How to unit test handlers

[ryanflorence]

https://gist.github.com/rpflorence/1f72da0cd9e507ebec29

Until the new API shows up, this works out pretty great.

[OscarGodson]

Made a comment on the gist. It's missing the merge function so I copy pasta'd one.

Seems to be working, but looks as though its stripping all methods from the component I'm testing. I assume its something to do with either the render or TestWrapper(props).

So If I have a Foo React class and Foo has a method bar() on it, when I do:

var foo = TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(makeStubbedDescriptor(Foo, {}));

Now Foo.bar is undefined whereas removing the makeStubbedDescriptor function from the renderIntoDocument call makes bar() exist again.

I'm trying to play around with the right way to render this with the existing Class' methods and stuff, but any guidance would be incredibly helpful.

[an1lam]

I'm also having issues getting Jest to deal with the react-router components. I tried the makeStubbedDescriptor method, as displayed below:

/** @jsx React.DOM */
jest.dontMock('jquery');
jest.dontMock('../test_helpers.jsx');
jest.dontMock('../js/components/CategoryPage.jsx');

describe('Category Page', function() {
  var React = require('react/addons');
  var TestUtils = React.addons.TestUtils;
  var helpers = require('../test_helpers.jsx');
  var makeStubbedDescriptor = helpers.makeStubbedDescriptor;
  var CategoryPage = require('../js/components/CategoryPage.jsx');


  it('renders into the page correctly', function() {
    // Render the CategoryPage into the document
    var TestCategoryPage = makeStubbedDescriptor(CategoryPage, {});
    var page = TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(TestCategoryPage);

    expect($.ajax).toBeCalled();
    expect(div).toBeDefined();
  });
});

And getting the following error:

● Category Page › it renders into the page correctly
   - Error: Invariant Violation: addComponentAsRefTo(...): Only a ReactOwner can have refs. This usually means that you're trying to add a ref to a component that doesn't have an owner (that is, was not created inside of another component's `render` method). Try rendering this component inside of a new top-level component which will hold the ref.

[OscarGodson]

Yeah, fwiw, I spent quite a few hours on this with 0 luck. It kinda sucks because Ive been unable to test any of the code we're working on. :\

[ryanflorence]

We're going for a release this week with the new API that makes testing
much more straightforward.

We've got several apps now using the router and we don't commit code
without tests. I feel the pain, have worked around it, and am passionate
about simple testing.

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Yeah, fwiw, I spent quite a few hours on this with 0 luck. It kinda sucks
because Ive been unable to test any of the code we're working on. :\

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[an1lam]

Thanks you so much. My team is really looking forward to this. We look forward to the announcement / release!

[OscarGodson]

thanks @rpflorence! Since this ticket is closed, is there anyway you could just comment on this ticket when its released so I can get notified? Id like to implement the update once its done :)

[ryanflorence]

Yep :)

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thanks @rpflorence https://github.com/rpflorence! Since this ticket is
closed, is there anyway you could just comment on this ticket when its
released so I can get notified? Id like to implement the update once its
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[OscarGodson]

Any update on this?

[ryanzec]

I am still getting the same error as #453 (I assume 0.11.x was suppose to fix this).

[ryanzec]

Well I did finally figure out how to get tests working without huge hacks. This test file : https://github.com/rackt/react-router/blob/master/modules/components/__tests__/Link-test.js : gave me the best insight on how to structure my tests.

[OscarGodson]

@ryanzec could you post the setup code and an example unit test?

[ryanzec]

@OscarGodson well my setup is using Mocha to run the tests. I have a react seed project that has the test setup:

Test Helper: https://github.com/ryanzec/react-seed/blob/master/test/test-helper.js#L31-L47
Test Example: https://github.com/ryanzec/react-seed/blob/master/test/specs/components/desktop/prevent-double-click.component.spec.jsx

I think that helper method should handle a lot of use cases and most of the time I expect to be test 1 component with 1 route in my unit tests but I am sure as I build out my application, i'll be making tweaks to the helper method or even added more.

[OscarGodson]

@ryanzec you rock, thank you!

[dmwyatt]

We're going for a release this week with the new API that makes testing
much more straightforward.

@rpflorence Did this ever happen?

[mjackson]

@dmwyatt Yes, it did. See the part about testing in https://github.com/rackt/react-router/wiki/Announcements

[dmwyatt]

Ahh thanks. That page doesn't come up in googlin for stuff about
react-router testing.

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@dmwyatt https://github.com/dmwyatt Yes, it did. See the part about
testing in https://github.com/rackt/react-router/wiki/Announcements

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[mjackson]

There are also quite a few good examples in our own tests. Just look for
the tests directories inside the modules directory.

Michael Jackson
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Ahh thanks. That page doesn't come up in googlin for stuff about
react-router testing.

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[azaharakis]

Hi the above gist, is 404ing, was hoping it would have some answers to my problem if it's still relevant. I'm having trouble understanding how one can unit test routeHandlers. In my case I have setup an app which is quite similar to the async data example in this repo, my handlers are very basic injecting async data into a another react component.
In my test I just want to verify that the routeHandler calls the correct react component with mock data from the statics fetchData method.
I'm using rewire to attempt to stub the react subcomponent in the handler but it still calls the actual sub component. Using rewire with my other components not going through the react-router seems to work as expected.

[fredrick]

@azaharakis Here is a basic snippet of a TestContext provider that is based off the above gist. Hopefully this helps: https://gist.github.com/wayoutmind/76e17f07409be07ffdcb

[azaharakis]

@wayoutmind, that's something I was after however, the problem still remains if I need to stub out a subcomponent. I've modeled what you have supplied to something I'm trying to do:
https://gist.github.com/azaharakis/db4cc200de559efa34e1
If I render App directly all is ok and the AppSubComponent is stubbed.
However the process of going through react router seems to require or load the handler without the stubbed methods, and actually calls the subcomponent.

[azaharakis]

Actually, the above method seems to work... Nothing to see here... Thanks for your help! I'll leave it up incase it helps anyone else.

[adjavaherian]

For people that are still having issues with testing React-Router based components in their own project. I've forked https://github.com/danvk/mocha-react and utilized the solution by @wayoutmind to provide test context to complicated components. This suite uses Mocha instead of Jest and allows you to have a lot more flexibility with stubs, mocks, spies. https://github.com/adjavaherian/mocha-react

[gregpalaci]

Getting weird errors with the TestLocation recommended way to use the router to test.
Keep getting - TypeError: Cannot call a class as a function
and I isolated it to TestLocation as a param in Router.run as the issue.

    TestLocation.history = ['/congratulations/id-1']
    Router.run routes,TestLocation.history, (Handler) ->
        TestUtils.renderIntoDocument(<Handler />)

[kellyrmilligan]

@gregbenner did you ever get this worked out? i'm just starting out on getting unit tests working again with the new recommended way

[kellyrmilligan]

is memory history now the preferred way?

[fredrick]

@kellyrmilligan @gregbenner You'll need to construct the TestLocation in newer versions of react-router instead of setting history:

new TestLocation(['/test'])

[fredrick]

I've updated my gist to show this: https://gist.github.com/wayoutmind/76e17f07409be07ffdcb

[gregpalaci]

I'd also recommend not using Jest, it's really terrible. It's super slow.. depends on old versions of Node.

This article has some tips for setting up testing with React
https://medium.com/about-codecademy/testing-with-reactjs-at-codecademy-2aec88cc4e36

[kellyrmilligan]

agreed. i'm using tape with karma and just tape straight up with node. trying out wayoutminds gist

[kellyrmilligan]

i'm still hitting a bit of a brick wall here. does test location match the default route?

here's my config:

<Route name="app" path="/shows" handler={App}>
    <DefaultRoute handler={ShowsHomePage}/>
   <Route name="showsDetail" path=":slug" handler={ShowsDetailPage}/>
...other routes defined here...
  </Route>

I included my routes definition into the getcontext method, so it's as follows:

getRouterComponent: function(path, TargetComponent, state, data) {
    var component,
      div = document.createElement('div'),
      routes = routes;

    var location = new TestLocation([path]);

    Router.run(routes, location, function (Handler) {
      var mainComponent = React.render(<Handler state={state} data={data} />, div);

      component = TestUtils.findRenderedComponentWithType(mainComponent,
        TargetComponent);
    });

    return component;

  },

in the console, i'm getting:
Warning: No route matches path "/shows"

i can't get it to work with a route that has a param either. still no match. I feel like I need to include my routes, since in my handlers i'm using named routes in link components everywhere, so if I don't then I get an invariant violation.

any ideas?