How do I programmatically create a TouchEvent in Chrome 41?

Question

I am trying to create a touch event for a unit test. After reading https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TouchEvent, I expected that I would be able to do:

Answer 1

I don't know if it works in other browsers but in chrome you can do something like

/* eventType is 'touchstart', 'touchmove', 'touchend'... */
function sendTouchEvent(x, y, element, eventType) {
  const touchObj = new Touch({
    identifier: Date.now(),
    target: element,
    clientX: x,
    clientY: y,
    radiusX: 2.5,
    radiusY: 2.5,
    rotationAngle: 10,
    force: 0.5,
  });

  const touchEvent = new TouchEvent(eventType, {
    cancelable: true,
    bubbles: true,
    touches: [touchObj],
    targetTouches: [],
    changedTouches: [touchObj],
    shiftKey: true,
  });

  element.dispatchEvent(touchEvent);
}

const myElement = document.getElementById('foo')

sendTouchEvent(150, 150, myElement, 'touchstart');
sendTouchEvent(220, 200, myElement, 'touchmove');
sendTouchEvent(220, 200, myElement, 'touchend');

To test if a given browser supports Touch and TouchEvent

if (typeof Touch !== 'undefined' &&
    typeof TouchEvent !== 'undefined' &&
    Touch.length === 1 &&
    TouchEvent.length === 1) {
       sendTouchEvent(200, 200, myElement, 'touchmove');
}

see Touch and TouchEvent constructors