loopback-bakery

This is a toolkit to easily create test data for loopback based applications. It is heavily inspired by Django's Model Mommy.

Installation

npm install --save loopback-bakery

Basic Usage

Import the module and create a recipe for a loopback PersistedModel:

var app = require('../server'); //path to your loopback server script
var bakery = require('loopback-bakery');

//...

var userRecipe = bakery.Recipe(app.models.User);

userRecipe({
  email: '[email protected]',
  password: 'xxx'
}).then((user) => {
  console.log(user);
});

Or use await:

let newUser = await userRecipe({email: '[email protected]', password: 'xxx'});

You can pass default values when creating the recipe:

var userRecipe = bakery.Recipe(app.models.User, {password: 'xxx'});
var user = await userRecipe({email: '[email protected]'});

You can create multiple samples with quantity():

var userList = await recipe.quantity(3)({name: 'Steven', email: '[email protected]'});
console.log(userList.length); //3

Dynamic Data

Instead of fixed attributes you can use functions that are resolved to attribute values before the new record is created:

var userRecipe = bakery.Recipe(app.models.User, {
  password: 'xxx',
  email: () => {
    return '[email protected]';
  }
});

userRecipe().then((user) => {
  console.log(user);
});

This is handy if you use fakerjs to generate your test samples:

var faker = require('faker/locale/de');

//...

var userRecipe = bakery.Recipe(app.models.User, {
  password: 'xxx',
  email: faker.internet.email
});

userRecipe().then((user) => {
  console.log(user);
});

Support for Promises is also available. Instead of returning an attribute your function can return a Promise:

var userRecipe = bakery.Recipe(app.models.User, {
  password: 'xxx',
  email: () => {
    return new Promise((resolve) => {
      process.nextTick(() => {
        resolve('user@loopback');
      });
    });
  }
});

userRecipe().then((user) => {
  console.log(user);
});

Users and Roles

The bakery allows to easily create users and roles. Use the built-in UserRecipe:

var app = require('../server'); //path to your loopback server script
var bakery = require('loopback-bakery');

//...

var adminUserRecipe = bakery.UserRecipe(app.models.User).withRole('admin', app.models.Role);
let adminUser = await adminUserRecipe({email: '[email protected]', password: 'admin'});  

The recipe will create a new role in case the required user role does not exist.

Utils

Use cycle() to rotate a list of sample values:

let pets = bakery.cycle(['dog', 'cat', 'rabbit']);
console.log(pets()) //dog
console.log(pets()) //cat
console.log(pets()) //rabbit
console.log(pets()) //dog
//...

Logging

var bakery = require('loopback-bakery');
var logger = require('debug')('samples');

bakery.withLogging(logger);
var todoRecipe = bakery.Recipe(app.models.TODO);

// Logs: 'Created TODO with attributes {"title":"Write Email to John","text":"Some more infos about the TODO..."}'
todoRecipe({
  title: 'Write Email to John',
  text: 'Some more infos about the TODO...'
});