Chai - Testing for values in array of objects

Question

I am setting up my tests for the results to a REST endpoint that returns me an array of Mongo database objects.

[{_id: 5, title: \'Blah\', owner: \'Ted\', de         


        

Answer 1

Probably the best way now a days would be to use deep.members property

This checks for unordered complete equality. (for incomplete equality change members for includes)

i.e.

expect([ {a:1} ]).to.have.deep.members([ {a:1} ]); // passes
expect([ {a:1} ]).to.have.members([ {a:1} ]); // fails

Here is a great article on testing arrays and objects https://medium.com/building-ibotta/testing-arrays-and-objects-with-chai-js-4b372310fe6d

DISCLAIMER: this is to not only test the title property, but rather a whole array of objects