nodeunit-test-request

Helper to test HTTP requests using nodeunit

Why?

I found myself writing a lot of boilerplate when testing interactions with HTTP servers. nodeunit-test-request is that boilerplate extracted into a module so I can easily use it in my projects.

What?

nodeunit-test-request provides boilerplate to setup req.on('response') callback with the provided callback as well as closing the servers being tested when response 'end' event is triggered.

Usage

Single server being tested:

``javascript
var http = require('http');
var testRequest = require('nodeunit-test-request');

var tests = module.exports = {};

tests["single server usage"] = function(test)
{
var server = http.createServer(SERVER_OPTIONS);
/ server setup and .listen() code /
var req = http.request(REQUEST_OPTIONS);
testRequest(test, server, req, function(res)
{
test.equal(res.statusCode, 200, 'expected 200 status code');
});
req.end();
}
`

Multiple servers being tested:

`javascript
var http = require('http');
var testRequest = require('nodeunit-test-request');

var tests = module.exports = {};

tests["multiple server usage"] = function(test)
{
var proxy = http.createServer(PROXY_OPTIONS);
var server = http.createServer(SERVER_OPTIONS);
/ proxy and server setup and .listen() code /
var req = http.request(REQUEST_OPTIONS);
testRequest(test, [server, proxy], req, function(res)
{
test.equal(res.statusCode, 200, 'expected 200 status code');
});
req.end();
}
``