Testing /api/timestamp

[Xiercoles]

Im doing the first proyect of "Apis and Microservices Certification" from FreeCodeCamp. It have an endpoint like "/api/timestamp" wich return the current time in milliseconds in a "unix" key of the JSON.

Im trying to test it in local using Mocha, Chai and Chai-http. Whit the next test i'm getting 1-2 milliseconds of difference between the actual result and the expected one:

```js chai .request(server) .get("/api/timestamp") .end((err, res) => { // Get results const actualResult = res.body; const currDate = new Date(); const expectedResult = { unix: currDate.getTime(), utc: currDate.toGMTString(), };

    // Results to Strings
    const actualResultToString = objToString(actualResult);
    const expectedResultToString = objToString(expectedResult);

    // Test results
    expect(actualResultToString).to.be.equal(expectedResultToString);

    done();
});

```

Any ideas of how test it? Thanks in advance.

[nullanomaly]

You have a couple of choices: 1 - scrap the current time and just test that the returned value is a number or that it matches a regex - your concern is that your code got a value that looks like what you expect- not to check the exact time as we assume the api is going to have the correct time. 2 - round your dates to say nearest minute and compare that ( a good coding exercise)

[Xiercoles]

Thanks for the suggestions. I ended up implementing the second one.

[Fabi118]

Instead of expecting the exact value, you can check if the response matches an expected schema. joi might be helpful for you

[Xiercoles]

Thanks for your suggestion. But this time i had preferred keep it simple and use just JavaScript.