getting uninformative errors when mocha side bar fails to run "Failed to run tests due to unknown error"

[maty21]

getting uninformative errors when mocha side bar fails to run "Failed to run tests due to unknown error"

[nicck]

Actually when I save file something interesting appears in output:

Running Mocha with Node.js at /usr/local/bin/node

Applying Mocha options:
  {
    "recursive": true
  }

Test file(s):


  0 passing (0ms)

###end
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finish failuare amount:0
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Usually I run my tests via yarn test or npm test which invoke following command: mocha -r dotenv/config --recursive ./test dotenv_config_path=.env.test. I've added some options to workspace settings:

    "mocha.options": {
        "recursive": true
    },
    "mocha.requires": ["dotenv/config"]

not sure how can I pass dotenv_config_path=.env.test to mocha.

[maty21]

Do you have some sample code that I can test and debug it for you tks

[maty21]

@nicck does your tests running from mocha command line?

[nicck]

I've created a small repo to show the problem: https://github.com/nicck/mocha-sidebar-test-app

~/Code/testapp master
❯ yarn     
yarn install v0.27.5
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
[3/4] Linking dependencies...
[4/4] Building fresh packages...
Done in 0.83s.
                                                                                                                        
~/Code/testapp master
❯ yarn test
yarn test v0.27.5
$ mocha -r dotenv/config --recursive ./test dotenv_config_path=.env.test
Warning: Could not find any test files matching pattern: dotenv_config_path=.env.test


  env
    ✓ works

  doit
    ✓ works
    1) does not work


  2 passing (12ms)
  1 failing

  1) doit does not work:

      Error: Expected 123 to equal 321
      + expected - actual

      -123
      +321
      
      at assert (node_modules/expect/lib/assert.js:29:9)
      at Expectation.toEqual (node_modules/expect/lib/Expectation.js:81:30)
      at Context.it (test/app/doit.test.js:18:29)



error Command failed with exit code 1.

it works from command line as expected.

[nicck]

@maty21 please let me know if I can help with reproducing this issue or you need any more details.

[maty21]

Tks man I will debug it in the weekend :)

[yehiyam]

@nicck We need to figure out how to support dotenv, but as a workaround you could add the env from the file to mocha.env settings.
I was able to get your tests to run with these settings:

{
    "mocha.requires": [
        "dotenv/config"
    ],
    "mocha.options": {
        "recursive":true
    },
    "mocha.env": {
        "NODE_ENV":"test",
        "OAUTH_CLIENT_ID":987
    }
}

[maty21]

fixed in version 0.14.30