📝 Docs - POST application/x-www-form-urlencoded

[Rikj000]

How can one correctly pass parameters as application/x-www-form-urlencoded data to POST endpoints?

I've been struggling to get this working as following:

it('asserts response code + result', function () {
    // Initialize data
    $request = ['parameter' => 'foo'];
    $response = ['code' => 200, 'result' => 'bar'];
    $headers = ['Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'];
    
    // Test case
    $test_response = $this->post('api/endpoint', $request, $headers);
    $test_response->assertStatus(200)->assertJson($response);
});

The API I'm working within my example,
expects request data as application/x-www-form-urlencoded and responds with application/json.

Original issue: #615

[Rikj000]

I hope there is a better way to do this,
but for now I've managed to work around the issue,
through directly initializing the $_POST parameter inside the it() function:

it('/api/endpoint route asserts status code 200 + expected response', function () {
    // Initialize the POST data
    $_POST = ['parameter' => 'foo'];
    // Initialize the expected response data
    $expected_response = ['code' => 200, 'result' => 'bar'];

    // Run the test case
    $test_response = $this->post('/api/endpoint', $_POST);
    $test_response->assertStatus(200)->assertJson($expected_response);
});

Recommendations for improvements are very welcome! 🙂