Issue with HTTP Feature Testing

I'll try to be as short with this as i can: so I have a test file with contents:

PHP Code:

<?php

namespace MyName\MyPackage;

use CodeIgniter\Test\DatabaseTestTrait;
use CodeIgniter\Test\FeatureTestCase;
use CodeIgniter\Test\FeatureTestTrait;

class EndpointTest extends FeatureTestCase
{
    use DatabaseTestTrait;
    use FeatureTestTrait;

    protected $namespace = 'MyName\MyPackage';
    protected $basePath = VENDORPATH . 'myname/mypackage/src/Database';

    public function testEndpoints()
    {
        $resp = $this->get('mycontroller/amethod');
        $resp->assertStatus(200, 'Endpoint responds.'); // works

        $resp = $this->get('mycontroller/amethod', [
            'token' => 'some-token'
        ]);

        // i have also tried:
        // $resp = $this->get('mycontroller/amethod?token=some-token'); // same exact result as above.

        die();
    }
} 


Within the controller i have a simple check right now just to get parsed query string array:

PHP Code:

<?php

namespace MyName\MyPackage\Controllers;

use App\Controllers\BaseController;

class Mycontroller extends BaseController
{
    public function amethod()
    {
        if (! isset($_GET['token']))
        {
            print_r($_GET);
            var_dump($this->request);

            die(); // this triggers, thus i get no 'token' from my test.
        }
    }
} 


Now i run tests via composer run-script test and results are:

Array() // this is the $_GET array.

object(CodeIgniter\HTTP\IncomingRequest)#103 (20) {
  ["enableCSRF":protected]=> bool(false)
  ["uri"]=> object(CodeIgniter\HTTP\URI)#105 (14) {
    ["uriString":protected]=> NULL
    ["segments":protected]=> array(2) {
      [0]=> string(8) "mycontroller"
      [1]=> string(7) "amethod"
    }
    ["scheme":protected]=> string(5) "https"
    ["user":protected]=> NULL
    ["password":protected]=> NULL
    ["host":protected]=> string(19) "localhost"
    ["port":protected]=> NULL
    ["path":protected]=> string(16) "mycontroller/amethod"
    ["fragment":protected]=> string(0) ""
    ["query":protected]=> array(0) {} // An empty query was sent?
...

Any ideas what i should try or is there a thing that you see right away that is wrong with my code? Any help Helps!

Alright i found an aswer for my own question. I think it has to do with

The $params array does not make sense for every HTTP verb, but is included for consistency.

as written in the manual that not all request types support $params. Maybe GET is one of them. But for sake of consistency i wrote my own tiny solution to request endpoints in testing:

PHP Code:

/**
 * Request endpoint.
 * @method req
 */
public function req(string $type = 'GET', string $url = '', array $params = []):object
{
    # Prepare parameters & type.
    $params = http_build_query($params);
    $type  = strtoupper($type);

    # Base url with get parameters.
    $base_url = rtrim(config('app')->baseURL, '/') . '/' . ltrim($url, '/') . (
        ($type == 'GET')
            ? '?' . $params
            : ''
    );
    $contents = file_get_contents($base_url, context: stream_context_create([
        'ssl' => [
            'verify_peer' => false,
            'verify_peer_name' => false
        ],
        'http' => [
            'method'  => $type,
            'header'  => 'Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' . "\r\n" .
                        'Content-Length: ' . strlen($params) . "\r\n",
            'content' => $params,
            'ignore_errors' => true
        ]
    ]));

    # http headers.
    $httphead = $http_response_header;
    $head = [];

    # Assoc headers.
    foreach ($httphead as $n => $value)
    {
        $explode = explode(':', $value);
        $key = ($n == 0 || count($explode) == 1)
            ? $n
            : strtolower(reset($explode)) ;

        # Set header key and value.
        $head[$key] = $value;
    }

    # Proper status and url.
    $head['url']    = $base_url;
    $head['status'] = $head[0];

    # Remove numeric status representation.
    unset($head[0]);

    # Extract response code.
    $head['code'] = (int) explode(' ', $head['status'])[1];

    # Return headers.
    return (object) [
        'header' => (object) $head,
        'body' => $contents
    ];
} 


What helped alot is that CodeIgniter actually got my request by:

PHP Code:

$this->request->getBody(); 


Hope this helps someone!

Thanks for sharing your solution! Just to add: FeatureTestCase does not necessarily populate the superglobals (like $_GET) nor recreate the full URI. I think you *should* still be able to access the parameters from the Request though - try this instead:

PHP Code:

public function amethod()
    {
        if (! $token = $this->request->getVar('token'))
        {
            print_r($_GET);
            var_dump($this->request);

            die(); // this triggers, thus i get no 'token' from my test.
        }
    }