matusstafura/pest-plugin-fileloader

A PHP Pest plugin to load file

v0.4.0 2026-08-04 09:17 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.1
• ext-simplexml: *
• pestphp/pest: ^2.0 || ^3.0 || ^4.0

Requires (Dev)

• laravel/pint: ^1.0
• pestphp/pest-dev-tools: ^2.0.0 || ^3.0 || ^4.0
• phpstan/phpstan: ^1.10 || ^2.0

MIT

• Matus Stafura

• php
• testing
• plugin
• pest
• matusstafura

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-08-04 09:17 UTC

README

This Pest plugin simplifies loading file for testing.

If you want to test a response, save it as json, load a file and test:

use function MatusStafura\PestPluginFileLoader\fileLoader;

test('response', function () {
    $json = fileLoader()->json('tests/response_dump.json');
    expect($json)->toBeArray()
        ->and($json['id'])->toBe(1)
        ->and($json['title'])->toBe('Shirt Black');
});

Available methods:

json(string $filepath): array
// $json = fileLoader()->json('response.json');

plaintext(string $filepath): string
// fileLoader()->plaintext('response.txt');

xmlToArray(string $filepath): array
// fileLoader()->json('response.xml');

Testing

composer test

Changelog

Please see CHANGELOG for more information on what has changed recently.

Credits

• Matus Stafura

License

The MIT License (MIT). Please see License File for more information.