helpers.js

var EventEmitter = require('events').EventEmitter;
var stream = require('stream');
var util = require('util');

// Used to stub out calls to `request`.
exports.FakeRequest = function () {
  EventEmitter.call(this)
}
util.inherits(exports.FakeRequest, EventEmitter)
exports.FakeRequest.prototype.destroy = function () {

}

// Used to stub out the http.IncomingMessage object emitted by the "response" event on `request`.
exports.FakeResponse = function (statusCode, body) {
  if (!body) {
    body = '';
  }
  this.statusCode = statusCode;
  stream.Readable.call(this);
  this.push(body);
  this.push(null);
}
util.inherits(exports.FakeResponse, stream.Readable);

exports.FakeResponse.prototype._read = function () {

}
exports.FakeResponse.prototype.destroy = function () {

}

exports.generateRandomString = function generateRandomString (length) {
  var length = length || 10
  var ret = ''
  var alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789'
  for (var i = 0; i < length; i++) {
    // use an easy set of unicode as an alphabet - twitter won't reformat them
    // which makes testing easier
    ret += alphabet[Math.floor(Math.random()*alphabet.length)]
  }

  ret = encodeURI(ret)

  return ret
}