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superagent-mock

superagent plugin allowing to simulate HTTP calls by returning data fixtures based on the requested URL.

Note: this plugin is developed for superagent: ^v1.1.0.

See this post to know why we use superagent-mock at M6Web.

Installation

Install with npm:

$ npm install superagent-mock

Usage

First, you have to define the URLs to mock in a configuration file:

// ./superagent-mock-config.js file
module.exports = [
  {
    /**
     * regular expression of URL
     */
    pattern: 'https://domain.example/(\\w+)/',

    /**
     * returns the data
     *
     * @param match array Result of the resolution of the regular expression
     * @param params object sent by 'send' function
     */
    fixtures: function (match, params) {
      /**
       * example: 
       *   request.get('https://error.example/404').end(function(err, res){
       *     console.log(err); // 404
       *   }) 
       */ 
      if (match[1] === '404') {
        throw new Error(404);
      }

      /**
       * example: 
       *   request.get('https://error.example/200').end(function(err, res){
       *     console.log(res.body); // "Data fixtures"
       *   })
       */

      /**
       * example: 
       *   request.get('https://domain.send.example/').send({superhero: "me"}).end(function(err, res){
       *     console.log(res.body); // "Data fixtures - superhero:me"
       *   }) 
       */
      if(params["superhero"]) {
        return 'Data fixtures - superhero:' + params["superhero"];
      } else {
        return 'Data fixtures';
      }
    },

    /**
     * returns the result of the request
     *
     * @param match array Result of the resolution of the regular expression
     * @param data  mixed Data returns by `fixtures` attribute
     */
    callback: function (match, data) {
      return {
        body: data
      };
    }
  },
  ...
];

Then use the plugin:

// ./server.js file
var request = require('superagent');
var config = require('./superagent-mock-config');

require('superagent-mock')(request, config);

Supported Methods

GET, POST and PUT requests are mocked.

Tests

To run units tests: npm test.

To check code style: npm run lint.

Credits

Developped by the Cytron Team of M6 Web.
Tested with nodeunit.

License

superagent-mock is licensed under the MIT license.