enzymejs/enzyme

click to simulate an active div tag

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#1426 opened on Dec 11, 2017

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Description

Hi guys, I'm here with another issue. Its reactjs. my tags are similar to following:- <div class="conversationItem"><span>piloy</span>.....</div> Onclick, the div will change to following:- <div class="conversationItem active"><span>piloy</span>.....</div>

This is the test i wrote to simulate the click activity:-

            wrapper.find('div.conversationItem').simulate('click');
            wrapper.update();
            expect(wrapper.find('div.conversationItem.active')).to.have.length(1);

But its not working as i expected. div.conversationItem.active is never found. it's count is 0. People, Please help me to overcome this.

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React fundamentalsEnzyme API basicsEvent simulation in tests
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30
Research direction
Investigate how the component handles the click event and updates the 'active' class. The simulate method triggers the event but may not trigger React's state update if the handler is not bound correctly or if the component uses asynchronous state updates. Look at the component's source code to see if it uses setState or useState. Use wrapper.debug() to verify the output after simulate. The comments on the issue may contain clues about the solution.