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Angular 2 Observable Service Integration Test

I would like to create an integration test and hit my actual service (not a mock). How would I do that in Angular 2?

Here is what I have for my observable service:

import { Injectable } from '@angular/core';
import { Http, Response, RequestOptions, Headers } from '@angular/http';

import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/do';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/catch';
import 'rxjs/add/operator/map';
import 'rxjs/add/observable/throw';

import { UserDetail } from '../models/user-detail.model';

export class GetUserDetailService {
  private _userDetailUrl : string = 'http://ourserver/api/GetCurrentUserDetail';

  constructor(private _http: Http) { }

  getUserDetail(): Observable<UserDetail> {
        return this._http.get(this._userDetailUrl)
        .map((response: Response) => <UserDetail> response.json())
        .do(data => console.log('All: ' +  JSON.stringify(data)))
        .catch(this.handleError);
  }

  private handleError(error: Response) {
      console.error(error);
      return Observable.throw(error.json().error || 'Server error');
  }
}

How to I ensure that an object is returned from the service?

// Third party imports
import { Observable } from 'rxjs/Observable';
import { HttpModule } from '@angular/http';

// Our imports
import { GetUserDetailService } from './get-user-detail.service';
import { UserDetail } from '../models/user-detail.model';

describe('GetUserDetailService', () => {

  beforeEach(() => {
    // What do I put here?
  });

  it('should get the user detail', () => {
    // What do I put here?
  });
});
about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo
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As shown in this example, a way to do XHR integration tests in Angular is to just use HttpModule without MockBackend:

describe('GetUserDetailService', () => {
  beforeEach(() => {
    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      provide: [GetUserDetailService],
      imports: [HttpModule]
    });
  });

  it('should get user detail', async(inject([Http, GetUserDetailService], (http, svc) => {
    spyOn(http, 'get').and.callThrough();

    svc.getUserDetail().subscribe(
      (userDetail: UserDetail) => {
        expect(userDetail).toEqual(...);
      }
    );

    expect(http.get).toHaveBeenCalledWith(...);
  })));

  it('shouldnot get user detail', async(inject([Http, GetUserDetailService], (http, svc) => {
    spyOn(http, 'get').and.callThrough();
    spyOn(svc, 'handleError').and.callThrough();
    svc._userDetailUrl = 'wrong url';

    svc.getUserDetail().subscribe(
      (userDetail: UserDetail) => { throw new Error('should fail') },
      (error) => {
        expect(svc.handleError).toHaveBeenCalledWith(...);
        expect(error).toEqual(...);
      }
    );

    expect(http.get).toHaveBeenCalledWith('wrong url');
  })));
});

fakeAsync helper can't be used in really asynchronous test (there should be be an error if is used), so it is async.

The first test fails automatically if there was an error in observable, so it doesn't have to be caught in subscribe.

about 4 years ago · Santiago Trujillo Report
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