如何使用Mocha和Unitjs来测试需要登录的Sails js控制器？

Question

I am new to testing. Recently I have developed one Sails project. It works fine. But now I want to write test cases for the whole project. I am facing the problem of how to first authenticate and then test the Sails project using Mocha and Unit Js.

One of my controllers has a function that displays a report, but only to those users who are logged in. How can I write a test case for this logic?

Thanks

Answer 1

Try this,

  var request=require('supertest');
  var cookie;
  request(app)
  .post('/login')
  .send({ email: "user@gluck.com", password:'password' })
  .end(function(err,res){
    res.should.have.status(200);
    cookie = res.headers['set-cookie'];
    done();        
  });

  //
  // and use the cookie on the next request
  request(app)
  .get('/v1/your/path')
  .set('cookie', cookie)
  .end(function(err,res){  
    res.should.have.status(200);
    done();        
  });

thanks

Answer 2

In test enviroment you may use Cookies to persist session informations. You can check my GIST example of cookie usage wit Sails, Mocha and supertest: gist

Answer 3

For sails 1.0 , the following works:

First, make sure you define an own test environment where you disable csrf .

  security: {
    csrf: false
  }

If you do not do this, you will later not be able to authenticate in your tests and receive 403 errors.

Optionally (if you do use a ephemeral database for testing like the in-memory-db), create a user in the lifecycle.test.js file's callback where you find the comment here you can load fixtures, etc. :

await User.createEach([
  { id: 123123, emailAddress: 'tester@myapp.com', fullName: 'Tester 1', isSuperAdmin: true, password: await sails.helpers.passwords.hashPassword('abc123') },
]);

Then execute your test the following way (using promises):

var supertest = require('supertest');

const login = { emailAddress: 'tester@myapp.com', password: 'abc123' };

describe('This is my test', () => {

  describe('#sampleTest()', () => {
    it('should perform my action without error', () => {
      var cookie;
      return supertest(sails.hooks.http.app)
      .put('/api/v1/entrance/login')
      .send(login)
      .expect(200)
      .then(response => {
        cookie = response.headers['set-cookie'];

        // Here comes what you really want to test
        return supertest(sails.hooks.http.app)
        .put('/api/v1/mycontroller/action/123')
        .set('cookie', cookie)
        .send()
        .expect(200);
      }).catch(err => {
        console.log(err);
        throw err;
      });
    });
  });
});

This way, you first authenticate with your test user and then execute your test function with that user.