Writing Structural Expectations with Jest - graphql

Question

I am looking to write what I am calling structural expectations with Jest and I am not sure how this could be accomplished.
To start I have a graphql server and a database with a number of todo items. I currently have the following test that just returns true if the content within the database is the same as the response that I have written. I want to check instead that the response looks like an object with data that could be anything.
Here is the code that I have:
describe('To Do:', () => {
it('add todo items', async () => {
const response = await axios.post('http://localhost:5000/graphql', {
query: `
query {
getTodoItems {
message
id
dateCreated
dateDue
}
}
`
});
const { data } = response;
expect(data).toMatchObject({
data: {
getTodoItems: [
{
message: "message",
id: "5bd9aec8406e0a2170e04494",
dateCreated: "1540992712052",
dateDue: "1111111111"
},
{
message: "message",
id: "5bd9aeec60a9b2579882a308",
dateCreated: "1540992748028",
dateDue: "1111111111"
},
{
message: "new message",
id: "5bd9af15922b27236c91837c",
dateCreated: "1540992789836",
dateDue: "1111111111"
}
]
}
})
});
});
Now I want to write something like this, where there can be any number of returned items and they follow similar structuring:
describe('To Do:', () => {
it('add todo items', async () => {
const response = await axios.post('http://localhost:5000/graphql', {
query: `
query {
getTodoItems {
message
id
dateCreated
dateDue
}
}
`
});
const { data } = response;
expect(data).toMatchObject({
data: {
getTodoItems: [
{
message: expect.any(String),
id: expect.any(String),
dateCreated: expect.any(String),
dateDue: expect.any(String)
} // There needs to be unlimited additional items here
]
}
})
});
});
I have been looking throught the docs and I even tried nesting the expectations but I can't seem to get the desired response. Let me know what yo think or if I can clarify in any way.

Answer 1

I figured out the best way for me to do it. I would love to hear better answers. I wrote a function within the scope of the test as a jest.fn and then I called it. In that function, I made custom checks to parse the data that was received in the response. From there I added an expect function with the 'toHaveReturnedWith' method to see what the response of my custom function was and finishing out the test.
const addTodoResponse = jest.fn(() => {
// Custom parsing and check here
// Returns true or false
});
addTodoResponse();
expect(addTodoResponse).toHaveReturnedWith(true);
Are there better ways to do this out there?