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express-mocks-http

v0.0.11

Published

Mock 'http' objects for testing Express routing functions

Downloads

44

Readme

node-mocks-http

Mock 'http' objects for testing Express routing functions, but could be used for testing any Node.js web server applications that have code that requires mockups of the request and response objects.

Example

Suppose we have the following magical Express incantation:

app.get('/user/:id', mod.aroute);

And we have ourselves a function to answer that call:

var aroute = function( request, response ) { ... };

You can easily test that function with some code like this:

exports['aroute - Simple testing'] = function(test) {
    var request  = httpMocks.createRequest({
        method: 'GET',
        url: '/user/42',
        params: { id: 42 }
    });
    var response = httpMocks.createResponse();

    aroute(request, response);

    var data = JSON.parse( response._getData() );
    test.equal("Bob Dog", data.name);
    test.equal(42, data.age);
    test.equal("[email protected]", data.email);

    test.equal(200, response.statusCode );
    test.ok( response._isEndCalled());
    test.ok( response._isJSON());
    test.ok( response._isUTF8());
    test.done();
};

Installation

This project is available as a NPM package.

npm install node-mocks-http

After this, just include the following in your test files:

var httpMocks = require('../lib/http-mock');

Design Decisions

We wanted some simple mocks without any larger framework.

We also wanted the mocks to simply act like the original, but allow setting values before calling and inspecting afterwards.

We are looking for more volunteers to value to this project, including the creation of more objects from the HTTP module.

Release Notes

Most releases fixes bugs with our mocks or add features similar to the actual Request and Response objects offered by Node.js and extended by Express.

v 0.0.6

  • Add support for request files

v 0.0.5

  • Fixed a bug where response.send() can take two parameters, the status code and the data to send.

v 0.0.4

  • Added a request.session that can be set during construction (or via calling the _setSessionVariable() method, and read as an object.

v 0.0.3

  • Added a request.query that can be set during construction and read as an object.

v 0.0.2

  • Code refactoring of the Response mock.

v 0.0.1

  • Initial code banged out one late night...