If you follow a TDD approach to develop your software, and also a Laravel user, working with a JSON API, you might have experienced some date assertion issues while asserting Json with Laravel 7. Previously, when Laravel was using Carbon 1 for date management, it would not return the whole Carbon object for assertJson. Which is why, the following would work in a sample PHPUnit Test:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But as of now, Carbon 2, returns the whole Carbon object for $contact->meeting_date here, the assertion will fair, because the $response, didn’t get a Carbon object, instead a Json string here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n If you go through the Carbon documentation here<\/a>, you can see the following under the section ‘Migrate to Carbon 2’:<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is basically what you need to use if you are on Laravel 7 with Carbon 2. You need to serialize the data as Laravel is not doing it for you automatically here to fix this up. Just change the ‘meeting_date’ to the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n and this should let your assertion pass. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Remember, you might not need to explicitly do this in your controller return until you are following a TDD based development where an assertion to pass is important to continue the process. Laravel resource would implicitly serialize your data before returning them from controller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If you follow a TDD approach to develop your software, and also a Laravel user, working with a JSON API, you might have experienced some date assertion issues while asserting Json with Laravel 7. Previously, when Laravel was using Carbon 1 for date management, it would not return the whole Carbon object for assertJson. Which … Continue reading “TDD: Date Assertions – Laravel 7, PHP 7.* – Carbon 2 – Changes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[318,272,273],"tags":[320,325,324,326,319,321,322,323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":496,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mellowhost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}$contact = factory(Contact::class)->create();
$response = $this->get('\/api\/contacts' . $contact->id);
$response->assertJson([
'name' => $contact->name,
'email' => $contact->email,
'meeting_date' => $contact->meeting_date,
'company' => $contact->company,
]);<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n$date->jsonSerialize() and json_encode($date) no longer returns arrays but simple strings: \"2017-06-27T13:14:15.000000Z\". This allows to create dates from it easier in JavaScript. <\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n'meeting_date' => $contact->meeting_date->jsonSerialize(),<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n