Behat, mink and goutte: current URI must be an absolute URL

Question

I'm having some problems with Behat and Mink. The driver used is Goutte. I'm trying to test my Symfony 2.1 application.

My behat.yml:

default:
extensions:
    Behat\Symfony2Extension\Extension:
        mink_driver: true
    Behat\MinkExtension\Extension:
        base_url: 'http://localhost/project/web/app_dev.php'
        goutte: ~

My test.feature:

Feature: Test
   In order to log-in
   As a user
   I need to be able to use the login-form

   Scenario: Logging in
       Given I am on "/login"
       When I fill in "username" with "admin"
       And I fill in "password" with "password"
       And I press "_submit"
       Then show last response
       Then I should see "Hello"

When I try to execute the tests (on Windows 7):

bin\behat @MyTestBundle

The tests stop at

And I press "_submit"

With this error:

Current URI must be an absolute URL ("/app_dev.php").

I've already tried almost all possible base_url paths and I didn't managed to get it work.

Do You have any idea's how to fix this problem?

The form I try to submit:

<form action="/app_dev.php/login_check" class="form-horizontal" method="post">
    <fieldset>
        <div class="control-group">
            <label class="control-label" for="username">Nazwa użytkownika:</label>

            <div class="controls"><input type="text" id="username" name="_username" value=""/></div>
        </div>

        <div class="control-group">
            <label for="password" class="control-label">Hasło:</label>

            <div class="controls"><input type="password" id="password" name="_password"/></div>
        </div>

        <div class="control-group">
            <div class="controls">
                <label for="remember_me" class="checkbox">
                    <input type="checkbox" id="remember_me" name="_remember_me" value="on"/>Nie wylogowuj mnie
                </label>
            </div>

        </div>
        <div class="form-actions">
            <input type="submit" class="btn-primary" id="_submit" name="_submit"
                   value="Zaloguj"/>
            <a href="/app_dev.php/register/" class="btn btn-success">Rejestracja</a>
        </div>
    </fieldset>
</form>

Answer 1

I've found a solution to my problem today.

Indeed the problem Was in the path function. The path function should be replaced with the twig url function.

What's interesting: changing the function to url in the form action attribute won't help. In my base layout i had:

<base href="{{ path('_default')}}"/>

This one line of code caused the problem, it should be:

<base href="{{ url('_default')}}"/>

After this change the test works as expected.

Answer 2

In your twig template, when you create the login_check url, you have to create an absolute url (the third argument of path, being true to create an absolute url) :

{{ path('route', {}, true) }}