Merge pull request #90 from vuex-orm/82-89-warn-on-non-insertable-res…

…ponse-data

#82 #89 Warn users when the response data is not insertable

src/api/Request.ts

@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ export default class Request {
       return response
     }
 
-    config.save && response.save()
+    config.save && await response.save()
 
     return response
   }

src/api/Response.ts

@@ -41,9 +41,15 @@ export default class Response {
    * Save response data to the store.
    */
   async save (): Promise<void> {
-    this.entities = await this.model.insertOrUpdate({
-      data: this.getDataFromResponse()
-    })
+    const data = this.getDataFromResponse()
+
+    if (!this.validateData(data)) {
+      console.warn('[Vuex ORM Axios] The response data could not be saved to the store because it\'s not an object or an array. You might want to use `dataTransformer` option to handle non-array/object response before saving it to the store.')
+
+      return
+    }
+
+    this.entities = await this.model.insertOrUpdate({ data })
 
     this.isSaved = true
   }
@@ -75,4 +81,11 @@ export default class Response {
 
     return this.response.data
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Validate if the given data is insertable to Vuex ORM.
+   */
+  private validateData (data: any): data is Record | Record[] {
+    return data !== null && typeof data === 'object'
+  }
 }

test/feature/Response_Save.spec.ts

@@ -20,6 +20,25 @@ describe('Feature - Response - Save', () => {
   beforeEach(() => { mock = new MockAdapter(axios) })
   afterEach(() => { mock.reset() })
 
+  it('warns the user if the response data is not insertable', async () => {
+    const spy = jest.spyOn(console, 'warn')
+
+    spy.mockImplementation(x => x)
+
+    createStore([User])
+
+    mock.onGet('/api/users').reply(200, null)
+    await User.api().get('/api/users')
+
+    mock.onGet('/api/users').reply(200, 1)
+    await User.api().get('/api/users')
+
+    expect(console.warn).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(2)
+
+    spy.mockReset()
+    spy.mockRestore()
+  })
+
   it('can save response data afterword', async () => {
     mock.onGet('/api/users').reply(200, { id: 1, name: 'John Doe' })