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

const spy = spyOn(component, 'privateMethod');
expect(spy).toHaveBeenCalled();

To avoid lint warnings regarding object access via string literals, create a local constant of the spy object.