slush-y/generators/client/test/templates/base/tests/_.controller.test.js

A slush generator for Best Practices with AngularJS Fullstack applications.

'use strict';

(function() {
  // <%= names.humanized %> Controller Spec
  describe('<%= names.humanized %> Controller Tests', function() {
    // Initialize global variables
    var <%= names.classed %>Controller,
      scope,
      $httpBackend,
      $stateParams,
      $location;

    // The $resource service augments the response object with methods for updating and deleting the resource.
    // If we were to use the standard toEqual matcher, our tests would fail because the test values would not match
    // the responses exactly. To solve the problem, we define a new toEqualData Jasmine matcher.
    // When the toEqualData matcher compares two objects, it takes only object properties into
    // account and ignores methods.
    beforeEach(function() {
      jasmine.addMatchers({
        toEqualData: function(util, customEqualityTesters) {
          return {
            compare: function(actual, expected) {
              return {
                pass: angular.equals(actual, expected)
              };
            }
          };
        }
      });
    });

    // Then we can start by loading the main application module
    beforeEach(module(ApplicationConfiguration.applicationModuleName));

    // The injector ignores leading and trailing underscores here (i.e. _$httpBackend_).
    // This allows us to inject a service but then attach it to a variable
    // with the same name as the service.
    beforeEach(inject(function($controller, $rootScope, _$location_, _$stateParams_, _$httpBackend_) {
      // Set a new global scope
      scope = $rootScope.$new();

      // Point global variables to injected services
      $stateParams = _$stateParams_;
      $httpBackend = _$httpBackend_;
      $location = _$location_;

      // Initialize the <%= names.humanized %> controller.
      <%= names.classed %>Controller = $controller('<%= names.classed %>Controller', {
        $scope: scope
      });
    }));

    it('Should do some controller test', inject(function() {
      // The test logic
      // ...
    }));
  });
}());