axios-mock-adapter

What is axios-mock-adapter?

axios-mock-adapter is a package for mocking Axios requests for testing purposes. It allows developers to simulate server responses, test error handling, and ensure that the front-end behaves as expected without the need for an actual backend during the development and testing phases.

What are axios-mock-adapter's main functionalities?

Mocking GET requests

This feature allows you to mock a GET request to a specific URL and provide a fake response that the axios call will receive.

const MockAdapter = require('axios-mock-adapter');
const axios = require('axios');

const mock = new MockAdapter(axios);

mock.onGet('/users').reply(200, [
  { id: 1, name: 'John Smith' }
]);

Mocking POST requests

This feature allows you to mock a POST request to a specific URL and provide a fake response, which can be used to simulate form submissions or other POST operations.

const MockAdapter = require('axios-mock-adapter');
const axios = require('axios');

const mock = new MockAdapter(axios);

mock.onPost('/login').reply(200, {
  user: 'admin',
  token: 'fake-token'
});

Simulating network errors

This feature allows you to simulate network errors to test how your application handles them.

const MockAdapter = require('axios-mock-adapter');
const axios = require('axios');

const mock = new MockAdapter(axios);

mock.onGet('/unreachable').networkError();

Delaying responses

This feature allows you to delay the mock response, which can be useful for testing loading states and asynchronous operations.

const MockAdapter = require('axios-mock-adapter');
const axios = require('axios');

const mock = new MockAdapter(axios);

mock.onGet('/users').reply(function() {
  return new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
    setTimeout(function() {
      resolve([200, [{ id: 1, name: 'John Smith' }]]);
    }, 1000);
  });
});

Specifying request parameters

This feature allows you to specify request parameters for the mock, so you can test how your application handles different query strings or request configurations.

const MockAdapter = require('axios-mock-adapter');
const axios = require('axios');

const mock = new MockAdapter(axios);

mock.onGet('/users', { params: { search: 'John' } }).reply(200, [
  { id: 1, name: 'John Smith' }
]);

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README

axios-mock-adapter

Axios adapter that allows to easily mock requests

Installation

Using npm:

$ npm install axios-mock-adapter --save-dev

It's also available as a UMD build:

• https://npmcdn.com/axios-mock-adapter/dist/axios-mock-adapter.js
• https://npmcdn.com/axios-mock-adapter/dist/axios-mock-adapter.min.js

axios-mock-adapter works on Node as well as in a browser, it works with axios v0.9.0 and above.

Example

Mocking a GET request

var axios = require('axios');
var MockAdapter = require('axios-mock-adapter');

// This sets the mock adapter on the default instance
var mock = new MockAdapter(axios);

// Mock any GET request to /users
// arguments for reply are (status, data, headers)
mock.onGet('/users').reply(200, {
  users: [
    { id: 1, name: 'John Smith' }
  ]
});

axios.get('/users')
  .then(function(response) {
    console.log(response.data);
  });

// If a request is made for a URL that is not handled in the mock adapter,
// the promise will reject with a response that has status 404.

To add a delay to responses, specify a delay ammount (in milliseconds) when instantiating the adapter

// All requests using this instance will have a 2 seconds delay:
var mock = new MockAdapter(axiosInstance, { delayResponse: 2000 });

You can restore the original adapter (which will remove the mocking behavior)

mock.restore();

You can also reset the registered mock handlers with reset

mock.reset();

reset is different from restore in that restore removes the mocking from the axios instance completely, whereas reset only removes all mock handlers that were added with onGet, onPost, etc. but leaves the mocking in place.

Passing a function to reply

mock.onGet('/users').reply(function(config) {
  // `config` is the axios config and contains things like the url

  // return an array in the form of [status, data, headers]
  return [200, {
    users: [
      { id: 1, name: 'John Smith' }
    ]
  }];
});

Using a regex

mock.onGet(/\/users\/\d+/).reply(function(config) {
  // the actual id can be grabbed from config.url

  return [200, {}];
});

Chaining is also supported

mock
  .onGet('/users').reply(200, users)
  .onGet('/posts').reply(200, posts);

.replyOnce() can be used to let the mock only reply once

mock
  .onGet('/users').replyOnce(200, users) // After the first request to /users, this handler is removed
  .onGet('/users').replyOnce(500);       // The second request to /users will have status code 500
                                         // Any following request would return a 404 since there are
                                         // no matching handlers

Mocking any request to a given url

// mocks GET, POST, ... requests to /foo
mock.onAny('/foo').reply(200);

.onAny can be useful when you want to test for a specific order of requests

// Expected order of requests:
const responses = [
  ['GET',  '/foo', 200, { foo: 'bar' }],
  ['POST', '/bar', 200],
  ['PUT',  '/baz', 200]
];

mock.onAny(/.*/).reply(config => {
  const [method, url, ...response] = responses.shift();
  if (config.url === url && config.method.toUpperCase() === method) return response;
  // Unexpected request, error out
  return [500, {}];
});

Mocking a request with a specific request body/data

// usable with reply, replyOnce, onAny, onPatch, onPost, onPut ...
mock.onPut('/withBody', { request: 'body' }).reply(200);