Missing defaults in Category repository prevents saving of category without cover

[iammikek]

Tests\Unit\Categories\CategoryUnitTest::it_can_create_root_category
ErrorException: compact(): Undefined variable: cover
/Users/mike/Documents/Sites/rd/laracom/project/app/Shop/Categories/Repositories/CategoryRepository.php:83
/Users/mike/Documents/Sites/rd/laracom/project/tests/Unit/Categories/CategoryUnitTest.php:232

Tests\Unit\Categories\CategoryUnitTest::it_can_update_child_category_to_root_category
ErrorException: compact(): Undefined variable: cover
/Users/mike/Documents/Sites/rd/laracom/project/app/Shop/Categories/Repositories/CategoryRepository.php:117
/Users/mike/Documents/Sites/rd/laracom/project/tests/Unit/Categories/CategoryUnitTest.php:247

Tests\Unit\Categories\CategoryUnitTest::it_can_update_root_category_to_child
ErrorException: compact(): Undefined variable: cover
/Users/mike/Documents/Sites/rd/laracom/project/app/Shop/Categories/Repositories/CategoryRepository.php:117
/Users/mike/Documents/Sites/rd/laracom/project/tests/Unit/Categories/CategoryUnitTest.php:265

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There were 2 failures:

Tests\Feature\Admin\Categories\CategoryFeatureTest::it_can_update_the_category
Expected status code 302 but received 500.
Failed asserting that false is true.
/Users/mike/Documents/Sites/rd/laracom/project/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Testing/TestResponse.php:133
/Users/mike/Documents/Sites/rd/laracom/project/tests/Feature/Admin/Categories/CategoryFeatureTest.php:61

Tests\Unit\Categories\CategoryUnitTest::it_errors_creating_the_category_when_required_fields_are_not_passed
Failed asserting that exception of type "ErrorException" matches expected exception "App\Shop\Categories\Exceptions\CategoryInvalidArgumentException". Message was: "compact(): Undefined variable: slug" at
/Users/mike/Documents/Sites/rd/laracom/project/app/Shop/Categories/Repositories/CategoryRepository.php:83
/Users/mike/Documents/Sites/rd/laracom/project/tests/Unit/Categories/CategoryUnitTest.php:117
This is consistent with behaviour I'm getting within admin and relates to the cover image. With my local install, even though I have linked storage, I'm not seeing any product images. I ran the command to link storage outside of my homestead instance. ssh'ing in , I get ' symlink(): No such file or directory ' if I run it.

In admin, within categories, I was unable to 'resave' a category to change its status without reattaching an image and this throws cover error.