Update to drupal 8.0.0-rc1. For more information, see https://www.drupal.org/node/2582663

core/modules/rest/src/Tests/NodeTest.php

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 namespace Drupal\rest\Tests;
 
 use Drupal\Core\Url;
-use Drupal\rest\Tests\RESTTestBase;
+use Drupal\node\Entity\Node;
 
 /**
  * Tests special cases for node entities.
@@ -42,6 +42,40 @@ class NodeTest extends RESTTestBase {
     $this->drupalLogin($account);
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Serializes and attempts to create a node via a REST "post" http request.
+   *
+   * @param array $data
+   */
+  protected function postNode($data) {
+    // Enable node creation via POST.
+    $this->enableNodeConfiguration('POST', 'create');
+    $this->enableService('entity:node', 'POST', 'json');
+
+    // Create a JSON version of a simple node with the title.
+    $serialized = $this->container->get('serializer')->serialize($data, 'json');
+
+    // Post to the REST service to create the node.
+    $this->httpRequest('/entity/node', 'POST', $serialized, 'application/json');
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Tests the title on a newly created node.
+   *
+   * @param array $data
+   * @return \Drupal\node\Entity\Node
+   */
+  protected function assertNodeTitleMatch($data) {
+    /** @var \Drupal\node\Entity\Node $node */
+    // Load the newly created node.
+    $node = Node::load(1);
+
+    // Test that the title is the same as what we posted.
+    $this->assertEqual($node->title->value, $data['title'][0]['value']);
+
+    return $node;
+  }
+
   /**
    * Performs various tests on nodes and their REST API.
    */
@@ -90,4 +124,79 @@ class NodeTest extends RESTTestBase {
     // Make sure that the UUID of the node has not changed.
     $this->assertEqual($node->get('uuid')->getValue(), $updated_node->get('uuid')->getValue(), 'UUID was not changed.');
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Test creating a node using json serialization.
+   */
+  public function testCreate() {
+    // Data to be used for serialization.
+    $data = [
+      'type' => [['target_id' => 'resttest']],
+      'title' => [['value' => $this->randomString() ]],
+    ];
+
+    $this->postNode($data);
+
+    // Make sure the response is "CREATED".
+    $this->assertResponse(201);
+
+    // Make sure the node was created and the title matches.
+    $node = $this->assertNodeTitleMatch($data);
+
+    // Make sure the request returned a redirect header to view the node.
+    $this->assertHeader('Location', $node->url('canonical', ['absolute' => TRUE]));
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Test bundle normalization when posting bundle as a simple string.
+   */
+  public function testBundleNormalization() {
+    // Data to be used for serialization.
+    $data = [
+      'type' => 'resttest',
+      'title' => [['value' => $this->randomString() ]],
+    ];
+
+    $this->postNode($data);
+
+    // Make sure the response is "CREATED".
+    $this->assertResponse(201);
+
+    // Make sure the node was created and the title matches.
+    $this->assertNodeTitleMatch($data);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Test bundle normalization when posting using a simple string.
+   */
+  public function testInvalidBundle() {
+    // Data to be used for serialization.
+    $data = [
+      'type' => 'bad_bundle_name',
+      'title' => [['value' => $this->randomString() ]],
+    ];
+
+    $this->postNode($data);
+
+    // Make sure the response is "Bad Request".
+    $this->assertResponse(400);
+    $this->assertResponseBody('{"error":"\"bad_bundle_name\" is not a valid bundle type for denormalization."}');
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Test when the bundle is missing.
+   */
+  public function testMissingBundle() {
+    // Data to be used for serialization.
+    $data = [
+      'title' => [['value' => $this->randomString() ]],
+    ];
+
+    // testing
+    $this->postNode($data);
+
+    // Make sure the response is "Bad Request".
+    $this->assertResponse(400);
+    $this->assertResponseBody('{"error":"A string must be provided as a bundle value."}');
+  }
 }

core/modules/rest/src/Tests/RESTTestBase.php

@@ -7,11 +7,9 @@
 
 namespace Drupal\rest\Tests;
 
-use Drupal\Core\Session\AccountInterface;
-use Drupal\Core\Url;
+use Drupal\Component\Utility\SafeMarkup;
 use Drupal\node\NodeInterface;
 use Drupal\simpletest\WebTestBase;
-use Drupal\user\UserInterface;
 
 /**
  * Test helper class that provides a REST client method to send HTTP requests.
@@ -46,6 +44,14 @@ abstract class RESTTestBase extends WebTestBase {
    */
   protected $defaultAuth;
 
+
+  /**
+   * The raw response body from http request operations.
+   *
+   * @var array
+   */
+  protected $responseBody;
+
   /**
    * Modules to install.
    *
@@ -153,7 +159,7 @@ abstract class RESTTestBase extends WebTestBase {
         break;
     }
 
-    $response = $this->curlExec($curl_options);
+    $this->responseBody = $this->curlExec($curl_options);
 
     // Ensure that any changes to variables in the other thread are picked up.
     $this->refreshVariables();
@@ -163,9 +169,9 @@ abstract class RESTTestBase extends WebTestBase {
     $this->verbose($method . ' request to: ' . $url .
       '<hr />Code: ' . curl_getinfo($this->curlHandle, CURLINFO_HTTP_CODE) .
       '<hr />Response headers: ' . nl2br(print_r($headers, TRUE)) .
-      '<hr />Response body: ' . $response);
+      '<hr />Response body: ' . $this->responseBody);
 
-    return $response;
+    return $this->responseBody;
   }
 
   /**
@@ -383,9 +389,33 @@ abstract class RESTTestBase extends WebTestBase {
     $node->set('promote', NULL);
     $node->set('sticky', NULL);
     $node->set('revision_timestamp', NULL);
+    $node->set('revision_log', NULL);
     $node->set('uid', NULL);
 
     return $node;
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Check to see if the HTTP request response body is identical to the expected
+   * value.
+   *
+   * @param $expected
+   *   The first value to check.
+   * @param $message
+   *   (optional) A message to display with the assertion. Do not translate
+   *   messages: use \Drupal\Component\Utility\SafeMarkup::format() to embed
+   *   variables in the message text, not t(). If left blank, a default message
+   *   will be displayed.
+   * @param $group
+   *   (optional) The group this message is in, which is displayed in a column
+   *   in test output. Use 'Debug' to indicate this is debugging output. Do not
+   *   translate this string. Defaults to 'Other'; most tests do not override
+   *   this default.
+   *
+   * @return bool
+   *   TRUE if the assertion succeeded, FALSE otherwise.
+   */
+  protected function assertResponseBody($expected, $message = '', $group = 'REST Response') {
+    return $this->assertIdentical($expected, $this->responseBody, $message ? $message : strtr('Response body @expected (expected) is equal to @response (actual).', array('@expected' => var_export($expected, TRUE), '@response' => var_export($this->responseBody, TRUE))), $group);
+  }
 }

core/modules/rest/src/Tests/Views/StyleSerializerTest.php

@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ class StyleSerializerTest extends PluginTestBase {
       $expected[] = $expected_row;
     }
 
-    $this->assertIdentical($this->drupalGetJSON('test/serialize/field'), $expected);
+    $this->assertIdentical($this->drupalGetJSON('test/serialize/field'), $this->castSafeStrings($expected));
 
     // Test a random aliases for fields, they should be replaced.
     $alias_map = array(
@@ -430,7 +430,7 @@ class StyleSerializerTest extends PluginTestBase {
       $expected[] = $expected_row;
     }
 
-    $this->assertIdentical($this->drupalGetJSON('test/serialize/field'), $expected);
+    $this->assertIdentical($this->drupalGetJSON('test/serialize/field'), $this->castSafeStrings($expected));
   }
 
   /**