Suppose I have a simple file exporting a default function:
// UniqueIdGenerator.js
const uniqueIdGenerator = () => Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 8);
export default uniqueIdGenerator;
Which I would use like this:
import uniqueIdGenerator from './UniqueIdGenerator';
// ...
uniqueIdGenerator();
I want to assert in my test that this method was called while keeping the original functionality. I'd do that with jest.spyOn
however, it requires an object as well as a function name as parameters. How can you do this in a clean way? There's a similar GitHub issue for jasmine
for anyone interested.
I ended up ditching the default export:
// UniqueIdGenerator.js
export const uniqueIdGenerator = () => Math.random().toString(36).substring(2, 8);
And then I could use and spy it like this:
import * as UniqueIdGenerator from './UniqueIdGenerator';
// ...
const spy = jest.spyOn(UniqueIdGenerator, 'uniqueIdGenerator');
Some recommend wrapping them in a const object, and exporting that. I suppose you can also use a class for wrapping.
However, if you can't modify the class there's still a (not-so-nice) solution:
import * as UniqueIdGenerator from './UniqueIdGenerator';
// ...
const spy = jest.spyOn(UniqueIdGenerator, 'default');