fluid-couchdb-test-harness
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A library to assist in testing CouchDB integration within the Fluid ecosystem.
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fluid-couchdb-test-harness
This package is intended to test integration with CouchDB. Although it can in theory be used on its own, the harness provided by this package is designed to interact with and tested exclusively with the Fluid IoC Test Framework and the test fixtures provided by this package.
Requirements
The harness provided by this package can be run in one of three modes:
- Docker
- Vagrant
- "External"
Docker
By default, the harness attempts to launch a Docker container with an instance of CouchDB. At time of writing, this is conservatively pinned to CouchDB 2.3.1 (see below for details about CouchDB 3.0).
Vagrant
If you are in an environment (such as Windows 7) where running Docker is not possible, you can set the
FLUID_TEST_COUCH_USE_VAGRANT
environment variable to use Vagrant instead. See below
for details. This will use the same version of CouchDB as the Docker route.
"External"
If you would like to use your own standalone instance of CouchDB, configure it to listen to the same port used by the
tests in this package (25984) and set the FLUID_TEST_COUCH_USE_EXTERNAL
environment variable. This mode is used by
our CI setup, and the tests are run against the latest version of the CouchDB docker container (3.x at time of writing).
Please note, when using an "external" instance, you must ensure that an administrative user named admin
exists, whose
password is set to admin
. In CouchDB 2.x, the default was to use the "admin party", where no username/password is
required to access administrative functions. In CouchDB 3.0 and higher, "admin party" has been removed and you must
have an administrative username and password set. Thankfully, the process of configuring these at least for docker
containers is the same for both CouchDB 2.x and 3.x, i.e. you set two environment variables when creating the container.
You can see examples of these environment variables in the GitHub Actions workflow found in this package's .github
folder.
Running the Tests
To run the tests for this package on a local machine, you must have either Docker, Vagrant, or a local instance of CouchDB installed (see above).
Running the Tests Locally
To run tests using docker, use the command npm test
. The required Docker containers will be automatically started if
they are not already running. To run the tests using Docker or Vagrant, set the relevant environment variable
(see above).