I'm using api-easy to implement end-to-end tests for a REST api. The library itself is quite nice, but debugging failing tests is harder than I had expected, but maybe I'm not using the right approach.
I had this problem: The test sent a "GET" to a server, which was currently unresponsive due to OutOfMemory. The request blocked forever, but I could not see it in the output, as only successful or failed tests are printed.
Is it possible dump all requests to stdout? A timeout option could also help to abort blocking tests (and make them fail).
My current approach is to patch the api-easy.js file to dump the requests to console:
console.log(outgoing); // this line is new
if (requestImpl)
requestImpl(outgoing, this.callback);
else
request(outgoing, this.callback);
The output contains the headers, the uri and the method:
Dummy "echo" REST service
{ headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
uri: 'http://localhost/resources/echo/abc',
method: 'get' }
When using the "echo" service A GET to /echo/abc
✓ should respond with 200
✓ should respond with {"echo":"abc"}
vows runner finish
✓ OK » 2 honored (0.024s)
It is not a very nice solution, as I am patching the contents of the node_modules directory.
Api-easy internally uses vows to control its data flow. I also run the tests with vows (either directy or with grunt-vows). I already enabled verbose mode (vows -v --spec) but it is not enough to analyze blocking tasks. I can only see successful or failing tests.
I extended api-easy to provide timeouts for request.
Here is my pull request: https://github.com/flatiron/api-easy/pull/59
Under the hood, easy-api uses the request library. My patch makes the timeout option of the request configurable from api-easy.