cy-spok

Playing with spok inside Cypress test

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Learn

• 📺 Watch Introduction To cy-spok Plugin For Writing Powerful Assertions For Objects
• 📺 Watch Confirm Text In Multiple Page Elements Using cy-spok
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• 🎓 Covered in my course Cypress Plugins
  • Lesson e1: Validate network requests using cy-spok
  • Lesson e2: Use your own predicates to validate object properties
  • Lesson e3: Validate URL search parameters
  • Lesson e4: Check and control the Redux store using cy-spok plugin
• 🎓 Covered in my course Cypress Network Testing Exercises
  • Bonus 28: Use cy-spok plugin to write complex assertions
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Install

$ npm i -D cy-spok

Use

See spok docs

// in your Cypress spec file
import spok from 'cy-spok'

const object = {
  one: 1,
  two: 2,
  three: 3,
  four: 4,
  helloWorld: 'hello world',
  anyNum: 999,
  anotherNum: 888,
  anArray: [1, 2],
  anotherArray: [1, 2, 3],
  anObject: {},
  id: 'abc123',
  list: ['one', 'two', 'three'],
}

// using Spok
// https://github.com/thlorenz/spok#readme
cy.wrap(object, { timeout: 2000 }).should(
  spok({
    $topic: 'spok-example', // optional
    one: spok.ge(1),
    two: 2,
    three: spok.range(2, 6),
    four: spok.lt(5),
    helloWorld: spok.startsWith('hello'),
    anyNum: spok.type('number'),
    anotherNum: spok.number,
    anArray: spok.array,
    anObject: spok.ne(undefined),
    // test a string using regular expression
    id: spok.test(/^abc\d{3}$/),
    // array with 3 elements
    list: spok.arrayElements(3),
  }),
)

See cypress/integration/spec.js here and in the cy-spok-example repo.

vs deep.equal

Spok prints a lot more information when using it compared to deep.equal. Note that Spok is a subset, not strict value equality.

See deep-equal-spec.js

Treat arrays as an object

// verify each item in an array as an object
cy.wrap(['one', 42, 'three']).should(
  spok({
    0: spok.string,
    1: spok.number,
    2: spok.string,
  }),
)

Use Lodash predicates

Lodash has many predicate functions is..., see Lodash docs

cy.wrap({
  name: 'Joe',
  age: 20,
}).should(
  spok({
    name: Cypress._.isString,
    age: Cypress._.isNumber,
  }),
)

Own predicate

Any synchronous function that returns a boolean could be a predicate

// it is a list of strings
const areGreetings = (list) =>
  Array.isArray(list) && list.every(Cypress._.isString)

cy.wrap({
  greetings: ['hello', 'hi'],
}).should(
  spok({
    greetings: areGreetings,
  }),
)

First failure only

If there are multiple failing predicates, only the first one is shown. All passing predicates are shown

cy.wrap({
  name: 'Joe',
  age: 42,
  job: 'chimney sweeper',
  location: 'Boston',
  present: true,
}).should(
  spok({
    name: 'Mary', // fails
    age: 42, // passes
    job: 'secret agent', // fails
    location: 'Boston', // passes
    present: spok.type('boolean'), // passes
  }),
)

Small print

Author: Gleb Bahmutov <[email protected]> © 2021

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License: MIT - do anything with the code, but don't blame me if it does not work.

Support: if you find any problems with this module, email / tweet / open issue on Github

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Copyright (c) 2021 Gleb Bahmutov <[email protected]>

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