using Jasmines spyon upon a private method

Question

is it possible to use Jasmine unit testing framework\'s spyon method upon a classes private methods?

The documentation gives this example but can this be flexivble for a

Answer 1

Let say sayHello(text: string) is a private method. You can use the following code:

// Create a spy on it using "any"
spyOn(fakePerson, 'sayHello').and.callThrough();

// To access the private (or protected) method use [ ] operator:
expect(fakeperson['sayHello']).toHaveBeenCalledWith('your-params-to-sayhello');

• Create a spy on private method using any.
• To access the private (or protected) method use [] operator.