How do I change the timeout on a jasmine-node async spec

How can I get this test to pass without resorting to runs/waitsFor blocks?

it("cannot change timeout", function(done) {

     request("http://localhost:3000/hello", function(error, response, body){

         expect(body).toEqual("hello world");

         done();
     });
});

Solution 1:

You can (now) set it directly in the spec, as per Jasmine docs.

describe("long asynchronous specs", function() {

    var originalTimeout;

    beforeEach(function() {
        originalTimeout = jasmine.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL;
        jasmine.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL = 10000;
    });

    it("takes a long time", function(done) {
        setTimeout(function() {
            done();
        }, 9000);
    });

    afterEach(function() {
        jasmine.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL = originalTimeout;
    });
});

Solution 2:

Sent pull request for this feature (https://github.com/mhevery/jasmine-node/pull/142)

it("cannot change timeout", function(done) {

  request("http://localhost:3000/hello", function(error, response, body){

     expect(body).toEqual("hello world");

     done();
  });

}, 5000); // set timeout to 5 seconds

Solution 3:

To set the global Jasmine-Node timeout, do this:

jasmine.getEnv().defaultTimeoutInterval = timeoutYouWouldPrefer;// e.g. 15000 milliseconds

Credit to developer Gabe Hicks for figuring out the .getEnv() part via debugging in spite of misinformation in the README doc which claims it's done by setting jasmine.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL.

If you want to set a custom timeout just for one it(), you could try passing the timeout (milliseconds) as a third argument (after the string statement and the function). There's an example of that being done here, but I'm not sure what would happen if the custom timeout was longer than Jasmine's default. I expect it would fail.