Monky

Mongoose fixtures library inspired by factory_girl

Philosophy

Inspired by factory_girl this library tries to bring similar functionality to node. The purpose is to avoid boilerplate code in your tests by creating models again and again, which can lead to very messy test suites when it comes to model with quite some columns.

Installation

$ npm install monky

Or put monky into your project's package.json file.

Usage

monky is separated into two steps: set up a factory (once) and use the factories to create models (unlimited).

Create factory

In order to build/create new documents, a factory needs to be set up for each model that will be used. This should be done in some kind of pre-test-suite-file or maybe in a global before()-function.

var mongoose  = require('mongoose')
  , Monky     = require('monky')
  , monky     = new Monky(mongoose);

monky.factory('User', { username: 'name' }, function(err) {
  // ..
});

// Set up factory without callback (throws)
monky.factory('User', { username: 'name' });

The above code set's up a new factory for the model named User. Each model that will be created from this factory will have an username which is set to name. All other paths will be empty.

Of course this is not enough to make documents valid. Therefore monky comes with a sequence function which replaces the String "#n" with a sequence number. So in order to have a unique username, one could use the following example:

monky.factory('User', { username: '#n name' });

This will lead to users with usernames like "1 name", "2 name" and so on. Embedded documents are also supported.

References

Monky also supports references between documents:

monky.factory('User', { username: 'foo' });
monky.factory('Message', { user: monky.ref('User') });

monky.build('Message', function(message) {
  console.log(message.user.username); // 'foo'
});

Referring to the specific path is also supported:

monky.factory('User', { username: 'bar' });
monky.factory('Message', { user_id: monky.ref('User', 'id') });

monky.build('Message', function(message) {
  console.log(message.user_id); // 53c6e964002c233e013ff4f8
});

The according factory must be defined before it can be used in a reference.

Passing reference instances as values

If you have an existing instance you can pass it as value to build/create:

monky.create('User', function(err, user) {
  monky.create('Message', { user: user }, function(err, message) {
    console.log(message.user.username); // ==> equals user.username
  });
});

If you don't need the child instance to be populated but only saved, you can pass the ObjectID instead:

monky.create('User', function(err, user) {
  monky.create('Message', { user: user._id }, function(err, message) {
    console.log(message.user); // ==> equals user.id
  });
});

Use factories to build/create mongoose documents

Build

The build function builds new mongoose models based on the set up factories without saving them.

monky.build('User', function(err, user) {
  // user ==> mongoose user model with pre set data
});

You can also set attributes when building, to replace default values

monky.build('User', { city: 'California', email: 'custom@email.com' }, function(err, user) {
  // user ==> mongoose user model with pre set data but with custom values
})

Create

create uses build to set up a new model instance and actually saves it.

monky.create('User', function(err, user) {
  // user ==> saved mongoose user model instance
});

You can also set attributes when creating, to replace default values

monky.create('User', { city: 'California', email: 'custom@email.com' }, function(err, user) {
  // user ==> saved mongoose user model with custom values
})

Build and create lists

As of version 0.0.4 one can build and create lists of documents:

monky.buildList('User', 5, function(err, users) {
  // users ==> array of 5 unsaved documents
});

monky.createList('User', 5, function(err, users) {
  // users ==> array of 5 saved documents
});

Reset factories

Since overwriting factories is not allowed, factories can be reset either completely or for a certain factory only:

monky.reset(); // Reset all
monky.reset('User'); // Reset only 'User' factory

Defining named factories

Monky uses the given factory name and maps it to the according model in mongoose. If you, however, want to access factories with a different name, you can tell monky which model to use:

monky.factory({ name: 'Admin', model: 'User' }, { username: username });
monky.build('Admin', function(err, admin) {
  // admin ==> is a User, accessed as Admin
});

Complete example using mocha

/*
 * Model file
 */
var mongoose = require('mongoose');
var Schema = new mongoose.Schema({ username: { type: 'string', unique: true, required: true }});
mongoose.model('User', Schema);

/*
 * Pre-test file (setup)
 */
var mongoose  = require('mongoose')
  , Monky     = require('monky')
  , monky     = new Monky(mongoose);

monky.factory('User', { username: '#n name' });

// Mongoose connect and other setup stuff

module.exports.monky = monky;

/*
 * Actual test
 */
var monky = require('../setup').monky;

describe('User', function() {
  it('should not save without username', function(done) {
    monky.build('User', function(err, user) {
      user.name = undefined;
      user.save(function(err) {
        // Expect err
      });
    });
  });

  it('should save user with valid data', function(done) {
    monky.build('User', function(err, user) {
      user.save(done);
    });
  });

  it('should return computed amount of order', function(done) {
    monky.create('User', function(err, user) {
      var amount = user.getComputedOrderAmount();
      // Do some checks here...
    });
  });
});

// Alternatively one can create a new user using before hook
describe('User', function() {
  beforeEach(function(done) {
    var suite = this;
    monky.create('User', function(err, user) {
      if (err) return done(err);
      suite.user = user;
      done();
    );
  });
});

Promises

As of version 0.6.0 Monky also fully supports promises for all public facing build/create functions, e.g.:

monky.build('User').then(function(user) {
  // user ==> built doc
}, function(err) {
  // err ==> triggered error
});

Note: Monky uses mpromise for promise handling, as does mongoose. The current implementation of mpromise uses node 0.10.x APIs, making the promise part of Monky not suitable for prior versions. If you're still using node 0.8.x, use the callback interface instead.

Running tests

Install dev dependencies and run the tests.

$ npm i
$ make test

License

(The MIT License)

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