Chai unittesting - expect(42).to.be.an('integer')

Question

According to http://chaijs.com/api/bdd/#a, a/an can be used to check for the type of a variable.

.a(type)

@param{ String } type

@param{ String } message _optional_

The a and an assertions are aliases that can be used either as language chains or to assert a value's type.

However, I'm not able to check for the variable beeing an integer. The given examples, e.g. expect('1337').to.be.a('string'); work for me, but the following does not:

expect(42).to.be.an('integer'); expect(42).to.be.an('Integer'); expect(42).to.be.an('int'); expect(42).to.be.an('Int'); 

All of them are giving me the following error when running mocha:

Uncaught AssertionError: expected 42 to be an integer 

How do I test with chai for a variable beeing an integer?

Answer 1

A bit late, but for people coming from search engines, here is another solution:

var expect = require('chai').expect  expect(foo).to.be.a('number') expect(foo % 1).to.equal(0) 

The number check is required because of things such as true % 1 === 0 or null % 1 === 0.

Answer 2

JavaScript doesn't have a separate integer type.

Everything is a IEE 754 floating point number, which would of type number.