How to get the response from nock

Question

I've been writing some unit tests and I noticed that I can't seem to find a good way to test asynchronous functions. So I found nock. It seems cool, only if it worked. I'm clearly missing something...

import nock from 'nock';
import request from 'request';

const profile = {
    name: 'John',
    age: 25
};

const scope = nock('https://mydomainname.local')
    .post('/api/send-profile', profile)
    .reply(200, {status:200});

request('https://mydomainname.local/api/send-profile').on('response', function(request) {
    console.log(typeof request.statusCode); // this never hits
    expect(request.statusCode).to.equal.(200);
});

request never happens, so how can I test if nock actually returned {status:200}? I've also tried fetch and regular http calls. Which makes me think it's something with my nock code? Thank you for your help in advance!

Answer 1

Nock does not return {status:200} because it's intercepting POST request, but the request statement is sending GET request.

It seems you want to intercept POST request with specified profile? The code would be:

var nock = require('nock');
var request = require('request');

const profile = {
  name: 'John',
  age: 25
};

const scope = nock('https://mydomainname.local')
  .post('/api/send-profile', profile)
  .reply(200, {status:200});

request.post('https://mydomainname.local/api/send-profile', {json: {name: 'John', age: 25}}).on('response', function(request) {
  console.log(request.statusCode); // 200
});