How to test getSession-protected API endpoints

[willnix86]

Question 💬

I'm trying to test my Next.js API but all the endpoints are protected by Next-Auth's getSession functionality. How is it possible to mock a session before every request during testing?

[balazsorban44]

In our internal tests, we simply mock the request to /api/auth/session getSession() does.

next-auth/src/client/__tests__/helpers/mocks.js

Lines 5 to 13 in 0475964

	export const mockSession = {
	ok: true,
	user: {
	image: null,
	name: "John",
	email: "john@email.com",
	},
	expires: 123213139,
	}

(Don't think ok: true is actually needed there.)

You could also use jest.mock to mock the getSession return value.