How to test authentication via API with Laravel Passport?

Question

I\'m trying to test the authentication with Laravel\'s Passport and there\'s no way... always received a 401 of that client is invalid, I\'ll leave you what I\'ve tried:

Answer 1

Testing Personal Access Tokens

Here is an example for any who are looking to test your api using personal access tokens.

First, set up the test class

protected function setUp(): void
{
    parent::setUp();
    $this->actingAs(User::first());
    $this->access_token = $this->getAccessToken();
}

As for the getAccessToken() method, just use the Passport frontend api

private function getAccessToken()
{
    $response = $this->post('/oauth/personal-access-tokens',[
        'name' => 'temp-test-token'
    ]);

    return $response->json('accessToken');
}

And simply:

public function the_personal_access_token_allows_us_to_use_the_api()
{
    $response = $this->get('/api/user', [
        'Authorization' => "Bearer $this->access_token"
    ]);


    $response->assertStatus(200);

}