Aurelia Unit Testing --> Expect Error

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1

Hi,

currently I’m trying to create a unit test case that expects a thrown exception:

it('should throw an error because of invalid base url', () => {
        let errorApiConfiguration = new TestApiConfigurationDev();
        errorApiConfiguration.baseRoute = 'localhost:9000';
        expect(this.apiService.setApiConfigurations([errorApiConfiguration])).toThrowError(Error);
  });

the respective setApiConfigurations method throws the exception:

public setApiConfigurations(object: Object[]) {
     throw new Error('test');
}

With this setup the test run fail:

ApiService › should throw an error because of invalid base url

    test

      207 |    public setApiConfigurations(object: Object[]) {
    > 208 |         throw new Error('test'); 
      209 |     }

Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong here respectively how to get that test working?

2

You have to change the assertion to execute an function which in turn throws.

expect(() => this.apiService.setApiConfigurations([errorApiConfiguration])).toThrowError(Error);
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