Mock http requests made using fetch (or isomorphic-fetch)
notes
- When using isomorphic-fetch or node-fetch ideally
fetch
should be added as a global. If not possible to do so you can still use fetch-mock in combination with mockery in nodejs (seeuseNonGlobalFetch(func)
below) - fetch-mock doesn't declare
fetch
orPromise
as dependencies; as you're testingfetch
it's assumed you're already taking care of these globals - fetch-mock uses npm debug. To output useful messages for debugging set the environment variable
DEBUG=fetch-mock
- If you prefer documentation by example skip to the bottom of this README
- To use fetch-mock on the server simply
npm install fetch-mock
andrequire('fetch-mock)
. In the browser either- use browserify + debowerify and both
npm install fetch-mock
andbower install fetch-mock
, then userequire('fetch-mock)
- use browserify and
npm install fetch-mock
andrequire('fetch-mock/client)
- use browserify + debowerify and both
require('fetch-mock')
exports a singleton with the following methods
Replaces fetch()
with a sinon stub which, in addition to the default sinon behaviour, records it's calls, grouped by route, and optionally returns a stub response or passes the call through to fetch()
. config
is an optional* object with the following properties.
routes
: Either a single object or an array of similar objects each defining how the mock handles a given request. If multiple routes are specified the first matching route will be used to define the response. Each route object must have the following properties.name
: A unique string naming the routematcher
: The rule for matching calls tofetch()
. Accepts any of the followingstring
: Either an exact url to match e.g. 'http://www.site.com/page.html' or, if the string begins with a^
, the string following the^
must begin the url e.g. '^http://www.site.com' would match 'http://www.site.com' or 'http://www.site.com/page.html'RegExp
: A regular expression to test the url againstFunction(url, opts)
: A function that is passed the url and optsfetch()
is called with and that returns a Boolean
response
: Configures the response object returned by the mock. Can take any of the following values-
number
: creates a response with the number as the response status -
string
: creates a 200 response with the string as the response body -
object
: If the object contains any of the properties body, status, headers, throws; then these properties - all of them optional - are used to construct a response as followsbody
: Returned in the response bodystatus
: Returned in the response statusheaders
: Returned in the response headers. They should be defined as an object literal (property names case-insensitive) which will be converted to aHeaders
instancethrows
: If this property is present then aPromise
rejected with the value ofthrows
is returned
As long as the object does not contain any of the above properties it is converted into a json string and this is returned as the body of a 200 response
-
Function(url, opts)
: A function that is passed the url and optsfetch()
is called with and that returns any of the responses listed above
-
responses
: WhenregisterRoute()
has already been used to register some routes thenresponses
can be used to override the default response. Its value should be an object mapping route names to responses, which should be similar to those listed immediately above e.g.
responses: {
session: function (url, opts) {
if (opts.headers.authorized) {
return {user: 'dummy-authorized-user'};
} else {
return {user: 'dummy-unauthorized-user'};
}
}
}
greed
: Determines how the mock handles unmatched requests- 'none': all unmatched calls get passed through to
fetch()
- 'bad': all unmatched calls result in a rejected promise
- 'good': all unmatched calls result in a resolved promise with a 200 status
- 'none': all unmatched calls get passed through to
* config
is optional only when preconfigured routes have already been setup
Restores fetch()
to its unstubbed state and clears all data recorded for its calls
Clears all data recorded for fetch()
's calls
Returns an array of arrays of the arguments passed to fetch()
that matched the given route. '__unmatched' can be passed in to return results for calls not matching any route.
Returns a Boolean denoting whether any calls matched the given route. '__unmatched' can be passed in to return results for calls not matching any route. If no routeName is passed it returns true
if any fetch calls were made
Normally calling mock()
twice without restoring inbetween will throw an error. reMock()
calls restore()
internally before calling mock()
again. This allows you to put a generic call to mock()
in a beforeEach()
while retaining the flexibility to vary the responses for some tests
Often your application/module will need a mocked response for some http requests in order to initialise properly, even if the content of those calls are not the subject of a given test e.g. a mock response from an authentication service and a multi-variant testing service might be necessary in order to test the UI for a version of a log in form. It's helpful to be able to define some default responses for these services which will exist throughout all or a large subset of your tests. registerRoute()
aims to fulfil this need. All these predefined routes can be overridden when mock(config)
is called.
registerRoute()
takes either of the following parameters
object
: An object similar to the route objects accepted bymock()
array
: An array of the above objectsname
,matcher
,response
: The 3 properties of the route object spread across 3 parameters
Unregisters one or more previously registered routes. Accepts either a string or an array of strings
To use fetch-mock with with mockery you will need to use this function to prevent fetch-mock trying to mock the function globally.
func
Optional reference tofetch
(or any other function you may want to substitute forfetch
in your tests). This will be converted to asinon.stub
and can be accessed viafetchMock.fetch
var fetch = require('node-fetch');
var fetchMock = require('fetch-mock');
var mockery = require('mockery');
fetchMock.useNonGlobalFetch(fetch);
fetchMock.registerRoute([
...
])
it('should make a request', function (done) {
mockery.registerMock('fetch', fetchMock.mock());
// test code goes in here
mockery.deregisterMock('fetch');
done();
});
var fetchMock = require('fetch-mock');
// Set up some routes you will always want to mock
// Accepts an array of config objects or three parameters,
// name, matcher and response, to add a single route
fetchMock.registerRoute([
{
name: 'session',
matcher: 'https://sessionservice.host.com',
response: {
body: 'user-12345',
// opts is as expected by https://github.com/bitinn/node-fetch/blob/master/lib/response.js
// headers should be passed as an object literal (fetch-mock will convert it into a Headers instance)
// status defaults to 200
opts: {
headers: {
'x-status': 'unsubscribed'
},
status: 401
}
}
},
{
name: 'geo',
matcher: /^https\:\/\/geoservice\.host\.com/,
// objects will be converted to strings using JSON.stringify before being returned
response: {
body: {
country: 'uk'
}
}
}
])
it('should do A', function () {
fetchMock.mock({
// none: all unmatched calls get sent straight through to the default fetch
// bad: all unmatched calls result in a rejected promise
// good: all unmatched calls result in a resolved promise with a 200 status
greed: 'none'
});
thingToTest.exec();
// returns an array of calls to the session service,
// each item in the array is an array of the arguments passed to fetch
// similar to sinon.spy.args
fetchMock.calls('session') // non empty array
fetchMock.called('geo') // Boolean
// reset all call logs
fetchMock.reset()
fetchMock.calls('session') // undefined
fetchMock.called('geo') // false
// fetch itself is just an ordinary sinon.stub
fetch.calledWith('thing')
// restores fetch and resets all data
fetchMock.restore();
})
describe('content', function () {
before(function () {
// register an additional route, this one has a more complex matching rule
fetchMock.registerRoute('content', function (url, opts) {
return opts.headers.get('x-api-key') && url.test(/^https\:\/\/contentservice\.host\.com/);
}, {body: 'I am an article'});
});
after(function () {
fetchMock.unregisterRoute('content');
})
it('should do B', function () {
fetchMock.mock({
// you can choose to mock a subset of the registered routes
// and even add one to be mocked for this test only
// - the route will exist until fetchMock.restore() is called
routes: ['session', 'content', {
name: 'enhanced-content',
matcher: /^https\:\/\/enhanced-contentservice\.host\.com/,
// responses can be contextual depending on the request
// url and opts parameters are exactly what would be passed to fetch
response: function (url, opts) {
return {body: 'enhanced-article-' + url.split('article-id/')[1]};
}
}]
});
thingToTest.exec();
fetchMock.calls('content') // non empty array
fetchMock.called('enhanced-content') // Boolean
// restores fetch and resets all data
fetchMock.restore();
})
it('should do C', function () {
fetchMock.mock({
// you can override the response for a service for this test only
// this means e.g. you can configure an authentication service to return
// a valid user normally, but only return invalid for the one test
// where you're testing authentication
responses: {
'session': 'invalid-user'
}
});
thingToTest.exec();
// restores fetch and resets all data
fetchMock.restore();
})
});