How do I enable VerifyCsrfToken for some tests?

Question

Laravel by default disables VerifyCsrfToken middleware if running tests. As a result I didn't notice that api routes need csrf token to succeed. Is there a way to enable it back for some tests? Like

function withVerifyCsrfTokenMiddleware()
{
    $this->app...   // here we're passing something to the app
}

And make amendments in VerifyCsrfToken's handle method. In a custom one. The one, that overrides the method from the framework. But that's just my idea. Any better ones?

Answer 1

Okay, here's what I did:

app/Http/Middleware/VerifyCsrfToken.php:

function handle($request, Closure $next)
{
    $dontSkipCsrfVerificationWhenRunningTests
        = $this->app->bound('dontSkipCsrfVerificationWhenRunningTests')
            && $this->app->make('dontSkipCsrfVerificationWhenRunningTests');
    if (
        $this->isReading($request) ||
        ! $dontSkipCsrfVerificationWhenRunningTests && $this->runningUnitTests() ||
        $this->shouldPassThrough($request) ||
        $this->tokensMatch($request)
    ) {
        return $this->addCookieToResponse($request, $next($request));
    }

    throw new TokenMismatchException;
}

tests/TestCase.php:

function withVerifyCsrfTokenMiddleware()
{
    $this->app->instance('dontSkipCsrfVerificationWhenRunningTests', TRUE);
}