest which has an array argument with the POST values to send with the request.

user_87114000

You can update backend code to accept both raw inputs and params, so you can pass array in Codeception test and raw input in api

    $data = json_decode(file_get_contents("php://input"));

    if(!$data) {
        $data = (object) Yii::$app->request->post ();
        $detail = (object) $data->detail;
    } else {
        $detail = $data->detail;
    }
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