Lesson 6: testing .addperson() function in hardhat

[jeefxM]

Hey everyone, in tutorial video Patrick completed 50% of testing SimpleStorage so i wanted to finish the testing and I couldn't quite get the correct logic for addPerson function from SimpleStorage. Can anyone help ?

 it("Should add new person in the empty array", async () => {
    
        const transactionResponse = await simpleStorage.addPerson("David", "55")
        await transactionResponse.wait(1)
        const peopleArray = await simpleStorage.people([0])

        const newPerson = ["David", "55"]

        assert.equal(peopleArray, newPerson)
    })

I am getting this error : AssertionError: expected [ Array(2) ] to equal [ 'David', '55' ]

[pacelliv]

Comment the assert, print peopleArray and rerun the test to see what's returning. I might be wrong but seems to be empty.

[pacelliv]

@jeefxM if you print peopleArray to the console most likely it will return an array with the struct People inside of it.

To verify that the person and the number were stored in the array correctly you could try two asserts, example:

assert.equal(peopleArray.name, "David")
assert.equal(peopleArray.number, "55")

Let me know if this solve your issue.

[jeefxM]

Thanks bro it worked

[pacelliv]

Great! Good luck!

[sefkoleen]

Just a quick notice, I had to go with

assert.equal(peopleArray.name, "Robert")
assert.equal(peopleArray.favoriteNumber, "29")

Because the variable in the "people" array is called "favoriteNumber".
Works perfectly tho, thank you for the clarification! 🙏