How do I test Observable.timer?

Posted At : April 18, 2018 9:00 AM | Posted By : Jeffry Houser
Related Categories: Professional, Jasmine, Karma

This was trickier than I thought, which is why I'm writing a blog post about it. I'm writing some code which uses an FakeAsync Zone nor RxJS TestScheduler.

The timer() call returns an Observable, so I decided to create one myself which gave me complete control.

let timerObserver :Observer<any>;
beforeEach(() => {
spyOn(Observable, 'timer').and.returnValue(Observable.create(
(observer =>{
timerObserver = observer;
})
));
});

I created an Observer object. This is the internal logic that makes the Observable resolve itself. I used spyOn() inside a beforeEach() to have the unit testing framework return my own Observable and ignore the library code. I save the observer for later usage.

Now, when I'm testing I can resolve the timer immediately:

it('Some Test',()=>{
// do stuff if needed

// trigger the fake timer using the Observer reference
timerObserver.next('');
timerObserver.complete();

//
expect(somethingToHappenAfterTimerCompletes).toHaveBeenCalled();
});

I spent more time banging my head on this than I thought I would, and I hope this helps you.

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Running Unit Tests from IntelliJ

Posted At : March 31, 2018 9:25 PM | Posted By : Jeffry Houser
Related Categories: Professional, Jasmine, IntelliJ, Karma

I put together this screencast about running Unit Tests using IntelliJ.

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Unhandled rejection Error: Not running at Server.close (net.js:1236:11) with Karma and Jasmine

Posted At : December 20, 2016 6:44 PM | Posted By : Jeffry Houser
Related Categories: JavaScript, AngularJS, Karma

I'm writing some addendum to my LearnWith AngularJS training series. One of those will detail how to unit test an AngularJS web application. I'm setting something up with Gulp, Karma, and Jasmine.

Trying to get this running gave me a full day of this error:

Unhandled rejection Error: Not running
at Server.close (net.js:1236:11)
at C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\lib\server.js:388:17
at tryCatcher (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\util.js:16:23)
at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:510:31)
at Promise._settlePromise (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:567:18)
at Promise._settlePromise0 (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:612:10)
at Promise._settlePromises (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\promise.js:691:18)
at Async._drainQueue (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:138:16)
at Async._drainQueues (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:148:10)
at Async.drainQueues (C:\Users\jhouser\Documents\career\clients\ActiveClients\LearnWith\Development\www_codearchive\Scripts_Test\node_modules\karma\node_modules\bluebird\js\release\async.js:17:14)
at process._tickCallback (node.js:419:13)

There is a lot of Google hits for this error; but none actually relate to my issue, so I hope this helps someone.

After much head pounding and experimentation; I finally deciphered the cause. When creating the Karma config file, make sure that your files are put in proper dependency order. Simply put; I was listing the AngularJS library at the end of the file list instead of the beginning, so the code didn't know how to create angular modules, services, or other elements, because that Angular library wasn't defined yet.

Changing the order of dependencies solved the issue and I can run unit tests as expected.

I hope that helps someone.

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