testing: Testing redirects to external sites

vendredi 22 avril 2016

I have a link on a page /my/example/page which links to a laravel route my.route.

<a href="/my/route/to/external">Link</a>

This route points to this controller method

public function externalLink()
{
    return $this->redirect->to('www.externalsite.com');
}

My test is

$this->visit(/my/example/page)
     ->click('Link')
     ->assertRedirectedToRoute('my.route');

I constantly get the error

Symfony\Component\HttpKernel\Exception\NotFoundHttpException

I can catch this using @expectedException but his doesn't help as I am expecting to see a different page (eventually) via a redirect.

I can test the actual redirect using

 $response = $this->call('GET', '/my/route/to/external');
 $this->assertResponseStatus(302, $response);

But this does not test the functionality of the link on the page. I have also tried

->assertResponseStatus(302);
->seePageIs('www.externalsite.com');

So the full travel path is

http://ift.tt/1VpbUBW --(click url)--> http://ift.tt/213mEWr --(which redirects to)--> www.externalsite.com

How can I test the link of this page redirects to the external site or even hits the middle url?

testing