Laravel APIDoc Tester
Artisan command for Laravel that will use the APIDoc notations to create and execute API tests, (*1)
Installation
1) Add ylsalame/laravelapidoctester to composer.json, (*2)
"require": {
"ylsalame/laravelapidoctester": "~0.1"
}
2) Update Composer from the CLI:, (*3)
composer update
Usage (Artisan)
php artisan apidoctester
APIDoc Tester scripted tool with a visual interface. This means that you will not have any action executed before you visualy confirm and ackowledge what is going to be done. Here is an example of what the interface looks like:, (*4)
Command options/flags
api_dir
[optional] The directory where API classes/methods are kept (recursively scanned)
[default] /app/Http/Controlers
If no files with APIDoc blocks are found, the script will raise an exception
output_dir
[optional] The directory where APIDoc/Codeception files will be stored
[default] /storage/app/testing/apidoc
APIDoc and Codeception generates multiple files and this arg will define where these will be stored
keep_files
[optional] This stops the script from deleting all APIDoc/Codeception files it has generated, including the api_data.json file.
[default] false
Output
Visual Feedback
The tests will be run using the generated APIDoc .json file and will be shown on screen while they are happening, (*5)
APIDocs files
By default this script deletes everything it creates, including the APIDocs/Codeception files unless the "keep_files" parameter is set to true, (*6)
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