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Application Testing

Note: At the moment it's not possible to use :memory: SQLite databases or the RefreshDatabase trait due to the switching of default database. This will hopefully change in the future.

Initializing tenancy

You can create tenants in the setUp() method of your test case:

protected function setUp(): void
{
    parent::setUp();

    tenancy()->create('test.localhost');
    tenancy()->init('test.localhost');
}

If you don't want to initialize tenancy before each test, you may want to do something like this:

class TestCase // extends ...
{
    protected $tenancy = false;

    public function setUp(): void
    {
        if ($this->tenancy) {
            $this->initializeTenancy();
        }
    }

    public function initializeTenancy($domain = 'test.localhost')
    {
        tenancy()->create($domain);
        tenancy()->init($domain);
    }

    // ...
}

And in your individual test classes:

class FooTest
{
    protected $tenancy = true;

    /** @test  */
    public function some_test()
    {
        $this->assertTrue(...);
    }
}

Cleanup

To delete tenants & their databases after tests, you may use this:

public function tearDown(): void
{
    config([
        'tenancy.queue_database_deletion' => false,
        'tenancy.delete_database_after_tenant_deletion' => true,
    ]);
    tenancy()->all()->each->delete();

    parent::tearDown();
}

Storage setup

If you're using the database storage driver, you will need to run the migrations in setUp():

protected function setUp(): void
{
    parent::setUp();

    $this->artisan('migrate:fresh');

    // ...
}

If you're using the Redis storage driver, flush the database in setUp():

protected function setUp(): void
{
    parent::setUp();

    // make sure you're using a different connection for testing to avoid losing data
    Redis::connection('tenancyTesting')->flushdb();

    // ...
}

Sample TestCase

Put together, here's a ready-to-use base TestCase for the DB storage driver

<?php

namespace Tests;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\TestCase as BaseTestCase;

abstract class TestCase extends BaseTestCase
{
    use CreatesApplication;

    public function setUp(): void
    {
        parent::setUp();

        $this->artisan('migrate:fresh');

        config([
            'tenancy.queue_database_creation' => false,
        ]);

        config(['tenancy.exempt_domains' => [
            '127.0.0.1',
            'localhost',
        ]]);
    }

    public function tearDown(): void
    {
        config([
            'tenancy.queue_database_deletion' => false,
            'tenancy.delete_database_after_tenant_deletion' => true,
        ]);
        tenancy()->all()->each->delete();

        parent::tearDown();
    }
}

phpunit.xml:

<server name="DB_CONNECTION" value="sqlite"/>
<server name="DB_DATABASE" value="database/testing.sqlite"/>

Don't forget to create an empty database/testing.sqlite

You may also wish to add testing.sqlite to database/.gitignore.