feat(*) generate http fixtures via nock

npm run generate-http-fixtures will generate a test/fixtures/http.json file with all the mocked requests (containing any infos for the stub - requests headers, response headers / body ...)

Author: topheman

bin/nock/call-nock.js

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/**
+ * This script records the http requests (requests / response with body and headers)
+ * so that they could be mocked for unit test.
+ * This task is automated, this way, you don't have to bother to do it manually ! ;-)
+ *
+ * For the moment, I request the github API via topheman-apis-proxy (direct request gives encoded results, which might
+ * be because of https or gzip which aren't managed yet by nock).
+ */
+
+const nock = require('nock');
+const request = require('superagent');
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+
+const OUTPUT_PATH = './test/fixtures/http.json';
+
+nock.recorder.rec({
+  output_objects: true,
+  enable_reqheaders_recording: true,
+  dont_print: true
+});
+
+const uris = [
+  '/users/topheman',
+  '/users/topheman/repos?page=1&per_page=15&sort=stars',
+  '/users/topheman/repos?page=2&per_page=15&sort=stars',
+  '/users/topheman/repos?page=3&per_page=15&sort=stars',
+  '/users/topheman/followers',
+  '/search/users?q=tophe'
+];
+
+const promises = uris.map((uri) => {
+  return request.get('http://localhost:8000/github' + uri)
+});
+
+Promise.all(promises)
+  .then(() => {
+    const nockCallObjects = nock.recorder.play();
+    if (nockCallObjects.length > 0) {
+      // bellow some processing to cleanup the mock so that they could be correctly used (according to your use-case, it could differ a little)
+      const output = nockCallObjects.map((item) => {
+        item.scope = 'http://localhost'; // change the host name (avoid CORS), and protocol (superagent-mocker considers ":" as wildcard, so you can't put a port)
+        item.path = item.path.replace(/^\/github/,''); // remove the leading "/github" (in topheman-apis-proxy), so that relative url will be used
+        console.log(item.path);
+        return item;
+      });
+      fs.writeFileSync(OUTPUT_PATH, JSON.stringify(output));
+      console.log('Saved in ', OUTPUT_PATH);
+      process.exit(0);
+    }
+    throw new Error('No results');
+  })
+  .catch(error => console.log('[ERROR]', error.message));

package.json

@@ -21,7 +21,8 @@
     "webpack": "./node_modules/.bin/webpack-dev-server --progress --colors --hot --inline",
     "webpack-dev": "API_ROOT_URL='http://localhost:8000/github' DEVTOOLS=true npm run webpack",
     "webpack-mock": "DEVTOOLS=true NODE_ENV=mock npm run webpack",
-    "webpack-dev-simple": "DEVTOOLS=true npm run webpack"
+    "webpack-dev-simple": "DEVTOOLS=true npm run webpack",
+    "generate-http-fixtures": "node ./bin/nock/call-nock.js"
   },
   "pre-commit": [
     "test"
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@
     "lodash": "^3.10.1",
     "mocha": "^2.3.4",
     "moment": "^2.10.6",
+    "nock": "^3.3.2",
     "node-sass": "^3.3.3",
     "pre-commit": "^1.1.2",
     "react-addons-test-utils": "^0.14.3",

test/fixtures/http.json

@@ -166,7 +166,13 @@ var config = {
       { test: /\.(png|woff|woff2|eot|ttf|svg)$/, loader: 'url-loader?limit=100000' }
     ]
   },
-  plugins: plugins
+  plugins: plugins,
+  node:{
+    console: true,
+    fs: 'empty',
+    net: 'empty',
+    tls: 'empty'
+  }
 };
 
 module.exports = config;