Set Authorization header to post request

1. Request:

request(app)
      .post('/api/categories')
      .send(category)
      .set({ Authorization: token })
      .end((err, res) => {
        const newCategory = res.body;

        expect(res.status).to.be.equal(200);
        expect(newCategory).to.be.equal(category);

        done();
      });

Error: Error: "value" required in setHeader("Authorization", value)

1. Request:

request(app)
      .post('/api/categories')
      .send(category)
      .setHeader('Authorization', token)
      .end((err, res) => {
        const newCategory = res.body;

        expect(res.status).to.be.equal(200);
        expect(newCategory).to.be.equal(category);

        done();
      });

Error: TypeError: (0 , _supertest2.default)(...).post(...).send(...).setHeader is not a function

How set header to post request ?

[gilbert]

Note that you have to call .set() AFTER calling .post(), not before. For example:

request(app)
  .set('Authorization', 'abc123') // DOES NOT WORK
  .post('/api')

request(app)
  .post('/api')
  .set('Authorization', 'abc123') // Works.

[mikelax]

You do want to use the .set function. You should be able to pass a single JSON object or two parameters for the key and value.

.set('Accept', 'application/json')

.set({ 'API-Key': 'foobar', Accept: 'application/json' })

In your first example I would say that there is a problem with the variable token.