Testing

Testing is supported out of the box in Gin. The main testing framework is Busted, which has an RSpec-like syntax. If you ever used Jasmine you'll feel right at home.

In addition, Gin provides test helpers for you to use.

Controllers

Controller Tests in Gin are actually integration tests. An instance of OpenResty nginx will be started and a real request will be issued to a test server.

The main Gin test helper you'll need to use is the function hit, that will perform the integration test for you.

Here's an example of a controller test (file located in ./spec/controllers/1/info_controller_spec.lua):

require 'spec.spec_helper'

describe("InfoController", function()
    describe("#whoami", function()
        it("responds with whoami name", function()
            local response = hit({
                method = 'GET',
                path = "/whoami"
            })

            assert.are.same(200, response.status)
            assert.are.same({ name = "gin" }, response.body)
        end)
    end)
end)

The request

The hit helper takes a list of options:

method (required): the HTTP method (GET, POST, HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, TRACE, CONNECT)
path (required): the relative path
body (optional): the request body (a Lua table). Defaults to nil.
headers (optional): the request headers (a Lua table). Defaults to {}.
api_version (optional): if you need to specify a minor version of the APIs, you can pass in the complete version value here (for instance, 1.0.2-rc1). Defaults to the controller test namespace.

The response

The hit helper returns a response object, that has the following attributes:

status: the response status (a numeric value)
headers: the response headers (a Lua table).
body: the response body (a Lua table).
body_raw: the unparsed response body (a string).

Models

There aren't specific Gin test helpers for models. Please refer to the tutorial for examples on how to test your models.

Test database fixtures