Permission denied when running the test

[vowsjs]

Permission denied when running the test

[indexzero]

Maybe you don't have permission to listen on that port? What is the code you're testing?

[tciuro]

It's a node.js server that's working fine (I'm actually testing it with Objective-C and Chrome's Dev HTTP Client utility. I'm running on port 8080 without issues:

9 Jul 00:09:02 - [nodemon] starting `node app.js localhost 8080`
Express HTTP server listening on port 8080

Assuming that the server is running fine, the above code would report a 403 as opposed to permission denied, right? Or is this permission denied the result of an HTTP 403? (which the server returns if no authentication has succeeded)

Thank you.

[tciuro]

I'm having no trouble at all performing the invocation from the browser. Weird...

[tciuro]

OK, somehow I got it to work (I've tried so many things I'm not sure what made it work.) This is the dummy test I setup in place:

function showStats(req, res) {

  log.info('GET /admin/stats');

  var someValue = '12345';
  res.writeHead(200, {
    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
  });
  res.write(JSON.stringify({
    someValue: someValue
  }));
  return res.end();
}

module.exports.initialize = function (app) {
  app.get('/admin/stats', showStats);
};

This is the test:

var APIeasy = require('api-easy'),
  assert = require('assert');

var suite = APIeasy.describe('your/awesome/api');

suite.discuss('When using your awesome API')
  .discuss('and your awesome resource')
  .use('localhost', 8080)
  .setHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json')
  .get('/admin/stats')
  .expect(200)
  .export(module);

When I call npm test, I get the following:

Macintosh:fooTest tito$ npm test
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No repository field.
npm WARN package.json [email protected] No readme data.

> [email protected] test /Users/tito/Desktop/fooTest
> vows test/*-test.js

✗  

    When using your awesome API and your awesome resource A GET to /admin/stats 
      ✗ should respond with 200 
        » expected 200, 
    got  400 (==) // api-easy.js:290 
  ✗ Broken » 1 broken (1.330s) 
  npm ERR! weird error 1
npm ERR! not ok code 0
Macintosh:fooTest tito$ 

How in the world is it getting a 400? It's impossible! Again, if I invoke it via http://localhost:8080/admin/stats I get back:

{
    "someValue":"12345"
}

Even Charles proxy shows that the response is a 200. What gives?