Publication Collector

This package makes testing publications in Meteor easier and nicer.

Instead of resorting to exporting or exposing your publication functions for doing testing, this package lets you "subscribe" to a given publication and assert its returned results.

• Publication Collector
  • Installation
  • Usage
    • PublicationCollector
    • PublicationCollector.collect
  • Development
    • Tests
  • History
  • Releases
  • To do

Installation

meteor add johanbrook:publication-collector

Usage

This package is server-only and can't be imported on the client.

// server/myPublication.test.js

import { PublicationCollector } from "meteor/johanbrook:publication-collector";

describe("myPublication", function () {
  it("should publish 10 documents", function (done) {
    const collector = new PublicationCollector({ userId: Random.id() });

    collector.collect(
      "myPublication",
      firstPublicationArg,
      secondPublicationArg,
      (collections) => {
        assert.equal(collections.myCollection.length, 10);
        done();
      }
    );
  });
});

PublicationCollector

const collector = new PublicationCollector(opts);

opts may have the following attributes:

• userId: Add a this.userId to the publication's context
• delayInMs: By default, collect callbacks are called when the publication is ready. If you use this option, the callbacks will be called delayInMs milliseconds after the publication is ready.

An instance of PublicationCollector also is an EventEmitter, and emits a ready event when the publication is marked as ready.

PublicationCollector.collect -> Promise

collector.collect(publicationName, [publicationArgs..., callback]);

• publicationName (String): the name of the publication (String)
• publicationArgs: zero or more arguments to the publication
• callback (Function): Optional. The function to be called when the publication is ready. Will be called with a collections object.

Returns a Promise which resolves to a collections object.

The collections value is an object containing key:value pairs where the key is the name of a collection that the publication published and the value is an array of the documents that were published in that collection.

collector.collect(
  "myPublication",
  firstPublicationArg,
  secondPublicationArg,
  (collections) => {
    assert.equal(collections.myCollection.length, 10);
  }
);

or use Promises:

const collector = new PublicationCollector();

collector.collect('myPublication')
  .then(collections => {
    // assertions..
  })
  .catch(ex => /* error handling */);

// Or async/await style
const collections = await collector.collect('myPublication');
// assertions..

Development

npm install

Follow .eslintrc

Tests

Run tests once with

npm test

Run tests in watch mode (in console) with

npm run test:dev

History

This project was originally a part of MDG's Todos example Meteor app, but later extracted as a separate test package.

Based on https://github.com/stubailo/meteor-rest/blob/devel/packages/rest/http-subscription.js.

Releases

• 1.2.0
  • Add support for async publication
• 1.1.0
  • Pin versions to Meteor@>=1.3.
  • Throw error when there's no publication for the provided name.
  • Upgrade dependencies.  - Add support for Promises in the .collect() method. Note: This breaks tests that rely on errors being thrown in the collect() method (see #36).
• 1.0.10 - Always stop the publication when an error is thrown in the PublicationCollector callback. Thanks @SimonSimCity !
• 1.0.9 - Fix bug in 1.0.8 regarding empty array return. Thanks @nkahnfr !
• 1.0.8 - Fix support for publications returning nothing (an empty array). Thanks @ziedmahdi !
• 1.0.7 - Fix compatibility with peerlibrary:reactive-publish's _isDeactivated function in publications (#20, thanks @jaskinn!).
• 1.0.6 - Fix an issue with "ready" event being emitted more than once (#16). Thanks @nkahnfr!
• 1.0.5 - Fix an issue when publish handlers are using default arguments (#15). Thanks @dmihal!
• 1.0.4 - Don't try to operate on a document that doesn't exist in changed callback. Thanks @zenweasel, from #13!
• 1.0.3 - Fix compatibility with peerlibrary:reactive-publish package (bug #3), fixed in #10. Thanks @hexsprite!
• 1.0.2 - Fix bug where ready() wasn't called if there were no results from a publication handler.
• 1.0.1
  • Fixes inconsistent results from publication collector (thanks @PhilippSpo in #2).
  • Return an empty array if there are no returned documents from a publication (#5).
  • Accept Mongo.ObjectID as _id attribute (#8).
• 1.0.0 - First public release.

To do

• Make tests pass.
• More docs.
• Support Promises.

Credits

This package has originally been ideated and created by Johan Brook.