Calling server.inject() POST request not calling handler in Hapi.js - testing

Question

I have a Jasmine test spec test_spec.js like this:
describe('my tests', () => {
it('POST should return 201 created', () => {
var req = {
method: 'POST',
url: '/api/v1.0/message',
payload: JSON.stringify({name: 'Ethan'})
};
server.inject(req, res => {
expect(res.statusCode).to.equal(201);
});
});
});
The route for the API call looks like this:
var routes = [{
path: '/api/v1.0/message',
method: 'POST',
handler: function(request, reply) {
reply('Success').created();
}
}];
exports.register = function(server, options, next) {
server.route(routes);
next();
}
When I run the tests, though, this particular test's expect() function doesn't get called because the server.inject() method doesn't call the response callback. In fact, not even the route handler method gets called (I checked with console.log statements). However, when I change the request method and the route from POST to GET, it works and the test calls the expect() method as expected. The test just doesn't work with POST requests. Am I doing it wrong?

Answer 1

Turns out that the problem was in the test call describe() snippet posted in my question. I neglected to call the done() function inside the server.inject() call. Once I added that, the POST test started getting called:
describe('my tests', () => {
it('POST should return 201 created', (done) => {
var req = {
method: 'POST',
url: '/api/v1.0/message',
payload: JSON.stringify({name: 'Ethan'})
};
server.inject(req, res => {
expect(res.statusCode).toEqual(201);
done();
});
});
});
The need to call the done() callback wasn't obvious to me from the Jasmine documentation. The call is necessary in order to postpone the spec completion until done() is called (meaning payload is posted).