tests/testthat/test-get_independent_expenditure_by_committee.R

In ProPublicaR: Access Functions for ProPublica's APIs

context("get_independent_expenditure_by_committee")

test_that("get error if incorrect cycle", {
  cycle <- seq(1995,2018)
  expect_warning(expect_error(get_independent_expenditure_by_committee(cycle[1], 'C00575423'), "Incorrect cycle"), "Cycle should be four-digit year larger than 1996")
  expect_warning(expect_error(get_independent_expenditure_by_committee(cycle[3], 'C00575423'), "Incorrect cycle"), "Cycle should be even-numbered year larger than 1996")
  expect_warning(expect_error(get_independent_expenditure_by_committee(16, 'C00575423'), "Incorrect cycle"), "Cycle should be four-digit year")
  expect_error(get_independent_expenditure_by_committee(1998, 'C00575423'), 
               "Incorrect cycle: independent expenditures are from 2009 to present")
})

test_that("error with API key ", {
  if(file.exists("config.yml") & is.null(config::get('ProPublica')[['campaign-finance']])){expect_error(get_independent_expenditure_by_committee(2016, 'C00575423'),"API key not found or is missing. \nHint: This should be in config.yml in your working directory or higher.")}
  expect_warning(get_independent_expenditure_by_committee(2016, 'C00575423', myAPI_Key = "16"),  "Status code was: 500")
  if(!file.exists("config.yml") & !exists("myAPI_Key")){expect_error(get_independent_expenditure_by_committee(2016, 'C00575423'), "API key not found or is missing. \nHint: This should be in config.yml in your working directory or higher.")}
})

expect_error(get_independent_expenditure_by_committee(2016, 575423), 'FEC_ID has to be character')