Test an Angular2 Pipe that has a constructor method in Jasmine

Question

I am falling at the first hurdle testing an Angular Pipe that has a constructor.

My Pipe is as follows:

reverse.pipe.ts

import {
  Iterable         


        

Answer 1

I was very nearly there with my updated test. You do not need to provide IterableDiffers:

reverse.pipe.spec.ts

import { IterableDiffers } from '@angular/core';
import { TestBed, inject } from '@angular/core/testing';

import { ReversePipe } from './reverse.pipe';

describe('ReversePipe', () => {
  it('should create an instance', inject([ IterableDiffers ], (iterableDiffers: IterableDiffers) => {
    const pipe = new ReversePipe(iterableDiffers);

    expect(pipe).toBeTruthy();
  }));

  it('should reverse the array of type Array<number>', inject([ IterableDiffers ], (iterableDiffers: IterableDiffers) => {
    const array = [ 1, 2, 3 ];
    const pipe = new ReversePipe(iterableDiffers);

    expect(pipe.transform(array)).toEqual([ 3, 2, 1 ]);
  }));

  it('should reverse the array of type Array<string>', inject([ IterableDiffers ], (iterableDiffers: IterableDiffers) => {
    const array = [ 'apple', 'banana', 'clementine' ];
    const pipe = new ReversePipe(iterableDiffers);

    expect(pipe.transform(array)).toEqual([ 'clementine', 'banana', 'apple' ]);
  }));
});

I also noticed I had an unnecessary if statement in reverse.pipe.spec.ts:

// TODO: Throw an error if `array` isn't an Array
if (Array.isArray(array) === false) return [];

The first argument of transform would always be an Array; of course, the TypeScript compiler would throw a TypeError if the argument was anything other than an Array.

For completeness my Pipe is:

reverse.pipe.ts

import {
  IterableDiffer,
  IterableDiffers,
  Pipe,
  PipeTransform
} from '@angular/core';

@Pipe({
  name: 'reverse',
  pure: false
})
export class ReversePipe implements PipeTransform {

  private cached: Array<any>;
  private differ: IterableDiffer<Array<any>>;

  constructor(private differs: IterableDiffers) {
    this.differ = this.differs.find([]).create(null);
  }

  public transform(array: Array<any>): Array<any> {
    const changes = this.differ.diff(array);

    if (changes) this.cached = array.slice().reverse();

    return this.cached;
  }
}