gavel2html

A utility library to render an HTML diff from the Gavel.js validation results.

Installation

npm install gavel2html

Usage

const gavel = require('gavel');
const Gavel2Html = require('gavel2html');

// Validate expected/actual HTTP transaction with Gavel.
const gavelResult = gavel(expected, actual);

const renderer = new Gavel2Html({
  // Pass the name of the field you wish to render
  fieldName: 'body',
  // ...and the validation result for that field
  fieldResult: gavelResult.fields.body,
});

const html = renderer.getHtml({
  wrapWith: '##data',
  startTag: '<span>',
  endTag: '</span>',
  missingStartTag: '<span class="missing">',
  addedStartTag: '<span class="added">',
  changedStartTag: '<span class="changed">',
  comments: true,
  commentStartTag: '<span class="comments">',
  commentEndTag: '</span>',
  identString: '  '
});

console.log(html);

<span>{&quot;name&quot;: &quot;hell</span><span class="missing">o</span><span>&quot;}</span>

API

Gavel2Html(options)

Creates a renderer instance with the given options.

Options

{
  // Gavel validation results field name.
  // Affects the converter being used internally.
  fieldName: 'statusCode' | 'headers' | 'body'

  // Gavel validation results for the given `fieldName`.
  // Refer to the Gavel's documentation for more details.
  fieldResults: GavelFieldValidationResults

  // Use JSON pointers from the Gavel validation results
  // passed in the `fieldResults` option.
  usePointers?: boolean
}

getHtml(options): string

Returns an HTML string representing the markup of the validation results data diff.

Options

{
  // String to wrap the outpout data with.
  // The "##data" acts as a placeholder that gets
  // substituted with the output results.
  // Example: <div>##data</div>.
  wrapWith?: string = '##data'
  startTag?: string = '<li>'
  endTag?: string = '</li>'
  jsonKeyStartTag?: string = ''
  jsonKeyEndTag?: string = ''

  // String to use at the beginning of
  // a missing sequence of characters.
  missingStartTag?: string

  // String to use at the beginning of
  // an added sequence of characters.
  addedStartTag?: string

  // String to use as a start when marking
  // a changed sequence of characters.
  changedStartTag?: string

  // Include comments in the output.
  comments?: boolean
  commentStartTag?: string
  commentEndTag?: string

  // String to use as a one level of indentation.
  identString?: string = '  '
}