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Shallow Render has everything wrapped in ForwardRef #2190

@gregkerzhner

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@gregkerzhner

Current behavior

This is with react native. When I use shallow rendering with enzyme, all components seem to be wrapped in a forwardRef. For example, if I do this in a test

    const wrapper = shallow(
      <TestView/>
    );
    console.log(wrapper.debug())

where TestView is

export const TestView: FC<PropType> = (props: PropType) => {
  return (
    <Text>Hello World</Text>
  );
};

The resulting output is

 <ForwardRef(Text)>
    Hello World
 </ForwardRef(Text)>

The problem with this is that you cannot do wrapper.find("Text"), and instead have to do wrapper.find('ForwardRef(Text') which is a lot less clear and seems fragile.

Expected behavior

I would expect the component to be just

 <Text>
    Hello World
 </Text>

Your environment

React Native 0.59.5

API

  • shallow
  • mount
  • render

Version

library version
enzyme 3.6.0
react 16.8.6
react-dom 16.0.6
react-test-renderer 16.8.6
adapter (below)

Adapter

  • enzyme-adapter-react-16
  • enzyme-adapter-react-16.3
  • enzyme-adapter-react-16.2
  • enzyme-adapter-react-16.1
  • enzyme-adapter-react-15
  • enzyme-adapter-react-15.4
  • enzyme-adapter-react-14
  • enzyme-adapter-react-13
  • enzyme-adapter-react-helper
  • others ( )

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