Extend mocha to enable response re-use in multiple tests

[steff-mueller]

I would love to have a short syntax to re-use the response of the previous request in another test case:

describe('ServiceStack hello', function(){
    it.seq('Get some data', function(data, done){
        request('http://localhost')
        .get('/hello')
        .set('Accept', 'application/json')
        .expect({Id: 5})
        .expect(200, done);
    });

    it.seq('Should have data', function(data, done){
        request('http://localhost')
        .get('/hello/' + data.Id) //Use data from previous request
        .set('Accept', 'application/json')
        .expect(200, done);
    });
});

... á la https://github.com/Arxisos/trestle

What do you think about that? Does it make sense to integrate that into supertest or mocha?

[steff-mueller]

Ok, I extended https://github.com/Arxisos/trestle and now I don't think anymore that it is a good idea to provide such an easy way to have state in tests.

Therefore I don't propose a PR anymore. The ones who really need state (for acceptance/integration tests) should use a library like mine or implement something themselves.