mockingoose

Mockingoose

A Jest package for mocking mongoose models

Installation

$ npm i mockingoose -D

Usage

// user.js
import mongoose from 'mongoose';
const { Schema } = mongoose;

const schema = Schema({
    name: String,
    email: String,
    created: { type: Date, default: Date.now }
})

export default mongoose.model('User', schema);

mockingoose#ModelName#toReturn(obj, operation = 'find')

// __tests__/user.test.js
import mockingoose from 'mockingoose';
import model from './model';

describe('test mongoose User model', () => {
  it('should return the doc with findById', () => {
    const doc = {
        _id: '507f191e810c19729de860ea',
        name: 'name',
        email: '[e-mail]'
    };
    
    mockingoose.User.toReturn(doc); // operation `find` is default
    
    return model
    .findById({ _id: '507f191e810c19729de860ea'})
    .then(_doc => {
      expect(_doc).toEqual(doc);
    })
  })
  
  it('should return the doc with update', () => {
      const doc = {
          _id: '507f191e810c19729de860ea',
          name: 'name',
          email: '[e-mail]'
      };
      
      mockingoose.User.toReturn(doc, 'update');
      
      return model
      .update({ name: 'changed' }) // this won't really change anything
      .where({ _id: '507f191e810c19729de860ea'})
      .then(_doc => {
        expect(_doc).toEqual(doc);
      })
    })
})

Operation available:

[x] find - for all find queries [x] update - for update queries [x] save - for create, and save queries [] remove - for removing documents

Notes

if you are using Model.create and you don't pass a mock with mockingoose,
you'll receive the mongoose created doc (with ObjectId and transformations)

validations are working as expected.

you can simulate Error by passing an Error to mockingoose:

mockingoose.User.toReturn(new Error(), 'save');

return User
    .create({ email: '[e-mail]' })
    .catch(err => {
      expect(err).toBeInstanceOf(Error);
    })

no connection is made to the database (mongoose.connect is jest.fn())