registry-validator

Validate your npm registry implementation, check if it correctly implements the npm protocol.

Usage (CLI)

Install this module globally:

$ npm install -g registry-validator

Once your registry is up and running, run the validation:

$ registry-validator http://127.0.0.1:15984/ admin:pass

The validation suite uploads multiple dummy packages to the registry, therefore you should always use a dedicated test-only instance of the registry server.

It's recommented to reset the registry to an empty state before each run.

CLI parameters

The first argument is the URL of the registry. Use the same value you pass to --registry option of npm.

The second argument is optional credentials to use for publishing test packages. The format is {login}:{password}.

Usage (programatic)

Add the module to your project

$ npm install --save-dev registry-validator

Create a new test file that will

• start your registry server
• run the validation test suite

var validator = require('registry-validator');
var registry = require('../');
 
// assuming an express-based implementation
var app = registry();
app.listen(function() {
  var port = this.address().port;
  run('http://localhost:' + port);
});
 
function run(url) {
  validator
    .configure(url, {/* options - see below */})
    .run(function(err) {
      if (err) console.error(err);
      process.exit(err ? 1 : 0);
    });
});

NOTE

This module uses mocha and bluebird internally. While it should be possible to include this module in an application that uses some of those three modules too, extra care must be taken to prevent configuration conflicts. It may be easier to use the CLI or start the registry in a child process in such case.

Configuration options

• userCredentials - {String} in the form of 'user:password'. The credentials to use for authentication of the registry requests.

Self-test

The module comes with infrastructure to run the validation against the official CouchDB based registry application.

To run the tests, you must have CouchDB installed and the couchdb executable must be in your PATH.

Use the usual npm test command to run the self-test.

Troubleshooting

If the assertion message does not include enough details to identify the problem, set the environment variable DEBUG=registry-validator:* and re-run the failing test. Debug logs contain the output from the npm client among other things.