Getting async/await to work with superagent

Question

I'm missing something in my syntax here but not sure what:

I'm trying to nock this. But I get expected undefined to equal 'pXVCJ9.eyJpYXQ'

Test.js

describe('User API', () => {
    let email, password, requestBody

    beforeEach(() => {
      email = '[email protected]'
      password = 'password'
      requestBody = {
        session: '05833a20-4035',
        token: 'pXVCJ9.eyJpYXQ' }

      nock('https://someurl/')
        .get('users/sessions')
        .reply(200, requestBody)
    })

    it('returns user session for login', async () => {
        const data = await UserApi.login(email, password)

        expect(data.token).to.equal(requestBody.token)
        expect(data.session).to.equal(requestBody.session)
    })
})

UserApi.js

import request from 'superagent'

export const endpoint = 'https://someurl/'

const login = (email, password) => async () => {
  try {
    return await request
      .get(`${endpoint}/users/sessions`)
      .send({ email: email, password: password })
      .set('Accept', 'application/json')
  } catch (err) {
      //todo: implement this
  }
}

export default { login }

Answer 1

There's a few issues:

const login = (email, password) => async () => { ... }

This makes login a function that returns an async function. It should be an async function itself, so this:

const login = async (email, password) => { ... }

Next, in your nock setup, you're not prefixing the path with a /, so nock won't be able to match the request. Easy fix:

  nock('https://someurl')
    .get('/users/sessions')
    .reply(...);

Lastly, superagent will return the response data as response.body or, in your case, data.body. So the assertions should look like this:

expect(data.body.token).to.equal(requestBody.token)
expect(data.body.session).to.equal(requestBody.session)