I am encountering difficulties while trying to access my controller within a directive that I am attempting to unit test using jasmine and karma testrunner. The structure of the directive is as follows:
directive
angular.module('Common.accountSearch',['ngRoute'])
.directive('accountSearch', [function() {
return {
controllerAs: 'ctrl',
controller: function ($scope, $element, $routeParams, $http) {
this.setAccount = function () {
var response = { AccountId : $scope.ctrl.searchedAccount.AccountId }
$scope.callback(response)
}
this.getAccounts = function(searchText){
return $http.get('/api/CRMAccounts', {
params: {
retrievalLimit: 10,
search: searchText
}
}).then(function(response){
return response.data;
});
}
},
scope : {
config : '=',
values : '=',
callback : '='
},
templateUrl : '/common/components/account-search/account-search.html',
restrict : 'EAC'
}
}]);
This is the current state of the test case file, where I assume everything is correctly set up (hopefully):
test case file:
describe("Account search directive logic tests", function (){
var element,$scope,scope,controller,template
beforeEach(module("Common.accountSearch"))
beforeEach(inject( function (_$compile_, _$rootScope_,_$controller_,$templateCache) {
template = $templateCache.get("components/account-search/account-search.html")
$compile = _$compile_;
$rootScope = _$rootScope_;
$controller = _$controller_;
scope = $rootScope.$new();
element = $compile(template)(scope)
ctrl = element.controller
scope.$digest();
// httpBackend = _$httpBackend_;
}));
it(" sets the account and calls back.", inject(function () {
console.log(ctrl)
expect(ctrl).toBeDefined()
}));
//httpBackend.flush()
});
Upon printing the controller of the directive to the console, I receive an ambiguous message:
LOG: function (arg1, arg2) { ... }
I am unable to access any functions or properties within the directive as they are all returning "undefined". What could be the issue here?