@medley/self-request

A Medley plugin that augments an app to be able to make HTTP requests to itself for testing purposes.

It adds a .request() method to the app that will start the app server and make HTTP requests to it using got.

Installation

npm install @medley/self-request --save-dev
# or
yarn add @medley/self-request --dev

Example Usage

app.js

const medley = require('@medley/medley');
const app = medley();

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send('Hello');
});

module.exports = app;

test.js

const assert = require('assert').strict;
const app = require('./app');

app.register(require('@medley/self-request'));

describe('app', () => {
  it('should say Hello', async () => {
    const res = await app.request('/');

    assert.equal(res.statusCode, 200);
    assert.equal(res.body, 'Hello');
  });
});

Plugin Options

gotDefaults

Type: Object

An object of got options that will be used as the defaults for each request.

These options will be merged in with the following defaults:

{
  retry: 0,
  timeout: 2000,
  followRedirect: false,
  throwHttpErrors: false,
  rejectUnauthorized: false,
  headers: {
    'user-agent': '@medley/self-request (https://github.com/medleyjs/self-request)',
  },
}

Example:

const medley = require('@medley/medley');
const app = medley();

app.get('/', (req, res) => {
  res.send({ hello: 'world' });
});

app.register(require('@medley/self-request'), {
  gotDefaults: {
    responseType: 'json',
  },
});

(async () => {
  const res = await app.request('/hello');
  console.log(res.body); // { hello: 'world' }
})();

API

app.request([url], [options])

Returns a Promise that resolves with a got response object.

Automatically calls app.listen() if the server is not already listening.

url

Type: string

The route URL to request.

app.request('/hello');

options

Type: Object

An object of got options.

app.request('/hello', {
  method: 'POST',
  body: 'Greetings',
});

app.request({
  url: '/hello',
  method: 'POST',
  body: 'Greetings',
});

Usage with sub-apps

If called on a prefixed sub-app, the url is relative to that sub-app.

const medley = require('@medley/medley');
const app = medley();

app.register(require('@medley/self-request'));

const v1App = app.createSubApp('/v1');

v1App.get('/hello', (req, res) => {
  res.send('Hello');
});

(async () => {
  const res = await v1App.request('/hello');
  console.log(res.body); // -> 'Hello'
})();