Faking a Angular Factory in a directive in jasmine - unit-testing

Question

Question: How do I fake my pointFactory so I can Jasmine Unit Test it.
I have the Following Directive.
It takes the html sends it to a factory and the uses the response for some logic
CommonDirectives.directive('TextEnrichment',['PointFactory','appSettings', function (pointFactory,settings) {
return {
restrict: 'A',
link : function (scope, element, attrs) {
var text = element.html();
pointFactory.getPoints(text).then(function(response){
})}}}]);
So far my unit tests looks like this, however it doesn't work since I'm not injecting the factory.
beforeEach(module('app.common.directives'));
beforeEach(function () {
fakeFactory = {
getPoints: function () {
deferred = q.defer();
deferred.resolve({data:
[{"Text":"Some text"}]
});
return deferred.promise;
}
};
getPointsSpy = spyOn(fakeFactory, 'getPoints')
getPointsSpy.andCallThrough();
});
beforeEach(inject(function(_$compile_, _$rootScope_,_$controller_){
$compile = _$compile_;
$rootScope = _$rootScope_;
}));
it('Factory to have been Called', function () {
var element = $compile('<div data-text-enrichment=""> Text </div>')($rootScope)
expect(getPointsSpy.callCount).toBe('1');
});
Update
Following advice from Felipe Skinner I have updated the test with the following
beforeEach(function(){
module(function($provide){
$provide.factory('PointFactory',getPointsSpy)
})
});
However I get the following error:
TypeError: 'undefined' is not a function (evaluating
'pointFactory.getPoints(text)')

Answer 1

You can use the $provide to inject your controller dependencies.
Here's my beforeEach for example:
describe('MyCtrl', function() {
var $controller,
$scope,
$httpBackend,
windowMock,
registerHtmlServiceMock,
mixPanelServiceMock,
toastMock;
beforeEach(function() {
windowMock = { navigator: {} };
registerHtmlServiceMock = {};
mixPanelServiceMock = jasmine.createSpyObj('mixpanel', ['track']);
toastMock = jasmine.createSpyObj('toast', ['error']);
module('myModule');
module(function($provide) {
$provide.value('$window', windowMock);
$provide.value('RegisterHtmlService', registerHtmlServiceMock);
$provide.value('MixPanelService', mixPanelServiceMock);
$provide.value('ToastService', toastMock);
});
inject(function(_$controller_, _$rootScope_, _$httpBackend_) {
$scope = _$rootScope_.$new();
$controller = _$controller_('CourseSelectionCtrl', { $scope: $scope });
$httpBackend = _$httpBackend_;
});
});
// my test cases
});
I haven't tried mocking a function that returns some value. Those two mocks (mixpanel-track and toast-error) are for "void" functions.
UPDATE:
Try changing the previous $provide with this type of injection then.
Change from this:
module(function($provide) {
$provide.value('$window', windowMock);
$provide.value('RegisterHtmlService', registerHtmlServiceMock);
$provide.value('MixPanelService', mixPanelServiceMock);
});
inject(function(_$controller_, _$rootScope_, _$httpBackend_) {
$scope = _$rootScope_.$new();
$controller = _$controller_('CourseSelectionCtrl', { $scope: $scope });
$httpBackend = _$httpBackend_;
});
To this:
beforeEach(inject(function(_$controller_, _$rootScope_, _$httpBackend_) {
mixPanelService = mixPanelServiceMock;
$scope = _$rootScope_.$new();
$controller = _$controller_('MyCtrl', { $scope: $scope, MixPanelService: mixPanelService });
$httpBackend = _$httpBackend_;
}));
The rest of the code should be the same, except for that. Let me know if this works