Problem: ignore some part of the .snap file test results
the question here: there are some components in my test that have a random values and i don't really care about testing them. is there any way to ignore part of my X.snap file? so when i run tests in the future it won't give me test fail results.
Actually, you need to mock the moving parts.
As stated in jest docs:
Your tests should be deterministic. That is, running the same tests multiple times on a component that has not changed should produce the same results every time. You're responsible for making sure your generated snapshots do not include platform specific or other non-deterministic data.
If it's something related to time, you could use
Date.now = jest.fn(() => 1482363367071);
Now you can also use property matcher for these cases.
By example to be able to use snapshot with these object :
const obj = {
id: dynamic(),
foo: 'bar',
other: 'value',
val: 1,
};
You can use :
expect(obj).toMatchSnapshot({
id: expect.any(String),
});
Jest will just check that id is a String and will process the other fields in the snapshot as usual.
I know it's quite old question but I know one more solution. You can modify property you want to ignore, so it will be always constant instead of random / dynamic. This is best for cases when you are using third party code and thus may not be able to control the non deterministic property generation
Example:
import React from 'react';
import Enzyme, { shallow } from 'enzyme';
import Adapter from 'enzyme-adapter-react-16';
import Card from './Card';
import toJSON from 'enzyme-to-json';
Enzyme.configure({ adapter: new Adapter() });
describe('<Card />', () => {
it('renders <Card /> component', () => {
const card = shallow(
<Card
baseChance={1}
name={`test name`}
description={`long description`}
imageURL={'https://d2ph5fj80uercy.cloudfront.net/03/cat1425.jpg'}
id={0}
canBeIgnored={false}
isPassive={false}
/>
);
const snapshot = toJSON(card);
// for some reason snapshot.node.props.style.backgroundColor = "#cfc5f6"
// does not work, seems the prop is being set later
Object.defineProperty(snapshot.node.props.style, 'backgroundColor', { value: "#cfc5f6", writable: false });
// second expect statement is enaugh but this is the prop we care about:
expect(snapshot.node.props.style.backgroundColor).toBe("#cfc5f6");
expect(snapshot).toMatchSnapshot();
});
});