Chimpy.js

With Chimpy you can write your tests in a synchronous style. So you don’t have to deal with confusing promise chains or callback hell.

All the APIs that are shipped with Chimp can be used in a synchronous style by default. This includes the WebdriverIO commands, request module, and the DDP client.

Making asynchronous functions synchronous

If you have asynchronous functions that you want to use in your tests, you can wrap them with our helper functions wrapAsync and wrapAsyncObject. Both helpers work with asynchronous functions that return a promise or use a callback.

• wrapAsync(fn: Function, [context: Object]): Function Takes the asynchronous function as first argument and optional the function context (the value of this inside the function). It returns a synchronous version of the asynchronous function.

• wrapAsyncObject(object: Object, properties: Array, [options: Object]): Object Creates synchronous versions of the asynchronous methods of an object. It returns the wrapper object with the synchronous and asynchronous methods.The first argument is the object. The second argument is an array of the method names that should be made synchronous.

Example

You have an object myObject with an asynchronous method myFunc:

var myObject = {
  myFunc: function (callback) { ... }  // Asynchronous function
}

You wrap it with wrapAsyncObject:

var myObjectWrapper = wrapAsyncObject(myObject, ['myFunc'])

myObjectWrapper is:

myObjectWrapper = {
  myFunc: function () { ... } // Synchronous version
  myFuncSync: function () { ... } // Synchronous version
  myFuncAsync: function (callback) { ... } // Asynchronous version
}

myObject has not changed.

options

• syncByDefault: Boolean (default: true)

If you set this to false, you get this result instead:

myObjectWrapper = {
  myFunc: function (callback) { ... } // Asynchronous version
  myFuncSync: function () { ... } // Synchronous version
  myFuncAsync: function (callback) { ... } // Asynchronous version
}

myFunc is asynchronous.

• wrapAsync: Function (default: wrapAsync)

If you want to use another function to wrap the asynchronous methods, you could pass it with this option.

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