Getting request input array different in actual vs testing

[lloricode]

• Laravel Version: 8.62
• PHP Version: 7.4.24
• Database Driver & Version: mysql - 8.0.11 | sqlite 3.31.1

Description:

im using this feature #38832
works great, but when using testing environment, is not working

Steps To Reproduce:

# controller level
$this->validation($request, [
  'meta[name]' => 'nullable|string',
  'meta[keywords]' => 'nullable|string',
  'meta[description]' => 'nullable|string',
]);

ray($request->collect('meta'));

Getting data request

# using browser

// https://github.com/spatie/laravel-html
                    html()
                        ->text('meta[name]', $meta ? $meta->name : old('meta.name'))

                    html()
                        ->text('meta[keywords]', $meta ? $meta->keywords : old('meta.keywords'))
                
                    html()
                        ->textarea('meta[description]', $meta ? $meta->description : old('meta.description'))
                 
# ray results:
Illuminate\Support\Collection {#1950 ▼
  #items: array:3 [▼
    "name" => "aa"
    "keywords" => "bb"
    "description" => "ccc"
  ]
}

# testing with pestphp
    patch(route('admin.article.update', $article), [
        'category_ids' => [$article->categories->first()->getKey()],
        'title' => 'test xxx title',
        'content' => 'test xxxxx article',

        'meta[name]' => 'test meta title',
        'meta[keywords]' => 'test meta keywords',
        'meta[description]' => 'test meta description',
    ])

# ray results:
Illuminate\Support\Collection {#4077 ▼
  #items: []
}

Thank you

[lloricode]

It seems not collection problem, try to use input() still not same result between actual and tesing

            'meta' => [
                'name'=>$request->input('meta[name]'),
                'keywords'=>$request->input('meta[keywords]'),
                'description'=>$request->input('meta[description]'),
            ],

[lloricode]

Fixes:

# data
$meta = $request->meta


# testing

    patch(route('admin.article.update', $article), [
        'category_ids' => [$article->categories->first()->getKey()],
        'title' => 'test xxx title',
        'content' => 'test xxxxx article',

        'meta' => [
            'name' => 'test meta title',
            'keywords' => 'test meta keywords',
            'description' => 'test meta description',
        ],
    ])