No handler function found with fireEvent.press on disabled TouchableOpacity

[Andarius]

Describe the bug

When running fireEvent.press on a disabled TouchableOpacity, the following error appears: No handler function found for event: "press"

Expected behavior

Should not raise an error

Steps to Reproduce

Run the following

import { TouchableOpacity } from 'react-native'

describe.only('Test TouchableOpacity', () => {
    const Button = ({ onPress }) => {
        return <TouchableOpacity testID='testBtn' disabled={true} onPress={onPress}></TouchableOpacity>
    }

    const onPressSpy = sinon.spy()

    it('onPress does not trigger', () => {
        const { getByTestId } = render( <Button onPress={onPressSpy}/>)
        fireEvent.press(getByTestId('testBtn'))
        expect(props.onPress.callCount).toBe(0)
    })
})

Versions

  npmPackages:
    @testing-library/react-native: ^7.0.0 => 7.0.0 
    react: 16.13.1 => 16.13.1 
    react-native: 0.63.0 => 0.63.0 
    react-test-renderer: ^16.13.0 => 16.13.1 

[thymikee]

The "touchable" is disabled, so the handler won't be invoked, hence the error thrown. I think we could improve the wording to be more obvious here.

[thymikee]

cc @mdjastrzebski as he also has some thoughts on the topic :)

[Andarius]

So what is the correct option here to test a disabled touchable ? Something like

const Button = ({ onPress, isDisabled }) => {
    return <TouchableOpacity testID='testBtn' disabled={isDisabled} onPress={isDisabled ? () => {}: onPress} />
}

?

[thymikee]

expect(...).toThrowError("No handler function found")

[Andarius]

it('onPress does not trigger', () => {
    const { getByTestId } = render( <Button onPress={() => console.log('called')}/>)
    expect(fireEvent.press(getByTestId('testBtn'))).toThrowError('No handler function found')
})

Still raises an error

[thymikee]

Use the .toThrowError() Jest matcher. The expectation must be in a function body so that Jest can try to call it:

expect(() => {
  fireEvent.press(getByTestId('testBtn'))
}).toThrowError('No handler function found')

[Andarius]

Oh sorry nevermind it works, thanks !

[mdjastrzebski]

@Andarius I think your original complain is a valid point. So fireEvent throws error when it does not find any matching event handler, which should suggested to the programmer that there is a problem with assertions or components under test.

However the case when there is event handler but is disabled should probably be handled without throwing error.

[thymikee]

We've just released 7.0.1 which now doesn't throw. So please adjust your tests to something like this:

fireEvent.press(getByTestId('testBtn'));
expect(handlePress).not.toHaveBeenCalled();