Read response output buffer/stream with supertest/superagent on node.js server

Question

I am trying to write a test that checks whether an API route outputs a ZIP file with the correct contents.

I am using mocha and supertest for testing, and I would like t

Answer 1

I think you'll want to create your own parser for application/zip and use that to get at the actual response data; the JSON parser is here, for example. Once you've got that you can use it by passing it to request.parse; so your test would become:

request(app)
  .get( "/api/v1/orders/download?id[]=1&id=2" )
  .set( "Authorization", authData )
  .expect( 200 )
  .expect( 'Content-Type', /application\/zip/ )
  .parse( function (res, fn) {
    res.data = '';
    res.on( 'data', function (chunk) { res.data += chunk; } );
    res.on( 'end', function () {
      try {
        fn( null, new AdmZip( res.data ) );
      } catch ( err ) {
        fn( err );
      }
    });
  })
  .end( function (err, res) {
    if (err) return done( err );

    console.log( 'body:', res.body )

    // Write the temp HTML file to filesystem using utf-8 encoding
    var zipEntries = res.body.getEntries();

    console.log( 'zipentries:', zipEntries );

    zipEntries.forEach(function(zipEntry) {
      console.log(zipEntry.toString()); // outputs zip entries information
    });

    done();
  });

To find the answer to this I mostly relied on inspecting the superagent test suite. :)