I'm having trouble trying to mock a module with a constructor
// code.js
const ServiceClass = require('service-library');
const serviceInstance = new ServiceClass('some param');
exports.myFunction = () => {
serviceInstance.doSomething();
};
And the test code:
// code.test.js
const ServiceClass = require('service-library');
jest.mock('service-library');
const {myFunction} = require('../path/to/my/code');
test('check that the service does something', () => {
// ????
});
It's not like the Documentation example Mocking Modules because you need to instantiate the module after importing it. And isn't either like Mocking a Function.
How could I mock this doSomething()
function while testing?
For reference, I'm trying to mock @google-cloud/*
packages here. And I have a few projects that could take advantage on this.
You need to mock the whole module first so that returns a jest mock. Then import into your test and set the mock to a function that returns an object holding the spy for doSomething
. For the test there is difference between of a class called with new
and a function called with new
.
import ServiceLibrary from 'service-library'
jest.mock( 'service-library', () => jest.fn())
const doSomething = jest.fn()
ServiceLibrary.mockImplementation(() => ({doSomething}))
Following @andreas-köberle solution I was able to mock @google-cloud/bigquery
like so:
// mock bigquery library
const BigQuery = require('@google-cloud/bigquery');
jest.mock('@google-cloud/bigquery', () => jest.fn());
const load = jest.fn(() => ({'@type': 'bigquery#load_job'}));
const table = jest.fn(() => ({load}));
const dataset = jest.fn(() => ({table}));
BigQuery.mockImplementation(() => ({dataset}));
// mock cloud storage library
const {Storage} = require('@google-cloud/storage');
jest.mock('@google-cloud/storage');
const file = jest.fn(name => ({'@type': 'storage#file', name}));
const bucket = jest.fn(() => ({file}));
Storage.mockImplementation(() => ({bucket}));
I'm leaving this here as a reference in case someone else googles something similar. But to make it clear, thats just a particularization for @andreas-köberle answer