Unit Testing Redux Async Function With Jest

I'm pretty new to unit testing so please pardon any noobness. I have a file api.js which has all the API call functions for the app. Each function returns its promise. Here's how i

Solution 1:

Your mock of api needs to return a function that returns an object that has the end function:

import api from 'api' //to set the implantation of getData we need to import the api into the test

// this will turn your api into an object with the getData function
// initial this is just a dumb spy but you can overwrite its behaviour in the test later on 
jest.mock('api.js', ()=> ({getData: jest.fn()}));

describe('getData Action', () => {
  it('gets the data', () => {
    const result = {test: 1234}
    // for the success case you mock getData so that it returns the end function that calls the callback without an error and some data
    api.getData.mockImplementation(() => ({end: cb => cb(null, result)}))
    expect(store.dispatch(getData())).toEqual(expectedAction);
  });

 it('it thows on error', () => {

    // for the error case you mock getData so that it returns the end function that calls the callback with an error and no data
    api.getData.mockImplementation(() => ({end: cb => cb({status: 'someError'}, null)}))
    expect(store.dispatch(getData())).toThrow();
  });
});