refs or ReactDOM.findNode don't work with snapshot testing?

[ryanseddon]

This may be in issue in react but I cam across this while trying out snapshot testing on a small project with jest. So I'm creating an issue here...

Component

import React from 'react';

export default class Link extends React.Component {
  render() {
    return (
      <a
        ref={a => this._a = a}
        href={this.props.page || '#'}>
        {this.props.children}
      </a>
    );
  }
}

Test

'use strict'

import React from 'react';
import Link from '../Link';
import renderer from 'react/lib/ReactTestRenderer';

describe('Link', () => {

  it('renders correctly', () => {
    const tree = renderer.create(
      <Link page="foo" />
    ).toJSON();

    expect(tree).toMatchSnapshot();
  });
});

jest stack trace

 FAIL  __tests__/Link-test.js (2.148s)
● Link › it renders correctly
  - TypeError: component.getPublicInstance is not a function
        at attachRef (node_modules/react/lib/ReactRef.js:20:19)
        at Object.ReactRef.attachRefs (node_modules/react/lib/ReactRef.js:42:5)
        at attachRefs (node_modules/react/lib/ReactReconciler.js:26:12)
        at CallbackQueue._assign.notifyAll (node_modules/react/lib/CallbackQueue.js:67:22)
        at ReactTestReconcileTransaction.ON_DOM_READY_QUEUEING.close (node_modules/react/lib/ReactTestReconcileTransaction.js:37:26)
        at ReactTestReconcileTransaction.Mixin.closeAll (node_modules/react/lib/Transaction.js:204:25)
        at ReactTestReconcileTransaction.Mixin.perform (node_modules/react/lib/Transaction.js:151:16)
        at batchedMountComponentIntoNode (node_modules/react/lib/ReactTestMount.js:61:27)
        at ReactDefaultBatchingStrategyTransaction.Mixin.perform (node_modules/react/lib/Transaction.js:138:20)
        at Object.ReactDefaultBatchingStrategy.batchedUpdates (node_modules/react/lib/ReactDefaultBatchingStrategy.js:63:19)

Removing the ref will make th test pass I also tried ReactDOM.findDOMNode which has a slightly different error Invariant Violation: getNodeFromInstance: Invalid argument..

[cpojer]

Yes this is indeed a React issue.

Please comment on facebook/react#7148

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