Warn-only tests

By default, a failing test has a severity of error. Sometimes you may need to lower the severity level of a given test to warn so that even when it fails, it should not prevent submission. An example of this would be validating password strength.

To set a test's severity level to warn call the warn function from the body of your test.

import { create, test, enforce, warn } from 'vest';

const suite = create(data => {
  test('password', 'A password must have at least 6 characters', () => {
    enforce(data.password).longerThan(5);
  }); // this test has a severity level of `error`

  test('password', 'Your password strength is: WEAK', () => {
    warn();

    enforce(data.password).matches(
      /^(?=.*[a-z])(?=.*[A-Z])(?=.*\d)[a-zA-Z\d]$/
    );
  }); // this test has a severity level of `warn`

  test('password', 'Your password strength is: MEDIUM', () => {
    warn();

    enforce(data.password).matches(
      /^(?=.*[A-Za-z])(?=.*\d)(?=.*[@$!%*#?&])[A-Za-z\d@$!%*#?&]$/
    );
  }); // this test has a severity level of `warn`
});

const validationResult = suite(data);

Limitations when using warn()

• You may only use warn from within the body of a test function.
• When using warn() in an async test you should call the warn function in the sync portion of your test (and not after an await call or in the Promise body). Ideally, you want to call warn() at the top of your test function.

// ✔
test('password', async () => {
  warn();
  return await someAsyncFunction();
});

// ✔
test('password', () => {
  warn();
  return anAsyncFunction();
});

// 🚨 This will result in your warn() call not taking effect
test('password', async () => {
  await someAsyncFunction();

  warn(); // 🚨
});

// 🚨 This will result in your warn() call not taking effect
test('password', () => {
  return anAsyncFunction().then(() => {
    warn(); // 🚨
  });
});

Using warning in the result object

Just like you do with errors, you can access the errors in your validation warnings using these methods:

result.hasWarnings(); // Returns whether any warnings are present in the suite.
result.hasWarnings('password'); // Returns whether any warnings are present in the 'password' field.

result.getWarnings(); // Returns an object with all the fields that have warnings, and an array of warnings for each.
result.getWarnings('password'); // Returns an array of warnings for the password field.

Read next about:

• Vest's result object.