How in Laravel 5.7 check if session is set?

In my Laravel 5.7 app I show next code

        $request                = request();
        // if (empty($request)) return false; .// That does not work
        $loggedUserAccessGroups = $request->session()->get('loggedUserAccessGroups');
        $logged_user_ip         = $request->session()->get('logged_user_ip');

to check if user has access level in session, and it works ok but I make automatic tests and got error:

 local.ERROR: Session store not set on request. 

I tried to make checks if session is set and fails to return false.

Which is the right way ?

Thanks!

via Chebli Mohamed