Start programatically about ldap-server-mock

[maxime-beguin]

Hi @dominic-p, hi @cope, hi @royetadmor,

This feature has been implemented on the develop branch and will be available in version 6.0.0 soon.

Thank you for your support.

[dominic-p]

I'm interested in using this for testing as well. I think it would really benefit from a Node.js API instead of having to deal with child_process.

I could submit a PR if that would be helpful. I'm thinking just add a main entry to package.json pointing to a new file that exports a "createSearver" function that you can call and pass in your config and db objects.

Thanks for the fantastic software, by the way.

[maxime-beguin]

Hi @cope,

Yes you can use NodeJs Child process to start the LDAP server mock from your tests.
The LDAP server mock will emit {status: 'started'} on parent process when it is ready.

Hope it helps.

[cope]

Awesome, will try it now!

[cope]

Hi @maxime-beguin, can we also set groups in database, in addition to users?

[cope]

I keep getting ENOENT with spawn 😞

Both npx ldap-server-mock --conf=... and ldap-server-mock --conf=... work from command line, but throw ENOENT with spawn 😞

[cope]

Hmmm, even npx -h throws ENOENT with spawn 😞

[cope]

The best I can get is mocha timeout and left over node processes I then have to kill 😞

Is there a working example with spawn, to look at?

[maxime-beguin]

Hi @cope!

Have you tried forking using directly node instead of npx?

[cope]

No, but to be fair, exporting a module like LdapMockServer to be used in testing suites with start() and stop() would be way better...

[maxime-beguin]

I agree. It would probably be more easy to use in some cases.
Maybe in a future version.

[royetadmor]

@cope I had the same issue (starting and closing the server for testing purposes) and I can suggest this workaround:
Start the server: npx ldap-server-mock --conf=./ldap_server_config.json --database=./ldap_user_data.json & (the & is for running the server in the background)
Close the server: pgrep -f ldap-server-mock | xargs kill -9
Hope this helps! 😄

[maxime-beguin]

HI @dominic-p,

Thank you for your support, sadly I currently don't have much time to work on this project.
I should be able to work on this during november.

You can of course submit a pull request but I won't be able to address it until november.
As you probably aslo have things to do on your side, I suggest you to wait until november.

Thanks again.

[dominic-p]

Thanks for the feedback, and I totally understand. If I have some time to work on a PR I will, otherwise I'll wait on this for the time being.

[dominic-p]

So cool! Thanks for that. :)