Add basic Remote connector e2e test

Gruntfile.js

@@ -103,11 +103,7 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
           // - PhantomJS
           // - IE (only Windows)
           browsers: [
-            'Chrome',
+            'Chrome'
-            'Firefox',
-            'Opera',
-            'Safari',
-            'PhantomJS'
           ],
 
           // If browser does not capture in given timeout [ms], kill it
@@ -136,6 +132,83 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
           // Add browserify to preprocessors
           preprocessors: {'test/*': ['browserify']}
         }
+      },
+      e2e: {
+        options: {
+          // base path, that will be used to resolve files and exclude
+          basePath: '',
+
+          // frameworks to use
+          frameworks: ['mocha', 'browserify'],
+
+          // list of files / patterns to load in the browser
+          files: [
+            'test/e2e/remote-connector.e2e.js'
+          ],
+
+          // list of files to exclude
+          exclude: [
+            
+          ],
+
+          // test results reporter to use
+          // possible values: 'dots', 'progress', 'junit', 'growl', 'coverage'
+          reporters: ['dots'],
+
+          // web server port
+          port: 9876,
+
+          // cli runner port
+          runnerPort: 9100,
+
+          // enable / disable colors in the output (reporters and logs)
+          colors: true,
+
+          // level of logging
+          // possible values: config.LOG_DISABLE || config.LOG_ERROR || config.LOG_WARN || config.LOG_INFO || config.LOG_DEBUG
+          logLevel: 'warn',
+
+          // enable / disable watching file and executing tests whenever any file changes
+          autoWatch: true,
+
+          // Start these browsers, currently available:
+          // - Chrome
+          // - ChromeCanary
+          // - Firefox
+          // - Opera
+          // - Safari (only Mac)
+          // - PhantomJS
+          // - IE (only Windows)
+          browsers: [
+            'Chrome'
+          ],
+
+          // If browser does not capture in given timeout [ms], kill it
+          captureTimeout: 60000,
+
+          // Continuous Integration mode
+          // if true, it capture browsers, run tests and exit
+          singleRun: false,
+
+          // Browserify config (all optional)
+          browserify: {
+            // extensions: ['.coffee'],
+            ignore: [
+              'nodemailer',
+              'passport',
+              'passport-local',
+              'superagent',
+              'supertest'
+            ],
+            // transform: ['coffeeify'],
+            // debug: true,
+            // noParse: ['jquery'],
+            watch: true,
+          },
+
+          // Add browserify to preprocessors
+          preprocessors: {'test/e2e/*': ['browserify']}
+        }
       }
     }
 
@@ -148,6 +221,14 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-contrib-watch');
   grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-karma');
 
+  grunt.registerTask('e2e-server', function() {
+    var done = this.async();
+    var app = require('./test/fixtures/e2e/app');
+    app.listen(3000, done);
+  });
+
+  grunt.registerTask('e2e', ['e2e-server', 'karma:e2e']);
+
   // Default task.
   grunt.registerTask('default', ['browserify']);
 

lib/application.js

@@ -56,7 +56,12 @@ app.remotes = function () {
   if(this._remotes) {
     return this._remotes;
   } else {
-    var options = this.get('remoting') || {};
+    var options = {};
+
+    if(this.get) {
+      options = this.get('remoting');
+    }
+     
     return (this._remotes = RemoteObjects.create(options));
   }
 }

package.json

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     "supertest": "~0.9.0",
     "chai": "~1.9.0",
     "loopback-testing": "~0.1.2",
-    "browserify": "~3.30.2",
+    "browserify": "~3.41.0",
     "grunt": "~0.4.2",
     "grunt-browserify": "~1.3.1",
     "grunt-contrib-uglify": "~0.3.2",
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@
     "karma-html2js-preprocessor": "~0.1.0",
     "karma-phantomjs-launcher": "~0.1.2",
     "karma": "~0.10.9",
-    "karma-browserify": "0.1.0",
+    "karma-browserify": "~0.2.0",
     "karma-mocha": "~0.1.1",
     "grunt-karma": "~0.6.2"
   },

test/e2e/remote-connector.e2e.js

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+var path = require('path');
+var loopback = require('../../');
+var models = require('../fixtures/e2e/models');
+var TestModel = models.TestModel;
+var assert = require('assert');
+
+describe('RemoteConnector', function() {
+  before(function() {
+    // setup the remote connector
+    var localApp = loopback();
+    var ds = loopback.createDataSource({
+      url: 'http://localhost:3000/api',
+      connector: loopback.Remote
+    });
+    localApp.model(TestModel);
+    TestModel.attachTo(ds);
+  });
+
+  it('should be able to call create', function (done) {
+    TestModel.create({
+      foo: 'bar'
+    }, function(err, inst) {
+      if(err) return done(err);
+      assert(inst.id);
+      done();
+    });
+  });
+});

test/fixtures/e2e/app.js

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+var loopback = require('../../../');
+var path = require('path');
+var app = module.exports = loopback();
+var models = require('./models');
+var TestModel = models.TestModel;
+
+app.use(loopback.cookieParser({secret: app.get('cookieSecret')}));
+var apiPath = '/api';
+app.use(apiPath, loopback.rest());
+app.use(loopback.static(path.join(__dirname, 'public')));
+app.use(loopback.urlNotFound());
+app.use(loopback.errorHandler());
+app.model(TestModel);
+TestModel.attachTo(loopback.memory());

test/fixtures/e2e/models.js

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+var loopback = require('../../../');
+var DataModel = loopback.DataModel;
+
+exports.TestModel = DataModel.extend('TestModel');