Plug.Test

Conveniences for testing plugs.

This module can be used in your test cases, like this:

use ExUnit.Case, async: true
use Plug.Test

Using this module will:

import all the functions from this module
import all the functions from the Plug.Conn module

Summary

Functions

conn(method, path, params_or_body \\ nil): Creates a test connection
delete_req_cookie(conn, key): Deletes a request cookie
init_test_session(conn, session): Initializes the session with the given contents
put_req_cookie(conn, key, value): Puts a request cookie
recycle_cookies(new_conn, old_conn): Moves cookies from a connection into a new connection for subsequent requests
sent_resp(conn): Returns the sent response

Functions

conn(method, path, params_or_body \\ nil)

conn(String.Chars.t, binary, params) :: Plug.Conn.t

Creates a test connection.

The request method and path are required arguments. method may be any value that implements to_string/1 and it will properly converted and normalized (e.g., :get or "post").

The params_or_body field must be one of:

nil - meaning there is no body;
a binary - containing a request body. For such cases, :headers must be given as option with a content-type;
a map or list - containing the parameters which will automatically set the content-type to multipart. The map or list may contain other lists or maps and all entries will be normalized to string keys;

Examples

conn(:get, "/foo", "bar=10")
conn(:post, "/")
conn("patch", "/", "") |> put_req_header("content-type", "application/json")

delete_req_cookie(conn, key)

delete_req_cookie(Plug.Conn.t, binary) :: Plug.Conn.t

Deletes a request cookie.

init_test_session(conn, session)

init_test_session(Plug.Conn.t, %{optional(String.t | atom) => any}) :: Plug.Conn.t

Initializes the session with the given contents.

If the session has already been initialized, the new contents will be merged with the previous ones.

put_req_cookie(conn, key, value)

put_req_cookie(Plug.Conn.t, binary, binary) :: Plug.Conn.t

Puts a request cookie.

recycle_cookies(new_conn, old_conn)

recycle_cookies(Plug.Conn.t, Plug.Conn.t) :: Plug.Conn.t

Moves cookies from a connection into a new connection for subsequent requests.

This function copies the cookie information in old_conn into new_conn, emulating multiple requests done by clients where cookies are always passed forward, and returns the new version of new_conn.

sent_resp(conn)

Returns the sent response.

This function is useful when the code being invoked crashes and there is a need to verify a particular response was sent even with the crash. It returns a tuple with {status, headers, body}.