AngularJS - How to test if a function is called from within another function?

Question

I\'m trying to get started with karma-jasmine and I\'m wondering why this test fails:

it(\"should call fakeFunction\", function() {
    spyOn(controller, \'a         


        

Answer 1

I just came across this problem myself. The previous answer by @Vadim has the right principles but I don't think everything was very clear. In my case, I am trying to call a public function on a service from within another function. Here are the relevant snippets:

Service:

angular.module('myApp').factory('myService', function() {

    function doSomething() {
      service.publicMethod();
    }

    function publicMethod(){
      // Do stuff
    }

    var service = {
      publicMethod: publicMethod
    };

    return service;
});

Test:

it('calls the public method when doing something', function(){
  spyOn(service, 'publicMethod');

  // Run stuff to trigger doSomething()

  expect(service.publicMethod).toHaveBeenCalled();
});

The key here is that the function being tested needs to be calling the same reference as the public function that is being spy'd on.