I am writing my unit tests with phpunit to Laravel application. I am using Eloquent and Woodling library. I want to test many to many relationship.
I have Users table and Friends table. Everything worked, when I tested it manually. I am able to add friends. I wanted to test this functionality.
I created blueprints and I call them with saved method like this.
$user = Woodling::saved('LonelyUser');
$user2 = Woodling::saved('LonelyUser2');
$users = User::all()->toArray();
var_dump($users);
$user->addFriend($user2);
I got a database constraint error in the last line, because the users were not persisted to database (I know that, because they are not in var_dump output).
If Woodling::saved does not persist to database, than what does it do? The docs say, that it calls save method on model. save method should persist the model to database.
What is the saved method purpose and how is it different than retrieve?
Woodling::saved persists to database correctly, but if something goes wrong during saving, it doesn't show any errors. In my case save method was actually Ardent::save, which does some validations. This validations did not pass and Model::save was never called.