how to query (findAll) against multiple rows? about sequelize-mock

[LoveAndCoding]

$queueResult will certainly be the way to do that going forward, however it is not in version 0.7.0. It is the major item planned for v0.8.0, but that is not quite ready yet. I have a few more issues I need to clear up before it can be released to NPM (don't want to break everyone's tests). The reason it is in the docs is that I unfortunately had an issue (now fixed) that the documentation badge in NPM was pointing to latest instead of stable, so it is showing documentation in progress. When the next version is pushed to NPM, this issue should go away.

As for the how to use it against multiple rows, the way we use it (aka the current ugly way we're fixing) is to override function calls in our tests.

var findAll;
beforeEach(function () {
    findAll = UserMock.findAll;
});
afterEach(function () {
    UserMock.findAll = findAll;
});

// ...
UserMock.findAll = function () {
    return bluebird.resolve([
        UserMock.build(), // result 1
        UserMock.build(), // result 2
        UserMock.build(), // result 3
    ]);
};

Because this is using overrides to do it, the good thing is that it will be forward-compatible. The bad thing is it is very clunky.

Obviously this is less than ideal and what we aim to fix with v0.8.0. Hopefully I'll be getting time this week to wrap that up and publish it to NPM, but unfortunately I'm not sure I can promise that.

Hope that helps,
Andrew

[btmurrell]

thanks for that @ktsashes. because i already have my set of data in a json resource file, in place of your repeated build lines, i started by iterating my array and calling build, then i saw you have a bulkCreate() fake, which does its own iteration. so for benefit others reading this thread, here's a little shorthand that works for me:

var findAll;
beforeEach(function () {
    findAll = UserMock.findAll;
});
afterEach(function () {
    UserMock.findAll = findAll;
});

//... your test iteration
var smartUsers = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync('../resources/users.json'));
UserMock.bulkCreate(smartUsers)
.then(function(userInstances) {
    UserMock.findAll = function () {
        return bluebird.resolve(userInstances);
    };
})
.then(function doMyTest() {
    // ... assert
    // ... assert
    done();
});

[LoveAndCoding]

Just wanted to let you know that v0.8.0 is out with a result queuing mechanism which hopefully should address this issue. You can check out the documentation for the feature if you like under Mock Queries in our documentation.