how to change Behat path from Public folder to different folder name

Question

I am having an issue with testing a Laravel app I have inherited.

The folder that is usually labelled as "public" was renamed to "html".

The app itself works fine, but when Behat tests run it still looks for a public folder. I have been working around it by just copying the "html" file and renaming it as public, but I would like to just fix this so I can get some other co workers testing this app.

I have looked in the Behat documentation and was unable to find it. I also googled this quite a bit but did not find anything addressing it.

Anyone know how to set this path so instead of looking for a folder called "public" I can change it to look for a folder called "html."

The exact error I get is

Warning: file_get_contents(/Library/WebServer/Documents/myApp/myApp/public/build/rev-manifest.json): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /Library/WebServer/Documents/thirdspace-app/thirdspace/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/helpers.php line 668

So the public in the above path needs to be html.

That code that is being referenced in that error looks like below

 if ( ! function_exists('elixir'))
{

  function elixir($file)
  {
      static $manifest = null;

      if (is_null($manifest))
      {
          $manifest = json_decode(file_get_contents(public_path().'/build/rev-manifest.json'), true);
      }

      if (isset($manifest[$file]))
      {
            return '/build/'.$manifest[$file];
      }

      throw new InvalidArgumentException("File {$file} not defined in asset manifest.");
  }
}

I do not really want to change this however because I think this will affect the app itself. I just want to send the test looking for html in stead of public. I really just want to make sure the solution to ths only affects the tests, not the app itself.

Answer 1

This uses the Laravel helper function public_path() which will always return a path expecting a directory called public.

There are a few different ways to overwrite this, but this is probably the simplest. In order that this runs before Behat, define this in bootstrap/app.php:

$app->bind('path.public', function() {
    return base_path().'/html';
});