{"id":2547,"date":"2023-02-22T17:38:33","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nguenkam.com\/blog\/?p=2547"},"modified":"2023-02-22T17:38:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-22T16:38:33","slug":"http-request-testing-with-cypress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nguenkam.com\/blog\/index.php\/2023\/02\/22\/http-request-testing-with-cypress\/","title":{"rendered":"HTTP Request Testing with Cypress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To test HTTP requests in a Cypress test for an Angular application, we can use the<strong>\u00a0<code>cy.request()<\/code><\/strong>\u00a0command to make an HTTP request and then use assertions to verify the response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>describe('HTTP request test', () => {\r\n  it('should make an HTTP request and validate the response', () => {\r\n    \/\/ Make an HTTP request\r\n    cy.request('https:\/\/jsonplaceholder.typicode.com\/posts\/1').then((response) => {\r\n      \/\/ Validate the response\r\n      expect(response.status).to.eq(200);\r\n      expect(response.body.userId).to.eq(1);\r\n      expect(response.body.id).to.eq(1);\r\n      expect(response.body.title).to.eq(\"sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit\");\r\n      expect(response.body.body).to.eq(\"quia et suscipit\\nsuscipit...\");    \r\n    });\r\n  });\r\n});\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>In this example, we make an HTTP request to the JSONPlaceholder API and then use the\u00a0<code><strong>expect()<\/strong><\/code>\u00a0command to assert that the response has a status code of 200 and that the response body contains the expected data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can also use Cypress <strong>intercept<\/strong> feature to mock and control network request for testing purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s an example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>describe('HTTP request test with intercept', () => {\r\n  beforeEach(() => {\r\n    cy.intercept('GET', 'https:\/\/jsonplaceholder.typicode.com\/posts\/1', { \r\n      statusCode: 200,\r\n      body: {\r\n        userId: 1,\r\n        id: 1,\r\n        title: \"sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit\",\r\n        body: \"quia et suscipit\\nsuscipit...\"\r\n      }\r\n    });\r\n  });\r\n\r\n  it('should make an HTTP request and validate the response', () => {\r\n    \/\/ Make an HTTP request\r\n    cy.visit('\/my-page-with-http-request');\r\n\r\n    \/\/ Validate the response on the page\r\n    cy.get('.title').should('contain', \"sunt aut facere repellat provident occaecati excepturi optio reprehenderit\");\r\n  });\r\n});\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>In this example, we intercept the HTTP request and return a mock response with the expected data. 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