Testing with real databases

[artem-mindrov]

I have a database access object of sorts, and I needed to write unit tests for it. Stubbing Ti.Database APIs with empty functions was not an option, since I had to make sure the DAO actually makes changes to the database. Since I've already used mockti for other unit tests, I started looking for a way to make it play with SQLite on Node. This was not an easy task (especially with me being absolutely new to Node and Titanium), and I ended up forking this repo and porting it to a newer version of Node and node-gyp (since I had to build it on Windows).
This is the code I'm using to mock Ti.Database:

class ResultSet
  constructor: (rows) -> 
    @rowIdx = 0
    @rows = []

    if rows.length
      @rowCount = rows.length
      @rows.push rows.item(i) for i in [0..rows.length-1]

  isValidRow: -> @rowIdx < @rowCount
  next: -> @rowIdx++
  fieldByName: (name) -> @rows[@rowIdx][name]
  field: (idx) -> require("lib/underscore").values(@rows[@rowIdx])[idx]
  close: -> 

class DB
  constructor: (@name) ->
    @lastInsertRowId = 0

  execute: (query, args...) ->
    sqlite = require "spec/lib/sqlite/sqlite"
    db = sqlite.openDatabaseSync @name
    console.log("running SQL #{query}")

    arg_array = []
    arg_array.push arg for arg in args
    result = db.query(query, arg_array)
    db.close()

    @resultSet = new ResultSet(result.rows)
    @lastInsertRowId = result.insertId if result.insertId
    @resultSet

  close: ->

Ti.Database = 
  open: (name) -> new DB(name)

Is there a chance something like this will be available? I could try to help if it makes any sense at all.

[rf]

I like this, and I'd be happy to accept a pull request to add this functionality. It is a Javascript project, however, so I'd expect new code to be in Javascript as well.

[artem-mindrov]

I'll be happy to make a PR, but I'm not sure how to handle this external dependency. Should I publish a NPM package out of my fork and then list it in mockti's dependencies?

[rf]

Alright, I see, so you've fixed node-sqlite, this is the dependency you're talking about?

Ideally, you should make a PR on the original repo and have him publish it. However, if he's no longer a willing maintainer (which looks likely considering the 5 month old pull request), you should ask him if you can be added as an owner of the package in npm so you can publish using the same name.