Authentication failed in laravel test

Question

I'm trying to write a test but I can't authenticate with a fake test user, I'm using mongodb, jenssegers/laravel-mongodb and jwt-auth

this is the factory I've created

<?php

/** @var \Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Factory $factory */

use Faker\Generator as Faker;
use Illuminate\Support\Str;

$factory->define(\App\User::class, function (Faker $faker) {
    return [
        'username' => $faker->name(),
        'password' => $faker->password()
       
    ];
});

phpunit.xml file

<php>
  <server name="APP_ENV" value="testing"/>
  <server name="BCRYPT_ROUNDS" value="4"/>
  <server name="CACHE_DRIVER" value="array"/>
  <server name="DB_CONNECTION" value="mongodb"/>
  <server name="DB_DATABASE" value=":memory:"/>
  <server name="MAIL_DRIVER" value="array"/>
  <server name="QUEUE_CONNECTION" value="sync"/>
  <server name="SESSION_DRIVER" value="array"/>
</php>

this is the test

p

ublic function test_if_can_customer(){
        $this->withoutExceptionHandling();
        $user = User::factory()->make();

        $url = '/customer/12345646';
        $response = $this->actingAs($user,'api')
                         ->json('GET', $url);
    
        $response
            ->assertStatus(200)
            ->assertJson([
                'meta'=>[
                    'success'=>true
            ]
       ]);
}

and I get this error:

1) Tests\Feature\LeadTest::test_if_can_get_customer
MongoDB\Driver\Exception\AuthenticationException: Authentication failed.
 

UPDATE:

If I use sqlite instead of mongodb

<php>
        <server name="APP_ENV" value="testing"/>
        <server name="BCRYPT_ROUNDS" value="4"/>
        <server name="CACHE_DRIVER" value="array"/>
        <server name="DB_CONNECTION" value="sqlite"/>
        <server name="DB_DATABASE" value=":memory:"/>
        <server name="MAIL_DRIVER" value="array"/>
        <server name="QUEUE_CONNECTION" value="sync"/>
        <server name="SESSION_DRIVER" value="array"/>
    </php>

I get this error:

TypeError: Argument 1 passed to Jenssegers\Mongodb\Query\Builder::__construct() must be an instance of Jenssegers\Mongodb\Connection, instance of Illuminate\Database\SQLiteConnection given, called in /home/myuser/myproject/vendor/jenssegers/mongodb/src/Jenssegers/Mongodb/Eloquent/Model.php on line 415

Answer 1

Your factory and test code never run because the connection to the test database is failing. It's failing because MongoDB needs a username and password but you didn't specify it in your phpunit.xml.

However, like Kenny Horna said in his comment above, you should use SQLite for testing instead of mongoDB.

In your phpunit.xml, change your DB_CONNECTION to sqlite:

  <server name="DB_CONNECTION" value="sqlite"/>