AngularJS Promise Callback Not Trigged in JasmineJS Test

Question

Problem Intro

I\'m trying to unit test an AngularJS service that wraps the Facebook JavaScript SDK FB object; however, the test isn\'t working, and I have

Answer 1

From what I can see the problem of why your code isnt working is that you havent injected $scope. Michiels answer works cuz he injects $rootScope and call the digest cycle. However your $apply() is a higher level was of invoking the digest cycle so it will work as well... BUT! only if you inject it into the service itself.

But i think a service doesn't create a $scope child so you need to inject $rootScope itself - as far as I know only controllers allow you to inject $scope as its their job to create well a $scope. But this is a bit of speculation, I am not 100 percent sure about it. I would try however with $rootScope as you know the app has a $rootScope from the creation of ng-app.

'use strict';

angular.module('app.services', [])
  .value('fbsdk', window.FB)
  .factory('Facebook', ['fbsdk', '$q', '$rootScope' function (FB, $q, $rootScope) { //<---No $rootScope injection

    //If you want to use a child scope instead then --> var $scope = $rootScope.$new();
    // Otherwise just use $rootScope

    FB.init({
      appId: 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx',
      cookie: false,
      status: false,
      xfbml: false
    });

    function getUserLoginStatus ($scope) { //<--- Use of scope here, but use $rootScope instead
      var deferred = $q.defer();
      // This is where the deferred promise is resolved. Notice that I call
      // `$scope.$apply()` at the end to let Angular know to trigger the
      // `then()` callback in the caller of `getUserLoginStatus()`.
      FB.getLoginStatus(function (response) {
        if (response.authResponse) {
          deferred.resolve(true);
        } else {
          deferred.resolve(false)
        }
        $scope.$apply(); // <-- Tell Angular to trigger `then()`. USE $rootScope instead!
      });

      return deferred.promise;
    }

    return {
      getUserLoginStatus: getUserLoginStatus
    };
  }]);