To pass values to other test cases in mocha - testing

Question

The following is my index.js file (test -> index.js)
var token;
describe('POST login', () => {
it('should return status 200', (done) => {
chai.request(app)
.post('login')
.send({
"email":"***#mail.com",
"password":"***"
})
.end((err , response) => {
if(err)
done(err);
response.should.have.status(200);
token = response.header.token;
done();
});
});
});
module.exports.token = token
This is my report test file (test -> report.js)
let chai = require('chai');
let chaiHttp = require('chai-http');
let {app} = require('../test');
chai.use(chaiHttp);
chai.should();
const {token} = require('./index');
beforeEach(function (done) {
setTimeout(function(){
done();
}, 5000);
});
describe('POST /report', () => {
it('should return status 200', (done) => {
console.log("MyToken" +token);
chai.request(app)
.post('/report')
.set({'token': token})
.end((err , response) => {
if(err) done(err);
response.should.have.status(200);
response.body.should.be.a('object');
done();
});
});
});
But in the log, I'm getting the MyToken value as undefined. My question is, how can I pass the values across multiple tests? In case if null or undefined, it should stop other tests from executing.

Answer 1

The main problem in your code is that token is a string. String is primitive value which is immutable. You simply export undefined and that's it, this exported value will never change. You could employ an Object instead:
var token;
...and...
token.value = response.header.token;
...and...
.set({'token': token.value})