Unit Testing - Mocking API Calls

[marktucker]

I’m using JavaScript as opposed to TypeScript and have a handler that makes an API call. What strategies are you using?

Without dependency injection support in Jovo, one thought I had was to wrap the service call in a Jovo PlugIn and then use a ‘unit-test’ stage that enables the mock plugin vs the real one.

Or maybe a Hook listens for the request and determines the stage and adds the correct service function onto the request object.

[jan]

Hi Mark,
I think this feature proposal should be able to solve this:

Feature Proposal: Same-process testing

Currently, Jovo’s unit tests run in one process, while the app runs in another process. This has a few drawbacks: Requires separate step of starting the server. Inability to mock HTTP requests. Test coverage doesn’t work. I’m proposing to update the Conversation class so a request can be sent directly to the Jovo app under test. The test could import the app directly, and pass both the request and the app into a new send method that returns a JovoResponse object, but without the http commun…