SOLVED Empty ShallowWrapper Snapshot Object in Jest and Enzyme

When working with mongoose and MongoDB, it is common thing to save a document and return the newly created document as the API response. Sometimes we have to modify the response before sending. That is what we are going to see here.

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We have a signup API that saves user data and returns it. Here is the mongoose userSchema.

const userSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  email: {
    type: String,
    required: true,
  },
  password: {
    type: String,
    required: true,
  },
});

Without any modification, the signup API response looks like this.

{
    "_id": "6055863ae572b800194d342a",
    "email": "joby@adsf.sd",
    "password": "2d91dac0bd33ec1e4d3cef2e297b2f7fea349dd2c594174e67cfecb07e465e7c7a8c26761e315fdbeb8bccd171cab2abcd84687738c5463636f23b1d43190a62.989c3332f75b5590",
    "__v": 0
}

We need to clean up the response. Following changes needs to be done in the response.

• Change _id key to id
• Remove password key
• Remove __v key

Mongoose schema supports a JSON filter. So, whenever a JSON response is send by a route, it calls this filter. This toJSON filter can be added to userSchema like below.

const userSchema = new mongoose.Schema(
  {
    email: {
      type: String,
      required: true,
    },
    password: {
      type: String,
      required: true,
    },
  },
  {    toJSON: {      transform(doc, ret) {        ret.id = ret._id;        delete ret._id;        delete ret.password;      },      versionKey: false,    },  });

toJSON accepts an object which contains the instruction to transform the API response. The logic written assigns _id to id. After that we delete _id and password fields. Then setting versionKey to false removes __v property. After doing all these, now the signup API returns response like below.

{
    "email": "joby123@adsf.sd",
    "id": "605588229025fa002f88cac6"
}

This is how we can create clean and standardized API response when working with mongoose and MongoDB.