falsealarm

A utility for simulating Firebase requests.

Features

• read, write, push and update testing
• works as a nodejs library
• or through a clean CLI interface

Two Important Notes

• Passing the simulate flag makes the tests much slower and may even break the operation with a strange error. It is marked "internal only," wherever it was documented, therefore the simulation is disabled by default, and write operations actually write to the database. Pass -s or --simulate to try simulating anyway.
• Neither this project nor its creator are affiliated with Firebase.

Install

For CLI,

npm install -g falsealarm

For library use,

npm install falsealarm

Examples

Examples are included in the examples folder.

Passing,

falsealarm -c examples/env.js examples/pass.js

Failing,

falsealarm -c examples/env.js examples/fail.js

Failing output,

'https://false-alarm-drill.firebaseio.com/.json?auth=...
Attempt to write Sparse data to /  /: /detectives: /detectives/6biFtd1XO1SJFbvCYcHMjtDLvao2: .write: "auth.uid==$did && $did==newData.child('detectiveId').val()"
=> false
: : No .write rule allowed the operation.: /: /singlestickLevels: /singlestickLevels/6biFtd1XO1SJFbvCYcHMjtDLvao2: .write: "auth.uid==$did"
=> true
: Write was denied.:
{ headers:
   { server: 'nginx',
     date: 'Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:28:50 GMT',
     'content-type': 'application/json; charset=utf-8',
     'content-length': '36',
     'access-control-allow-origin': '*',
     'cache-control': 'no-cache',
     connection: 'close' },
  status: 401,
  error:
   { auth:
      { provider: 'anonymous',
        uid: '6biFtd1XO1SJFbvCYcHMjtDLvao2',
        token: [Object] },
     rawText: 'Attempt to write Sparse data to /  /: /detectives: /detectives/6biFtd1XO1SJFbvCYcHMjtDLvao2: .write: "auth.uid==$did && $did==newData.child(\'detectiveId\').val()" => false: : No .write rule allowed the operation.: /: /singlestickLevels: /singlestickLevels/6biFtd1XO1SJFbvCYcHMjtDLvao2: .write: "auth.uid==$did" => true: Write was denied.:' },
  success: false,
  path: '/.json',
  operation: 'update',
  method: 'PATCH' }

Required Parameters

The required parameters for a test, however passed (conflig, cli or test files), are:

• app: app name, not the full URL
• secret: your db secret
• uid: auth uid
• operation: one of read write push update
• path: path to data node, root by default
• data: data payload, null by default

CLI

$ falsealarm -h

  Usage: falsealarm [options] <files...>

  Firebase request runner and debugger.

  Options:

    -h, --help                 output usage information
    -V, --version              output the version number
    -s, --simulate             Simulate write operations, do not perform actual writes. Note: this makes requrest slow.
    -b, --bail                 Exit with an error code on the first failed test.
    -c, --config [file]        Config/params file (js or json) path
    -u, --uid <string>         Firebase uid to simulate
    -o, --operation <op>       Check operation: read, write, update
    -a, --app <db name>        Firebase db name
    -p, --path <path/to/node>  Firebase path to data
    -d, --data [data]          Data to try, defaults to null

  <files...> are json or js files exporting parameters named below.
  Example: falsealarm -c path/to/config.json path/to/test/file.js
  See an example setup in the examples folder

The recommended approach is to have a js or json file with your app name and secret as a config, and as many of the test files as there are tests you wish to run. However it doesn't matter where you provide the necessary parameters, as long as you do. The three sources of parameters are:

• command line arguments
• config file
• test file

If you choose to follow the recommendation, you would run it like so,

falsealarm --config path/to/config.js file/with/tests.js

Module API

// initialize
var sim = require('falsealarm')(configParamsObject)
// perform any number of calls with the initialized simulator
sim(testParamsObject, function(error, results) {
  if (results.success) ...
  else ...
})

Simulation's callback function passes two arguments: error and results. The first arguments will inform you if you have not passed all required paramters. error will be null if the simulation took place, even if the read/write did not succed.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2016 Bijou Trouvaille

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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