Only MockFirebase
methods are included here. For details on normal Firebase API methods, consult the Firebase Web API documentation.
Core methods of MockFirebase
references for manipulating data and asynchronous behavior.
Flushes the queue of deferred data and authentication operations. If a delay
is passed, the flush operation will be triggered after the specified number of milliseconds.
In MockFirebase, data operations can be executed synchronously. When calling any Firebase API method that reads or writes data (e.g. set(data)
or on('value')
), MockFirebase will queue the operation. You can call multiple data methods in a row before flushing. MockFirebase will execute them in the order they were called when flush
is called. If you trigger an operation inside of another (e.g. writing data somewhere when you detect a data change using on
), all changes will be performed during the same flush
.
flush
will throw an exception if the queue of deferred operations is empty.
Example:
ref.set({
foo: 'bar'
});
console.assert(ref.getData() === null, 'ref does not have data');
ref.flush();
console.assert(ref.getData().foo === 'bar', 'ref has data');
Configures the Firebase reference to automatically flush data and authentication operations when run. If no arguments or true
are passed, the operations will be flushed immediately (synchronously). If a delay
is provided, the operations will be flushed after the specified number of milliseconds. If false
is provided, autoFlush
will be disabled.
When method
is next invoked, trigger the onComplete
callback with the specified err
. This is useful for simulating validation, authorization, or any other errors. The callback will be triggered with the next flush
.
err
must be a proper Error
object and not a string or any other primitive.
Example:
var error = new Error('Oh no!');
ref.failNext('set', error);
var err;
ref.set('data', function onComplete (_err_) {
err = _err_;
});
console.assert(typeof err === 'undefined', 'no err');
ref.flush();
console.assert(err === error, 'err passed to callback');
Simulate a security error by cancelling listeners (callbacks registered with on
) at the path with the specified err
. If an optional event
, callback
, and context
are provided, only listeners that match will be cancelled. forceCancel
will also invoke off
for the matched listeners so they will be no longer notified of any future changes. Cancellation is triggered immediately and not with a flush
call.
Example:
var error = new Error();
function onValue (snapshot) {}
function onCancel (_err_) {
err = _err_;
}
ref.on('value', onValue, onCancel);
ref.flush();
ref.forceCancel(error, 'value', onValue);
console.assert(err === error, 'err passed to onCancel');
Returns a copy of the data as it exists at the time. Any writes must be triggered with flush
before getData
will reflect their results.
Returns an array of the keys at the path as they are ordered in Firebase.
Triggers a fake event that is not connected to an actual change to Firebase data. A child key
is required unless the event is a 'value'
event.
Example:
var snapshot;
function onValue (_snapshot_) {
snapshot = _snapshot_;
}
ref.on('value', onValue);
ref.set({
foo: 'bar';
});
ref.flush();
console.assert(ref.getData().foo === 'bar', 'data has foo');
ref.fakeEvent('value', undefined, null);
ref.flush();
console.assert(ref.getData() === null, 'data is null');
Returns a list of all the event
objects queued to be run the next time ref.flush
is invoked.
These items can be manipulated manually by calling event.run
or event.cancel
. Each contains
a sourceMethod
and sourceArguments
attribute that can be used to identify specific
calls to a MockFirebase method.
This is a copy of the internal array and represents the state of the flush queue at the time getFlushQueue
is called.
Example:
// create some child_added events
var ref = new MockFirebase('OutOfOrderFlushEvents://');
var child1 = ref.push('foo');
var child2 = ref.push('bar');
var child3 = ref.push('baz');
var events = ref.getFlushQueue();
var sourceData = events[0].sourceData;
console.assert(sourceData.ref === child2, 'first event is for child1');
console.assert(sourceData.method, 'first event is a push');
console.assert(sourceData.args[0], 'push was called with "bar"');
ref.on('child_added', function (snap, prevChild) {
console.log('added ' + snap.val() + ' after ' + prevChild);
});
// cancel the second push so it never triggers a event
events[1].cancel();
// trigger the third push before the first
events[2].run(); // added baz after bar
// now flush the remainder of the queue normally
ref.flush(); // added foo after null
Authentication methods for simulating changes to the auth state of a Firebase reference.
Changes the active authentication credentials to the authData
object. Before changing the authentication state, changeAuthState
checks whether the authData
object is deeply equal to the current authentication data. onAuth
listeners will only be triggered if the data is not deeply equal. To simulate no user being authenticated, pass null
for authData
. This operation is queued until the next flush
.
authData
should adhere to the documented schema.
Example:
ref.changeAuthState({
uid: 'theUid',
provider: 'github',
token: 'theToken',
expires: Math.floor(new Date() / 1000) + 24 * 60 * 60, // expire in 24 hours
auth: {
myAuthProperty: true
}
});
ref.flush();
console.assert(ref.getAuth().auth.myAuthProperty, 'authData has custom property');
Finds a user previously created with createUser
. If no user was created with the specified email
, null
is returned instead.
MockFirebase allow you to simulate the behavior of server timestamps when using a real Firebase instance. Unless you use Firebase.setClock
, Firebase.ServerValue.TIMESTAMP
will be transformed to the current date (Date.now()
) when your data change is flushed.
Instead of using Date.now()
, MockFirebase will call the fn
you provide to generate a timestamp. fn
should return a number.
After calling Firebase.setClock
, calling Firebase.restoreClock
will restore the default timestamp behavior.