Running a frisby test from within a promise

[dguerrier]

Is there anyway to get a frisby test to run if it's inside of a promise? I'm using an API based on promises to make API calls to set up the data for tests. If i were to use frisby's http calls it would pollute the test and require a ton of nested callbacks. I would like to simply do something like this.

theAPIcall().then(function(data){
frisby.create('Very useful for HTML, text, or raw output')
.get('http://asciime.heroku.com/generate_ascii?s=Frisby.js')
.inspectBody()
.toss()
});

[tellezhector]

+1

This will be magnificent. I have to collect a lot of information from an API.
And it is horrible to have nested tests just to do so.

[katerberg]

This would be very helpful. If I am using an internal promise, then there is no way to have these tests run without this.

[dguerrier]

I was able to work around this by using Jasmine's beforeEach() and it()
which handle promises

beforeEach(function(done) {

aPromise().then(function(response){
something = response;
}).then(function(){
yourPromise()
done()
})

  }).done

})

});

it("contains spec with an expectation", function() {
frisby.create

})

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wrote:

This would be very helpful. If I am using an internal promise, then there
is no way to have these tests run without this.

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[katerberg]

That definitely works. I would prefer a way to not have to wrap all of my frisby test in external jasmine wrappers, but your solution seems to work.

Thanks @dguerrier

[bgdavidx]

I've created a fork that allows you to use Promises from within frisby. Check it out at https://github.com/bgdavidx/frisby

The API is the same; however you can use .promisedToss() to return a frisby promise. (Requires bluebird)

[oscartcy]

+1 for official support

[AndyWendt]

Here is a work around since it is based off of Jasmine and can use done().

For example:

'use strict';

const frisby = require('frisby');
const api = require('./api-helpers');

// api.before returns a promise and is a local file which returns module exports
// describe() & it() are from Jasmine

describe('Products ', () => {
  it("retrieves the products collection", (done) => {
     api.before('Products', 'getCollection').then((seedData) => {
       frisby.create('Ensure products collection is correct ')
         .addHeaders(seedData.meta.headers)
         .get('http://yoursite.dev/api/products')
         .expectHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json')
         .expectStatus(200)
         .toss();
       done();
     });
  });
});

[vlucas]

Frisby v2.0 will fix this (see #316) since it uses promises internally. There is even a new API method that you can call to return the internal promise object from fetch called promise().

[geolunalg]

any update on Frisby v2.0

[vlucas]

Frsiby v2.0 alpha is here and ready to use. It is now in the master branch, and can be installed and used via the instructions in the README.