Test an onlyOwner function in Javascript

Question

I have this situation in my smart contract:

address[] public allowedUsers;

function allowUser(address _newUser) public onlyOwner {
   allowedUser.push(_newUser);
}

I'm using truffle and his test suite and then I wrote this case, that fails maybe because I'm not using the only owner method in the right way:

const MyContract = artifacts.require("../contracts/MyContract.sol");

contract("MyContract", accounts => {
    it("should deploy the contract and allow the user", async () => {
        const contract = await MyContract.deployed();

        const account = accounts[0];
        const owner = await contract.owner.call()

        await contract.allowUser(account).call({ from: owner });

        const allowedUser = contract.allowedUser.call(0);

        assert.equal(whitelistedUser, account, 'new user is not allowed');
    })
});

Can someone help me?

Answer 1

Assuming that you properly set the owner in the contract, write a getter for the owner in the contract:

function getContractOwner() public view returns (address)
  {
    return owner;
  }

in test.js

contract("MyContract", accounts => {
     let _contract = null
     let currentOwner=null

    before(async () => {
      _contract = await MyContract.deployed();
      currentOwner = await _contract.getContractOwner()          
    })    
    it("should deploy the contract and allow the user", async () => {
        const account = accounts[0];
        await contract.allowUser(account, {from: currentOwner});
        // I assume this is retrieving data from a mapping
        const allowedUser = _contract.allowedUser.call(0);
        assert.equal(whitelistedUser, account, 'new user is not allowed');
    })
});