I am relatively new to Mocha, Chai, and Unit Testing. I'm currently attempting to create a basic test to verify the presence of Authorization headers in the request that passes through my middleware function. Despite trying various approaches such as using TypeError, throw(), error messages, and Error without success.... any assistance on this matter would be highly appreciated.
Middleware Function:
exports.verify = async (req, res, next) => {
try {
const headers = req.get('Authorization');
let decodedToken;
if (!headers) {
const error = new Error('Not Authenticated');
error.statusCode = 401;
throw error;
}
const token = headers.split(' ')[1];
try {
decodedToken = jwt.verify(token, SECRET);
} catch (err) {
err.statusCode = 500;
throw err;
}
if (!decodedToken) {
const error = new Error('Not Authenticated');
error.statusCode = 401;
throw error;
}
req.userUid = decodedToken.userUid;
const queryRef = await users.where('uid', '==', req.userUid).get();
if (queryRef.empty) {
const error = new Error('Not Authenticated');
error.statusCode = 401;
throw error;
}
next();
} catch (err) {
log.error(err);
next(err);
}
};
Test Script:
it('Should throw an error if no auth header provided.', function () {
const req = {
get: function () {
return null;
},
};
expect(function () {
verify(req, {}, () => {});
}).to.throw();
});
Just for reference - Error handling in app.ts:
app.use((err, req, res, next) => {
const status = err.statusCode || 500;
const message = err.message;
const data = err.data || [];
const userUid = req.userUid;
const stack = err.stack;
log.error(`STATUS: ${status} - MESSAGE: ${message} - STACK: ${stack}`);
res.status(status).json(message);
});