Error in Laravel Test when I tried to logout an logged user: - testing

Question

I'm facing some problem when I attempt to run a test for know if a user can do logout properly. I'm stuck since one day ago and I can't find the answer in any place.
I'm calling to the route('api.logout') the response is a 500 error and the error says I'm trying to using the method delete() on null.
This is my test file:
namespace Tests\Feature;
use App\Models\User;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factory;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\RefreshDatabase;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithoutMiddleware;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;
use Tests\TestCase;
class AuthControllerTest extends TestCase
{
use RefreshDatabase, WithoutMiddleware;
private array $userData;
public function setUp(): void
{
parent::setUp();
$this->userData = [
'email' => 'admin#mydomain.com',
'password' => '12345633',
'password_confirmation' => '12345633',
'name' => 'admin',
'remember_me' => true
];
}
public function test_can_register_a_user(): void
{
$response = $this->post(route('api.register'), $this->userData);
$response->assertStatus(Response::HTTP_OK);
$content = $response->json();
$this->assertNotNull($content['id']);
}
public function test_can_login_a_user(): void
{
$this->test_can_register_a_user();
$response = $this->post(route('api.login', $this->userData));
$response->assertStatus(Response::HTTP_OK);
$content = $response->json();
$this->assertNotNull($content['id']);
}
public function test_can_logout_a_user(): void
{
$this->test_can_login_a_user();
$user = User::where('email', '=', $this->userData['email'])->first();
$this->actingAs($user);
$response = $this->delete(route('api.logout'));
$response->assertStatus(Response::HTTP_OK);
}
}
This is my logout function in the controller:
public function logout(Request $request)
{
$user = auth()->user();
$user->currentAccessToken()->delete();
}
Also I tried doing a Session::start() in test_can_logout_a_user and using $this->be instead of actingAs, but nothing works for me. The $user exists but it doesn't have any tokens. If I run $user->tokens() I got 0 tokens.
I'm using SQLITE type of database and :memory: in the phpunit.xml.
It works fine when I use POSTMAN or INSOMNIA, but it doesn't work when I'm running that test.
Thank you very much.
I'm using Sanctum for authentication
This seems to be a problem with Laravel 9 and Sanctum. I've updated the code in the test and logout function
public function test_can_logout_a_user(): void
{
$user = User::create($this->userData);
$token = $user->createToken('Test token')->plainTextToken;
$response = $this->json('DELETE', route('api.auth.logout'), [], ['Authorization' => "Bearer $token"]);
$response->assertStatus(Response::HTTP_OK);
}
use Laravel\Sanctum\PersonalAccessToken;
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public function logout(Request $request)
{
$accessToken = $request->bearerToken();
$token = PersonalAccessToken::findToken($accessToken);
$token->delete();
}

Answer 1

In your test you use the WithoutMiddleware meaning and you disable part of the code which you should test and runs in all other cases (postman, insomnia) . Why you need that? You can disabled specifice middlewares with the withoutMiddleware(['name_of_middleware']) but for the login process i don't recomment it.