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For questions regarding integration testing used with chai-http library. It is an add-on plugin for chai library to be used in integration testing.

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chai-http not exiting after running tests

I ran into a problem where my mocha tests were not finishing after running with chai-http. Mocha just hangs after the tests and eventually runs into a timeout (at least on my CI).
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Set accepted CA list and ignore SSL errors with chai-http

I'm trying to write unit tests for my node code with chai/chai-http. Everything was working fine until I switched my server to an HTTPS server, but because my certificate is signed by an internal company root and the common name of the certificate…
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How to do HTTPS GET with client certificate in Axios

How to perform get request with client certificate like below using chai-http? curl -k --key [key_path] --cert [cert-path]:secret 'https://127.0.0.1/url' The following code returns error: Error: error:0906A068:PEM routines:PEM_do_header:bad…
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How to correctly close express server between tests using mocha and chai

I am looking for a correct way to completely reset my express server between tests! It seems that this is not just a problem for me, many other users have asked the same question, and many blog posts had been written on the argument. The proposed…
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Stubbing Out Middleware

I'm trying to use Sinon to stub out some custom middleware in an express route but it's not working as I expect it to. I expect it to not log "I am authenticating..." and instead log "Stubbed" to the console. It looks like sinon is not stubbing out…
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Testing GraphQL API

I'm testing my GraphQL API, but I would like to clean it up a little bit. It's worth noting I'm using chai-http for the network requests. Here's what I'm currently doing (which works): let createUser = (()=> { return new Promise((resolve, reject)…
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How to send context parameter in unit test to a firebase functions running on the functions emulator

I manage to start the firebase emulators and load a cloud function. Now I want to write a test. PROBLEM I use chai-http to call the function in the emulator but I do not succeed in sending a context to the function. when calling the function using…
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Chai-Http always returns 404 error code

So basically, I have this rest api written off Node and Express using Typescript. I am trying to use chai, chai-http and mocha to get the api endpoints tested. But whichever test runs, I always get a 404 not found. Here is my code: app.ts: let…
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How to TDD koa2 with mocha?

I'm trying to get a TDD workflow going with koa2/mocha/chai/chai-http but my problem is that when I run the tests the koa2 server keeps running after the tests are finished. So that I have to Ctrl+C (kill) it every time. Can anyone tell me how to…
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How to use Chai-HTTP with Sinon?

Here is the route I want to test: app.post('/api/user', (req, res) => { dbService.replaceUserOnDuplicate(req.body, function returnResponse(insertedId) { if (insertedId === 0 || insertedId === req.body.id) { …
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It's possible to write api rest automated test using webdriverIO and chai-http?

I'm trying to use webdriverIO to make automatic test over an API rest without any result, also try with chai and chai-http using webdriverIO, but nothing yet. Any clue? This is something I wrote: var chai = require('chai'); var chaiHttp =…
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chai-http and async.each, throwing "Timeout of 2000ms exceeded..."

I have a simple test with chai-http, in which I try to test several URLs using async.each, but when the request takes more than 2 seconds, then I got the error. it("it should GET the required images", (done) => { async.each(get_data,…
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Testing express.Router() with chai gives "TypeError: res.send is not a function"?

I have a controller/route file like this.. const express = require('express'); const pService = require('../../services/parameter/service'); let router = express.Router() router.get('/valuebyobject/:main/:sub?', pService.getValue); and the…
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Query params using chai-http request are not assigned to _query object

I am writing unit tests for an ts node api. I am using the chai-http to instantiate/mock requests, however using the .query option referred to in the docs here does not seem to actually add my query params to the request objects qs parameter. const…
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How to test an API that calls another external API in node

I'm using mocha, chai, and chai-http to test my simple API that routes calls from Slack to Habitica, integrating these two services. I'm trying to start by creating tests, but I'm facing this issue: when I call my API, the code returns before the…
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