Mocha Nock Fixtures

About

A simple 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-fixtures

Usage

Use describeFixture instead of describe and it will use nock to record all requests into your test/fixtures directory. It also supports .skip and .only as mocha does.

var request         = require('request');
var assert          = require('assert');
var describeFixture = require('mocha-nock-fixtures');
 
describeFixture('normal test', function() {
  it('works', function(done) {
    request('http://localhost:4000/users', function(err, res, body) {
      assert(!err, 'was success');
      done();
    });
  });
 
  describe('some other test', function() {
    // You can use mocha how you normally would to group tests
  });
});
 
describeFixture.skip('skipped test', function() {
  // Anything in here will be skipped
});
 
describeFixture.only('only test', function() {
  // This will be the only test run
});
 
// Usage with test specific options
//
// This test will not record the request to localhost:4000 and anything it does
// record it will also record the reqheaders
describeFixture('normal test', {
  excludeScope: 'localhost:4000',
  recorder: {
    enable_reqheaders_recording: true
  }
}, function() {
  it('works', function(done) {
    request('http://localhost:4000/users', function(err, res, body) {
      assert(!err, 'was success');
      done();
    });
  });
 
  describe('some other test', function() {
    // You can use mocha how you normally would to group tests
  });
});

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

• Jake Craige

Versioning

This library follows Semantic Versioning

Want to help?

Please do! We are always looking to improve this library. If you have any ideas please open an issue or a pull requests and we'll work on getting them in.

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Licensed under the MIT license