In my last post, I spent some hours to create a stub to skip passport.authenticate method for REST API testing. So, I decided to write a separate post on the same. Before we get started, let’s take a look on how auth middleware is implemented:

const router = express.Router();
router.route('/')
.get(passportManager.authenticate, projectController.get)
.post(passportManager.authenticate, projectController.add);

And passportManager has authenticate method which calls passport authenticate method as follows:

class passportManager {
...
 authenticate(req, res, next){
        passport.authenticate('jwt', { session: false}, (err, user, info) => {
          if (err) { return next(err); }
          if (!user) {
              if (info.name === "TokenExpiredError") {
                  return res.status(401).json({ message: "Your token has expired." });
              } else {
                  return res.status(401).json({ message: info.message });
              }
          }
          req.user = user;
          return next();
        })(req, res, next);
      };

}
export default new passportManager();

If you want to see the full implementation, see below post:

Token Based Authentication with Node.js, Express, Mongoose and Passport

Passport Stub

To stub passport authentication:

sinon.stub(passport,"authenticate").callsFake((strategy, options, callback) => {            
               callback(null, { "username": "test@techbrij.com"}, null);             
               return (req,res,next)=>{};
            });

Now in test methods, no need to pass token.

it("should save the project", () => {       
            return request.post(apiBase + "/project")             
                .send(newProject)
                .expect(200)
                .expect(res => {                   
                    res.body.success.should.be.true;
                    res.body.msg.should.equal("New project is created successfully.");
                })
    });

I tried different other ways to stub it but got different errors like below:

UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Can’t set headers after they are sent.

The tricky part is what to return in stub method i.e. return (req,res,next)=>{};

Conclusion

In this post, we saw how to use Sinon stub to skip Passport authenticate. If you want to see full test methods implementation, see below:

REST API Testing using Mocha, Sinon and Chai

I hope it saves your time. Enjoy Node.js!