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In the Symfony2 documentation it gives the simple example of:

$client->request('POST', '/submit', array('name' => 'Fabien'), array('photo' => '/path/to/photo'));

To simulate a file upload.

However in all my tests I am getting nothing in the $request object in the app and nothing in the $_FILES array.

Here is a simple WebTestCase which is failing. It is self contained and tests the request that the $client constructs based on the parameters you pass in. It's not testing the app.

class UploadTest extends WebTestCase { public function testNewPhotos() { $client = $this->createClient(); $client->request( 'POST', '/submit', array('name' => 'Fabien'), array('photo' => __FILE__) ); $this->assertEquals(1, count($client->getRequest()->files->all())); } }

Just to be clear. This is not a question about how to do file uploads, that I can do. It is about how to test them in Symfony2.

Edit

I'm convinced I'm doing it right. So I've created a test for the Framework and made a pull request. https://github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/1891

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  • I think that this question should be closed or mark as answered, I've follow this conversation: github.com/symfony/symfony/pull/1891 and it seems that was just a problem with documentation. Commented Nov 7, 2011 at 19:47

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This was an error in the documentation.

Fixed here:

use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\File\UploadedFile; $photo = new UploadedFile('/path/to/photo.jpg', 'photo.jpg', 'image/jpeg', 123); // or $photo = array('tmp_name' => '/path/to/photo.jpg', 'name' => 'photo.jpg', 'type' => 'image/jpeg', 'size' => 123, 'error' => UPLOAD_ERR_OK); $client = static::createClient(); $client->request('POST', '/submit', array('name' => 'Fabien'), array('photo' => $photo));

Documentation here

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Here is a code which works with Symfony 2.3 (I didn't tried with another version):

I created an photo.jpg image file and put it in Acme\Bundle\Tests\uploads.

Here is an excerpt from Acme\Bundle\Tests\Controller\AcmeTest.php:

function testUpload() { // Open the page ... // Select the file from the filesystem $image = new UploadedFile( // Path to the file to send dirname(__FILE__).'/../uploads/photo.jpg', // Name of the sent file 'filename.jpg', // MIME type 'image/jpeg', // Size of the file 9988 ); // Select the form (adapt it for your needs) $form = $crawler->filter('input[type=submit]...')->form(); // Put the file in the upload field $form['... name of your field ....']->upload($image); // Send it $crawler = $this->client->submit($form); // Check that the file has been successfully sent // (in my case the filename is displayed in a <a> link so I check // that it appears on the page) $this->assertEquals( 1, $crawler->filter('a:contains("filename.jpg")')->count() ); }
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on the created UploadedFile object $file->isValid() fails. any idea why?
@astroanu please add a new question to explain your problem.
Still works on Symfony 5.0, except the UploadedFile constructor removes the file size and added error & test.
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if you want to mock a UploadedFile without a client request, you can use:

 $path = 'path/to/file.test'; $originalName = 'original_name.test'; $file = new UploadedFile($path, $originalName, null, UPLOAD_ERR_OK, true); $testSubject->method($file);
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The fifth parameter active the "test" mode, in order to not trigger HTTP real upload in test.
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I found this article, https://coderwall.com/p/vp52ew/symfony2-unit-testing-uploaded-file, and works perfect.

Regards

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this is a much better solution. Unit test where you can!
Please include the code in your answer so your answer will be still valid if the page disappear.
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Even if the question is related to Symfony2, it appears in the top results when searching for Symfony4 in Google.

Instancing an UploadedFile works, but the shortest way I found was also actually in the official documentation:

$crawler = $client->request('GET', '/post/hello-world'); $buttonCrawlerNode = $crawler->selectButton('submit'); $form = $buttonCrawlerNode->form(); $form['photo']->upload('/path/to/lucas.jpg');

https://symfony.com/doc/current/testing.html#forms

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