Data driven test using Frisbyjs about frisby

[damehta]

+1

[vlucas]

I'm sure you could, but I'm not sure how it would look. Can you give me any examples of the type of thing you are looking for?

[damehta]

For example: I am looking to get student details by making REST call by passing studentId parameter to my api method. In this case I imagine to have studentId in tabular format in xlsx file. The for each row in xlsx file make a rest call & validate expected response data.
Pls Let me know if you need more specific details. TIA.

[damehta]

Want to do something similar to what is explained here in "Scenario Outlines" section: http://docs.behat.org/guides/1.gherkin.html

[damehta]

• Below is my pseudo code that I am trying to read CSV file and make API request using data from each row in csv file.
• Upon execution of this code, I get my console logs as expected. It reads csv file content and returns array. I can iterate array with recursive callbacks. However, I am not getting any api responses nor I am getting any verification done. No errors even.
• Here is the console output: Finished in 0.001 seconds
  0 tests, 0 assertions, 0 failures, 0 skipped

File - short.csv:
Tag Title Status
1 api method 1 200
2 api method 2 200

File - test_spec.js:
var csv = require("fast-csv");
var fs = require('fs');
var frisby = require('frisby');
var stream = fs.createReadStream("short.csv");

var dataTable = new Array();
var i=0;
var api_key = "f4a0b09fb912ccde933ed42b2776ed8a";

csv(stream, {headers : ["Tag", "Title", "Status"]})
.on("data", function(data){
// console.log(data);
dataTable[i++] = data;
}) // End of csv.on
.on("end", function(){
console.log("done reading CSV into an array");
// for(var j=0; j < dataTable.length; j++)
// console.log("dataTable Title: " + dataTable[j].Title.toString() + " - Status: " + dataTable[j].Status.toString());

function recursive (dt,next){
   var curr = dt.pop();
   console.log("curr Tag: " + curr.Tag + " curr Title: " + curr.Title);
   if (curr != null){
       callApi(curr,function(){
            console.log("Recursive callApi for Next value in array");
            next(dt);
       })
   }
} // End of recursive function

recursive(dataTable, recursive);

function callApi(curr, callback){
    console.log("Current API "+ dataTable.length);
    console.log("Current Tag: " + curr.Tag + " - Title: " + curr.Title.toString() + " - Status: " + curr.Status.toString());
            frisby.create('Get myapi.getInfo')
            .get('http://localhost:8080/services/rest/?method=myapi.getInfo&api_key='+api_key+'&format=json&nojsoncallback=1')
            .inspectStatus()
            .expectStatus(200)
            .inspectHeaders()
            .expectHeaderContains('content-type','application/json')
            .after(callback()) // callback after api response
            .toss()
} // End of callApi

}) // End of csv.on
.parse();

[lyxsus]

+1

Need that one to test uncommon authorization calls sequence.

[namuol]

API Blueprint might be what you're looking for. It's mostly meant for documenting an API, but can also be used as a tool to describe API tests declaratively using a tool called dredd.

dredd is interesting but not really feature-complete, which is why I'm using frisby.

But thankfully, the APIary folks have a module for parsing the API Blueprint format already; there is a node binding for it called protagonist.

Using this, one should be able to translate the markdown-esque format of API Blueprints into a JSON format, and from there it should be pretty easy to call the necessary frisby commands based on this data.

Not a bad idea, really.

[vlucas]

This is now much more possible with v2 since you can just return the Frisby spec object from the test, and since it doesn't call any Jasmine describe/it functions directly anymore. Please update to v2 and try it out.