pact-js-dsl v0.0.4

Pact Consumer Javascript DSL

This DSL is in very early stages of development, please bear with us as we give it some polish. Please raise any problems you have in the github issues. Check out the Development Roadmap to see where we are headed.

This codebase provides a Javascript DSL for creating pacts. If you are new to Pact, please read the Pact README first.

This DSL relies on the Ruby pact-mock_service gem to provide the mock service for the Javascript tests. If you do not want to use Ruby in your project, please read about using a standalone Pact mock service here.

Getting Help

• Please see the wiki for documentation (eg. using CORS, using the DSL on Windows).
• Google users group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/pact-support
• Twitter: @pact_up

Getting Started (with Karma, Jasmine and the pact-mock_service gem)

1. Install the pact-mock_service ruby gem

   The easiest way is to add gem 'pact-mock_service', '~> 0.2.3.pre.rc1' to your Gemfile and run bundle install

2. Install and configure Karma with Jasmine

3. Create a package.json if you don't have one already - use npm init if you don't

4. Install Karma using their installation instructions

   This basically consists of running,

   • npm install karma --save-dev
   • npm install karma-jasmine karma-chrome-launcher --save-dev
   • npm install -g karma-cli

5. Initialise and configure Karma

   Run karma init. Answer jasmine for testing framework and no for use require.js.

6. Add pact-consumer-js-dsl to your project by running npm install DiUS/pact-consumer-js-dsl#X.Y.Z --save-dev, where X.Y.Z is the latest stable version, according to the releases page.

7. Tell Karma about pact-consumer-js-dsl.js in karma.conf.js. In the files: [] section add a new entry for node_modules/pact-consumer-js-dsl/dist/pact-consumer-js-dsl.js.

8. Allow tests to load resources from pact mock server. One way to do this is in the karma.conf.js, change browsers: ['Chrome'], or browsers: ['PhantomJS'], to,

     ````
     browsers: ['Chrome_without_security'],
     customLaunchers: {
        Chrome_without_security: {
            base: 'Chrome',
            flags: ['--disable-web-security']
        }
     }
     
     or:
     
     browsers: ['PhantomJS_without_security'],
     customLaunchers: {
        PhantomJS_without_security: {
          base: 'PhantomJS',
          flags: ['--web-security=false']
        }
     }
     ````         

   Note that running your tests across multiple browsers with one pact mock server will probably conflict with each other. You will need to either run them sequentially or start multiple pact mock servers. To run them sequentially make multiple calls to karma from the command line with the different browsers passed with the --browser option.

9. Write a Jasmine unit test similar to the following,

   describe("Client", function(done) {
   
       var client, helloProvider;
   
       beforeEach(function() {
   
         client = new ProviderClient('http://localhost:1234');
         helloProvider = MockService.create(
           consumer: 'Hello Consumer',
           provider: 'Hello Provider',
           port: 1234,
           pactDir: '.');
       });
   
       it("should say hello", function() {
   
           helloProvider
             .uponReceiving("a request for hello")
             .withRequest("get", "/sayHello")
             .willRespondWith(200, {
               "Content-Type": "application/json"
             }, {
               reply: "Hello"
             });
   
             helloProvider.run(function(runComplete) {
               expect(client.sayHello()).toEqual("Hello");
               runComplete(done);
             });
       });
    });

   See the spec in the example directory for examples of asynchronous callbacks, how to expect error responses, and how to use query params.

   Make sure the source and test files are included by Karma in the karma.conf.js in the files array.

10. Let's run that bad boy!

    • start the pact mock server with bundle exec pact-mock-service -p 1234 -l /tmp/pact.logs
    • run karma start (in another terminal window)
    • inspect the pact file that has been written to "hello_consumer-hello_provider.json"

Example

Have a look at the example folder. Ensure you have Google Chrome installed.

$ cd example
$ npm install
$ script/test.sh

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md