Unit testing an AngularJS (Smart Table) directive - unit-testing

Question

I am working with "Smart Table" and will be using their example plugin where a checkbox selects a row in a table: http://lorenzofox3.github.io/smart-table-website/#section-custom
I am writing a unit test for this directive, code below, this is failing. Has anyone written a unit test for this code or could help direct me as to where I am going wrong and if I am actually testing the correct logic?
Directive:
myApp.directive('csSelect', function () {
return {
require: '^stTable',
template: '',
scope: {
row: '=csSelect'
},
link: function (scope, element, attr, ctrl) {
element.bind('change', function (evt) {
scope.$apply(function () {
ctrl.select(scope.row, 'multiple');
});
});
scope.$watch('row.isSelected', function (newValue, oldValue) {
if (newValue === true) {
element.parent().addClass('st-selected');
} else {
element.parent().removeClass('st-selected');
}
});
}
};
});
Unit test:
describe('csSelect',function(){
var scope, element, attr, ctrl;
beforeEach(module('myApp.selectorresult'));
beforeEach(inject(function($rootScope, $compile) {
elm = angular.element(
'<td cs-select="row" class="ng-isolate-scope">' +
'<input type="checkbox">' +
'</td>');
scope = $rootScope;
$compile(elm)(scope);
scope.$digest();
}));
it('should create selectable input',function(){
console.log(elm.find('input'));
var checkbox = elm.find('input');
expect(checkbox.length).toBe(1);
});
});

Answer 1

You need to mock out the stTableController with $controllerProvider before you set up beforeEach(inject...
Check out the test spec for the pagination directive (https://github.com/lorenzofox3/Smart-Table/blob/master/test/spec/stPagination.spec.js), which also requires 'stTable'. It's a good example of how to provide the 'stTableController' with the functions you need from it.

Answer 2

For anyone still having this issue. I hope this helps.
I was struggling with this for ages. I tried mocking the stTableController, I tried adding the vendor files to the karma.conf.js files among other things but could not get any tests to pass.
It seemed that when I removed the require: '^stTable' the tests would pass no problem, but with it in, all tests would fail. I couldn't remove this as this would break my code.
So what I finally found was that all I had to do was add st-table to my element in the spec.js file.
So if my element was
var element = angular.element('<my-component></my-component');
I had to make it
var element = angular.element('<my-component st-table></my-component>');
After that, all tests were passing.