Jasmine 2.0 how to wait real time before running an expectation

Question

I am trying to test the postMessage API as there is a slight delay before message are receive i can not run expectation right after sending a message.

In jasmine 1.3

Answer 1

Rather than waiting some number of milliseconds, jasmine has hooks to wait until a function returns. This page has some good example, and I've copied one here to show a specific way of testing ajax callbacks. Just add a spy as a callback to your function and wait for that callback to be executed.

it("should make a real AJAX request", function () {
    var callback = jasmine.createSpy();
    makeAjaxCall(callback);
    waitsFor(function() {
        return callback.callCount > 0;
    }, "The Ajax call timed out.", 5000);

    runs(function() {
        expect(callback).toHaveBeenCalled();
    });
});

EDIT:

Since you're testing that your application makes a specific callback, you can just replace that callback with a spy instead of creating a new one like I did.

Jasmine 2.0 added a "done" style callback, so you should be able to do something like: (I haven't tested the syntax of this but hopefully a good start)

it("should make an ajax callback with jasmine 2.0", function(done)) {
    // this is the object you are testing - assume it has the ajax method you want to call and the method that gets called when the ajax method is finished
    var myObject
    spyOn(myObject, "callback").andCallFake(function() {
        done();        
    });    
    myObject.makeAjaxCall();    
}