How to test Async Storage with Jest?

Question

I\'m building an app with React Native. I want to minimize how often I communicate to the database, so I make heavy use of AsyncStorage. There\'s a lot of room for bugs in t

Answer 1

My original answer just pointed at how the author of react-native-simple-store had dealt with the mocking. I've updated my answer with my own mocking that removes Jason's hard-coded mock responses.

Jason Merino has a nice simple approach to this in https://github.com/jasonmerino/react-native-simple-store/blob/master/tests/index-test.js#L31-L64

jest.mock('react-native', () => ({
AsyncStorage: {
    setItem: jest.fn(() => {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            resolve(null);
        });
    }),
    multiSet:  jest.fn(() => {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            resolve(null);
        });
    }),
    getItem: jest.fn(() => {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            resolve(JSON.stringify(getTestData()));
        });
    }),
    multiGet: jest.fn(() => {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            resolve(multiGetTestData());
        });
    }),
    removeItem: jest.fn(() => {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            resolve(null);
        });
    }),
    getAllKeys: jest.fn(() => {
        return new Promise((resolve) => {
            resolve(['one', 'two', 'three']);
        });
    })
  }
}));

My own mock:

const items = {};

jest.mock('react-native', () => ({

AsyncStorage: {        

    setItem: jest.fn((item, value) => {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {        
    items[item] = value;
            resolve(value);
        });
    }),
    multiSet:  jest.fn((item, value) => {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    items[item] = value;
            resolve(value);
        });
    }),
    getItem: jest.fn((item, value) => {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            resolve(items[item]);
        });
    }),
    multiGet: jest.fn((item) => {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            resolve(items[item]);
        });
    }),
    removeItem: jest.fn((item) => {
        return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
            resolve(delete items[item]);
        });
    }),
    getAllKeys: jest.fn((items) => {
        return new Promise((resolve) => {
            resolve(items.keys());
        });
    })
  }
}));