supertest-session

Supertest sessions

Session wrapper around supertest.

References:

• https://gist.github.com/joaoneto/5152248
• https://github.com/visionmedia/supertest/issues/46
• https://github.com/visionmedia/supertest/issues/26

Test

$ npm test

Usage

Require supertest-session and pass in the test application:

var Session = require('supertest-session')({
  app: require('../../path/to/app')
});

Set up a session:

before(function () {
  this.sess = new Session();
});

after(function () {
  this.sess.destroy();
});

And set some expectations:

it('should fail accessing a restricted page', function (done) {
  this.sess.get('/restricted')
    .expect(401)
    .end(done)
});

it('should sign in', function (done) {
  this.sess.post('/signin')
    .send({ username: 'foo', password: 'password' })
    .expect(200)
    .end(done);
});

it('should get a restricted page', function (done) {
  this.sess.get('/restricted')
    .expect(200)
    .end(done)
});

Accessing session data

The cookies attached to the session may be retrieved from session.cookies at any time, for instance to inspect the contents of the current session in an external store.

it('should set session details correctly', function (done) {
  var sessionCookie = _.find(sess.cookies, function (cookie) {
    return _.has(cookie, 'connect.sid');
  });

  memcached.get(sessionCookie['connect.sid'], function (err, session) {
    session.user.name.should.eq('Foobar');
    done();
  });
});

License

MIT