How to mock a service (or a ServiceProvider) when running Feature tests in Laravel?

Question

I\'m writing a small API in Laravel, partly for the purposes of learning this framework. I think I have spotted a gaping hole in the docs, but it may be due to my not unders

Answer 1

The obvious way is to re-bind the implementation in setUp().

Make your self a new UserTestCase (or edit the one provided by Laravel) and add:

abstract class TestCase extends BaseTestCase
{
    use CreatesApplication;

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

        app()->bind(YourService::class, function() { // not a service provider but the target of service provider
            return new YourFakeService();
        });
    }
}

class YourFakeService {} // I personally keep fakes in the test files itself if they are short

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Register providers conditionally based on environment (put this in AppServiceProvider.php or any other provider that you designate for this task - ConditionalLoaderServiceProvider.php or whatever) in register() method

if (app()->environment('testing')) {
    app()->register(FakeUserProvider::class);
} else {
    app()->register(UserProvider::class);
}

Note: drawback is that list of providers is on two places one in config/app.php and one in the AppServiceProvider.php