How does workbench work?

[nhedger]

Hey,

I'm trying to figure out how the workbench directory works and whether it's related to the skeleton mentioned in the docs. Because of the structure of this folder, I'm assuming it's some barebones Laravel application that I can run to interact with the package I'm building.

I have the ServiceProvider of my package defined in src/ServiceProvider.php, but it does seem to get registered in the workbench application. I tried registering the provider by adding it to the providers key in testbench.yaml, but it does not seem to work.

By the way, I have not yet set up any tests; I just wanted to see if I could load my service provider into the workbench.

Not sure if I'm going about this correctly, and I could use some help.

Thanks

[feryardiant]

Hi,

I'm also wondering kinda similar question regarding workbench directory. But my understanding so far is that workbench directory and its testbench.yaml would works only under testbench serve command or perhaps any other testbench commands except the testbench package:test

For instance, I have testbench.yaml like below

providers:
  - MyPackage\MyPackageServiceProvider

I can only see it's being loaded when I run ./vendor/bin/testbench serve, but when I want to see it loadied when I run ./vendor/bin/testbench package:test I'm still have to register it to getPackageProviders() method in my TestCase

/**
 * @param  \Illuminate\Foundation\Application  $app
 */
protected function getPackageProviders($app): array
{
    return [
        MyPackage\MyPackageServiceProvider::class,
    ];
}

Thanks

[crynobone]

See https://packages.tools/testbench.html#autoloading-using-testbench-yaml