如何在<form>中获取Id以使用click方法进行测试

Question

I tried to get the id from my html to used by click method in unit testing laravel.

here is my html using blade:

<td>
    <form class="form-horizontal" method="post" action="{{ action('AdminWeb\UserController@toggleActivateStatus', $user->id) }}">
        {{ csrf_field() }}
        <button id="user{{$user->id}}" class="btn btn-sm {{ $user->status == 'active' ? 'btn-danger' : 'btn-success' }}" type="submit">{{ $user->status == 'active' ? 'Deactivate' : 'Activate' }}</button>
    </form>
</td>

notice that I generate the id element in <button> using id="user{{$user->id}}"

so I tried to get that id for example id=user3 in my test class like this :

public function testActivateUser()
  {
    $this->visit('users')
      ->click('user3')
      ->seePageis('users');
  }

but I unable to get it :

UserControllerTest::testActivateUser
InvalidArgumentException: Could not find a link with a body, name, or ID attribute of [user3].

any help? thanks.

Answer 1

Click method does not work with buttons, as the exception says, it only works with links. You can try the following:

...
    <form>
        <button name="activate-user-{{ $user->id }}"></button>
    </form>
...

and within your test

/**
 * A basic user activation test.
 *
 * @return void
 */
public function testActivateUser()
{
    $this->visit('/users')->press('activate-user-1');
}