Unit Testing File Upload Postprocessing

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Hello everyone!

I’ve been trying my hands on a somewhat stateless file upload: User uploads a file, the controller processes it and returns a form with pre-filled out fields based on the values from the file. The uploaded file is not saved in any manner.
Fortunately, I was successful :stuck_out_tongue:
Now, I want to write unit tests for this function, and I am stuck as to how I would approach that.
I’ve tried already to use setFiles() in the test case like so:

$request = $this->getRequest();
$request->setFiles(new Parameters(
                [
                    'fileUpload' => [
                        'name' => 'project.xml',
                        'type' => 'text/xml',
                        'tmp_name' => __DIR__.'/project.xml',
                        'error' => 0,
                        'size' => 128885
                    ]
                ]
            ));
        $this->dispatch('/thing/add', 'POST', ['importButton' => 'Import']);

But PHP considers this ‘an illegal file upload’ (which is understandable imho).
How would I ‘legally’ upload a file in this scenario? Or is another approach such as overwriting the $form->isValid() (in the controller) via stub more viable?

Thanks a lot!

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You can define the PHP’s global variable $_FILES like below

        $_FILES['files'] = [
            'name' => [
                'project.xml'
            ],
            'type' => [
                'text/xml'
            ],
            'tmp_name' => [
                __DIR__ . '/project.xml'
            ],
            'error' => [
                0
            ],
            'size' => [
                128885
            ]
        ];
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Hope this helps