angular-spies

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Super easy spy setup and injection library.

If you ever wrote Angular tests, especially in TDD style (Test Driven Development), you know you need Spies (also known by their other misused name: mocks).

You need them to isolate your units (services, controllers, etc...) from their dependencies (other services).

Usually it involves tons of boilerplate code but NO MORE!

Dependencies

• Angular 1.x
• angular-mocks 1.x (same version as Angular)
• Jasmine 2.x and above (spies are jasmine.createSpy)

Installation

npm install angular-spies

or

bower install angular-spies

Usage

Define a Spy

angular.spyOnService( serviceName, [ optionalParentSpy, ...])

angular
    .spyOnService('productService')

Defining Methods

.methods( methodName, ...)

angular
    .spyOnService('productService')
    .methods('getProducts', 'saveProducts')

Inject a Spy in your test

injectSpy( serviceName ) { }

 
var productCtrl,
    productServiceSpy;
 
beforeEach( injectSpy( function(productService) {
    
    productServiceSpy = productService; 
}));
 
it ('should get products', function(){
    
    var fakeProducts = ['product1', 'product2'];
    
    productServiceSpy.getProducts.and.returnValue( fakeProducts );
    
    productCtrl.loadProducts();
    
    expect(productServiceSpy.getProducts).toHaveBeenCalled();
});
 

Async Methods (Return Promises)

.asyncMethods( methodName, ...)

angular
    .spyOnService('productService')
    .methods('someSyncMethod')
    .asyncMethods('getProducts', 'saveProducts')

Angular spies uses $q in the background to create both the promise as the return value, and exposes its deferred object, and allows you to control the promise's state.

 
it ('should get products async', function(){
    
    var fakeProducts = ['product1', 'product2'];
    
    var returnedProducts;
    
    productServiceSpy.getDeferred('getProducts').resolve( fakeProducts );
    
    productServiceSpy.getProducts().then(function (products) {
        returnedProducts = products;
    });
    
    $rootScope.flush();
    
    expect(productServiceSpy.getProducts).toHaveBeenCalled();
    
    expect(returnedProducts).toBe(fakeProducts);
    
});
 

Extending a Previously Defined Spy

Lets say for example that you have a generic spy for a data library, with all the CRUD methods defined already:

angular
    .spyOnService('dataService')
    .asyncMethods('create', 'read', 'update', 'delete')

You can use the second parameter of the spyOnService method to declare its parent spies, just add second parameter as an array of spy names you want to extend from (Like angular.module(moduleName, [depenedencies]))

angular
    .spyOnService('productService', ['dataService'])
    .asyncMethods('createProductByName')

Now the spy of productService will have 5 async methods - create, read, update, delete and createProductByName

Example Project

See the Example Project to get a quick look on how to test your controllers.

License

Copyright (c) 2015 HiRez.io

Licensed under the MIT License.