I am testing my API which receives a file as input. I tried using attach() function and it works pretty much fine. To cover all my use cases, I will have to use around 20 different input files. Instead of keeping all these 20 files, I was thinking of storing every such possible inputs in a single JSON file.
Example:
{
"input-1":[
"Name, Email, Phone, Address",
"Sam, sam@xyz.com,0123498765,HomeAddress"
],
"input-2":[
"Name, Email, Phone, Address",
"Yam, Yam@xyz.com,0123498766,HomeAddress"
],
"input-3":[
"Name, Email, Phone, Address",
"Ram, Ram@xyz.com,0123498767,HomeAddress"
]
}
Here each entry (input-1,input-2,input-3) represents content for each file. This is just a sample. The actual file will have multiple lines for each such test input.
So, what I need is to extract each input and convert it as a file while calling the API. How do I achieve this using Chai?
you could iterate data and and create tests and files dynamically, and attach them, including also all file related info for the server to parse:
const files = {
"input-1": [
"Name, Email, Phone, Address",
"Sam, sam@xyz.com,0123498765,HomeAddress"
],
"input-2": [
"Name, Email, Phone, Address",
"Yam, Yam@xyz.com,0123498766,HomeAddress"
],
"input-3": [
"Name, Email, Phone, Address",
"Ram, Ram@xyz.com,0123498767,HomeAddress"
]
}
describe('uploading', () => {
for (const [file, data] of Object.entries(files)) {
it(`file ${file} should pass`, (done) => {
chai.request(app)
.post('/endpoint')
// create file dynamically
.attach('file', Buffer.from(data, 'utf-8'), {
// add file info accordingly
filename: `${file}.txt`,
contentType: 'text/plain',
knownLength: data.length
})
.end((err, res) => {
if (err) {
throw err;
}
expect(res).to.have.status(200);
done();
})
});
}
});