Need help - Can we use Chai.js for database verification?

[Kedar Tiwaskar]

Hi,

I am using Runscope for API automation. I discovered that Chai.js is an assertion library which can be used in the Scripts section of runscope to add extra assertions.

I just wanted to ask that using Chai.js can we perform database verification?

The situation is as below:

When a POST request is submitted, it is going to create some data (lets say field x having value abc)

Now after the above call, I just want to verify that abc value is inserted in database properly.

(I know we can use GET call after POST so that it will fetch data, but I want to test is explicitly from the database)

Can anybody give me some idea on it? Whether it is possible or not.

Thanks in advance!

-Kedar

[Lucas Rafael Dutra]

Hi, Kedar. How are u doing?

Supposing that you are using MongoDB (which is not longer a problem whether you're using an other database), when you insert a new document you get the id of the last document inserted.

Therefore, you could just create a new endpoint in your server which takes in this id and then you will be able to assert values returned by the database.

heads up: try to create a nested test case where firstly you do a post request to insert a data which you want and right after you query by document id to assert values.

Hope this helps!