Symfony functional tests: receive uploaded file

Question

I have an HTML form which contains the following input: <input type="file" name="sentFile" /> The form has NOT been generated with $this->createFormBuilder(). I have written a class that extends WebTestCase. Its testing method does the following:

$crawler = $client->request('GET', '/users/import'); $buttonCrawlerNode = $crawler->selectButton('Import'); $form = $buttonCrawlerNode->form(); $testfile = 'import_users.csv'; $destination = 'F:/www/symfony/web/uploads/' . $testfile; $form['sentFile']->upload($destination); $form['myparam'] = 'hello'; $crawler = $client->submit($form);

But when I run the test with the phpunit command, the controller method which receives the posted form shows an empty $_FILES. The other input (myparam) is correctly received. So how can use the uploaded file?

PS:

I have not succeeded to use PHPT in Symfony (stackoverflow.com/questions/4922207/integrate-phpt-test-cases-with-phpunit/4925061).
I have not tried Selenium yet

References:

Would call to $request->files->keys() return anything in your controller? — Jakub Zalas
– Jakub Zalas, Commented Apr 6, 2013 at 10:41
Thank you Jakub, this solved my problem! I didn't know about this property. So I received this UploadedFile object and requested its properties to map the ones of $_FILE that I used previously in my file processing code. — Swergas
– Swergas, Commented Apr 8, 2013 at 10:27
Just wanted to ask if keepign an absolute path 'F:/www/symfony/web/uploads/' for the uplaod directory is a good practise? — Dimitry K
– Dimitry K, Commented Jun 30, 2014 at 10:22

Swergas · Accepted Answer · 2013-04-08 10:40:40Z

The content of $_FILES does not seems to be changeable to simulate a file upload, so a solution is to use the http://api.symfony.com/2.0/Symfony/Component/HttpFoundation/File/UploadedFile.html class. As Jakub said, when a form is submitted the way I wrote in my question, the Request object of the controller is filled with this content, so we can use $request->files->get('sentFile') to get the UploadedFile that corresponds to the file sent via the sentFile input of the form.

Exactly. Always use Symfony abstractions from the HttpFoundation over global variables.

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