Mock a dependency's constructor Jest

Question

I'm a newbie to Jest. I've managed to mock my own stuff, but seem to be stuck mocking a module. Specifically constructors.

usage.js

const AWS = require("aws-sdk")
cw = new AWS.CloudWatch({apiVersion: "2010-08-01"})
...
function myMetrics(params) { 
  cw.putMetricData(params, function(err, data){})
}

I'd like to do something like this in the tests.

const AWS = jest.mock("aws-sdk")
class FakeMetrics {
  constructor() {}
  putMetricData(foo,callback) {
    callback(null, "yay!")
  }
}

AWS.CloudWatch = jest.fn( (props) => new FakeMetrics())

However when I come to use it in usage.js the cw is a mockConstructor not a FakeMetrics

I realise that my approach might be 'less than idiomatic' so I'd be greatful for any pointers.

This is a minimal example https://github.com/ollyjshaw/jest_constructor_so

npm install -g jest

jest

Answer 1

Above answer works. However, after some time working with jest I would just use the mockImplementation functionality which is useful for mocking constructors.

Below code could be an example:

import * as AWS from 'aws-sdk';

jest.mock('aws-sdk', ()=> {
    return {
        CloudWatch : jest.fn().mockImplementation(() => { return {} })
    }
});

test('AWS.CloudWatch is called', () => {
    new AWS.CloudWatch();
    expect(AWS.CloudWatch).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
});

Note that in the example the new CloudWatch() just returns an empty object.