Mocha Nock

A library that makes saving fixtures with nock and mocha easy. Just use describeFixture instead of describe and it will record outbound requests using nock into test/fixtures and read from them the next time you run the tests.

Install

npm install --save-dev mocha-nock

Usage

Use describeFixture instead of describe and it will use nock to record all requests.

The first time this test executes, it will save the HTTP request & response into your test/fixtures directory. Then on subsequent tests, it will return the saved data and not use the network.

const describeFixture = require('mocha-nock');
const request         = require('request-promise-native');

describeFixture('normal test', () => {
  it('works', async () => {
    const response = await request('http://localhost:4000/users');
  });

  describe('some other test', () => {
    // You can use mocha how you normally would to group tests
  });
});

It also supports .skip and .only, like mocha does.

describeFixture.skip('skipped test', () => {
  // Anything in here will be skipped
});

describeFixture.only('only test', () => {
  // This will be the only test run
});

Usage with test specific options

// This test will not record the request to localhost:4000.
// For anything it does record, it will also record the reqheaders.
const opts = {
  excludeScope: 'localhost:4000',
  recorder: {
    enable_reqheaders_recording: true
  }
};

describeFixture('normal test', opts, () => {
  it('works', async () => {
    const resp1 = await request('http://localhost:4000/users');
    const resp2 = await request('https://google.com/');
  });
});

Configuration

Defaults:

{
  // Don't record any requests to this scope
  // It can be an array or string
  excludeScope: ['localhost', '127.0.0.1', '0.0.0.0'],

  // Re-record and overwrite your current fixtures
  overwrite: false,

  // Record fixtures when test fails
  recordOnFailure: false,

  // These options are passed to the nock recorder that runs behind the scenes
  // to capture requests
  recorder: {
    output_objects:  true,
    dont_print:      true
  }
}

To overide these you can call describeFixture.setDefaults with an object to override them for ALL tests. It must be called before any describeFixture() is called to work properly. The best place is in a test helper file.

You also are able to pass in test specific options as the last parameter to describeFixture(). See the Usage section above for an example.

Authors

Originally based off of an older version of nock-vcr-recorder by Jake Craige.

• Mark Terrel
• Jake Craige

Legal

© 2018-2019 Unbounded Systems, LLC

© 2014 Poetic Systems, Inc.

Licensed under the MIT license