Geddy Unit Testing Controller

[Heriyanto Binduni]

how you unit test geddy controller? this is an example i want to test.

var assert = require('assert')
    , tests
    , controller = geddy.controller.create('Users');

tests = {
    'test user controller, add new user': function (next) {
        var user = User.create({username: 'hbinduni',
            password: 'MyPassword!',
            confirmPassword: 'MyPassword!',
            familyName: 'binduni',
            givenName: 'binduni',
            email: 'hbin...@email.com'});

        //need to unit test controller.add here
        //how to mock req, resp?
        controller.add(req, resp, user);

        assert.equal(out, null);
        next();
    }

};

module.exports = tests;

how can i do unit test on controller method? how to mock request and response?

thank you.

[Matthew Eernisse]

Have a look at how we test the BaseController:

https://github.com/geddy/geddy/blob/master/test/controllers/base_controller.js

That should give you some ideas how to exercise your controller code.

Hope that helps.

Best,

Matthew

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[Heriyanto Binduni]

thank you matthew for your reply. i have look into that before but still i didn't understand. can you give more example please?

[Matthew Eernisse]

A better example might be the responder tests:

https://github.com/geddy/geddy/blob/master/test/controllers/controller_respond.js#L46

Although the BaseController tests give you an example of how to import your constructor for the controller and instantiate it.

Basically the idea is to instantiate a controller, and override the `output` method, which is the low-level controller method which actually writes out the response content. You can override `output` with a function that simply checks that the output is what you expect after running certain controller methods.

Hope that helps.

Matthew