How do I get HTTP Request body content in Laravel

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I am making an API with Laravel 5 and I m testing it with PHPUnit  I need to test legacy functionality for compatibility  which is an XML POST  As of right now  my first test looks like   public function testPostMessages          response    this- gt call  POST    xml          this- gt assertEquals 200   response- gt getStatusCode         This is passing just fine  Next on my list is actually sending the XML data with the POST  So for my second test  I have   public function testPostMessagesContent          response    this- gt call  POST    xml          this- gt assertTrue is valid xml  response- gt getContent          This test fails  However  I am not sending my XML data  How do I send my XML  Now  after that I need to add in the functionality to get the content from the request  I know there is a Request object that I can interact with but I don t exactly know which method to call on it  How do I get my XML from inside my controller     Update  1  I was able to get some results in the meantime  My current test looks like this   public function testPostMessagesContent          response    this- gt call  POST    xml   array  key    gt   value    array    array    array  content    gt   content          this- gt assertContains       response- gt getContent         I only have the tilde there because I know it won t match so that I can see the whole response  In XmlController php I have   class XmlController extends Controller   public function index Request  request        return  request            My output from PHPUnit is as follows   1  XmlTest  testPostMessagesContent Failed asserting that  POST xml HTTP 1 1 Accept           text html application xhtml xml application xml q 0 9     q 0 8 Accept-Charset   ISO-8859-1 utf-8 q 0 7   q 0 7 Accept-Language  en-us en q 0 5 Content-Type     application x-www-form-urlencoded Host             localhost User-Agent       Symfony 2 X   contains        Where are my parameters and my content  I feel like I am simply just using call   incorrectly     Update  2  I updated my controller to use Request all   like so   class XmlController extends Controller       public function index                 content   Request  all            return  content            This returned my key-value pair  but not the content   1  XmlTest  testPostMessagesContent Failed asserting that    key   value    contains        Key-value pairs are good  it s progress  However  what I really need is the content since I ll be receiving that data in the content portion of the request  If I use Request  getContent   I get back a blank string  Here s my call in the test    response    this- gt call  POST    xml   array  key    gt   value    array    array    array  content    gt   content       Here s my test results   1  XmlTest  testPostMessagesContent Failed asserting that    contains          Update  3  I am not able to get the content body of an HTTP Request at all  Since XML wasn t working  I moved forward with the REST part of my API  which uses JSON  Here s one of my tests   public function testPostMessagesContent          response    this- gt call  POST    messages     content    gt   content           this- gt assertEquals  saved     response- gt getContent         This test passes  If I use curl  I get a successful call as well   curl -X POST -d  content my new content   http   localhost 8000 messages    This returns  saved   That s awesome  but if I try to use curl in a standalone PHP script  to simulate a client   this is what is returned   Array    url    gt  http   localhost 8000 messages  content type    gt  text html  charset UTF-8  http code    gt  302  header size    gt  603  request size    gt  118  filetime    gt  -1  ssl verify result    gt  0  redirect count    gt  0  total time    gt  0 063977  namelookup time    gt  0 000738  connect time    gt  0 000866  pretransfer time    gt  0 000943  size upload    gt  12  size download    gt  328  speed download    gt  5126  speed upload    gt  187  download content length    gt  -1  upload content length    gt  12  starttransfer time    gt  0 057606  redirect time    gt  0  certinfo    gt  Array      primary ip    gt    1  primary port    gt  8000  local ip    gt    1  local port    gt  63248  redirect url    gt  http   localhost 8000  request header    gt  POST  messages HTTP 1 1 Host  localhost 8000 Accept      Content-type  text xml Content-length  12   Redirecting to http   localhost 8000     This is my curl command adding the POST fields   curl setopt  ch  CURLOPT POSTFIELDS   content test      It seems to me that POSTFIELDS is getting added to the body of the request  In this case  I still have the same problem  I am not able to get body content of my HTTP headers  After commenting out my validation  I get   Array    url    gt  http   localhost 8000 messages  content type    gt  text html  charset UTF-8  http code    gt  200  header size    gt  565  request size    gt  118  filetime    gt  -1  ssl verify result    gt  0  redirect count    gt  0  total time    gt  0 070225  namelookup time    gt  0 000867  connect time    gt  0 00099  pretransfer time    gt  0 001141  size upload    gt  12  size download    gt  6  speed download    gt  85  speed upload    gt  170  download content length    gt  -1  upload content length    gt  12  starttransfer time    gt  0 065204  redirect time    gt  0  certinfo    gt  Array      primary ip    gt    1  primary port    gt  8000  local ip    gt    1  local port    gt  63257  redirect url    gt   request header    gt  POST  messages HTTP 1 1 Host  localhost 8000 Accept      Content-type  text xml Content-length  12   saved    So I have my  saved   message  Great  But  in my database now I have a blank row  Not great  It is still not seeing the body content  just the headers     Answer Criteria  I m looking for the answers to these questions    Why can t I get the body content of my request  How do I get the body content of my request

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For those who are still getting blank response with  request- gt getContent    you can use    request- gt all    e g   public function foo Request  request       bodyContent    request- gt all

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I don t think you want the data from your Request  I think you want the data from your Response   The two are different   Also you should build your response correctly in your controller   Looking at the class in edit  2  I would make it look like this   class XmlController extends Controller       public function index                  content   Request  all            return Response  json  content             Once you ve gotten that far you should check the content of your response in your test case  use print r if necessary   you should see the data inside   More information on Laravel responses here   http   laravel com docs 5 0 responses

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You can pass data as the third argument to call    Or  depending on your API  it s possible you may want to use the sixth parameter   From the docs    this- gt call  method   uri   parameters   files   server   content

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Inside controller inject Request object  So if you want to access request body inside controller method  foo  do the following   public function foo Request  request        bodyContent    request- gt getContent

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