meteor Acceptance Testing (with Nightwatch) Inspecting Meteor Objects on the Client
Example
Since Nightwatch has access to the browser console, it's possible to inspect client side objects using the .execute() API. In the following example, we're checking the Session object for a particular session variable. First, we begin by creating the file ./tests/nightwatch/api/meteor/checkSession, where we will keep the following command:
// syncrhonous version; only works for checking javascript objects on client
exports.command = function(sessionVarName, expectedValue) {
var client = this;
this
.execute(function(data){
return Session.get(data);
}, [sessionVarName], function(result){
client.assert.ok(result.value);
if(expectedValue){
client.assert.equal(result.value, expectedValue);
}
})
return this;
};
We can then chain it like so:
module.exports = {
"Check Client Session" : function (client) {
client
.url("http://localhost:3000")
.checkSession("currentUser", "Jane Doe")
.end();
}
};
