Test pipe with dependencies on services

Question

I have a pipe that sanatises HTML as below:

import { Pipe, PipeTransform } from \'@angular/core\';
import { DomSanitizer } from \'@angular/platform-browser\';

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Answer 1

Because of the DI in your pipe, you need to configure a test environment (test bed) to resolve the dependency:

import { BrowserModule, DomSanitizer } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { inject, TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';

describe('SanitiseHtmlPipe', () => {
  beforeEach(() => {
    TestBed
      .configureTestingModule({
        imports: [
          BrowserModule
        ]
      });
  });

  it('create an instance', inject([DomSanitizer], (domSanitizer: DomSanitizer) => {
    let pipe = new SanitiseHtmlPipe(domSanitizer);
    expect(pipe).toBeTruthy();
  })); 
});

Answer 2

just in case anyone would like to reuse the constructor of the Pipe, you can use the TestBed to acheive the same result :

  let pipe: SafeHtmlPipe;
  let sanitized: DomSanitizer

  beforeEach(async() => {
    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      providers: [DomSanitizer]
    });
    sanitized = TestBed.get(DomSanitizer);
    pipe = new SafeHtmlPipe(sanitized);
  });

  it('create an instance', () => {
    expect(pipe).toBeTruthy();
  });

Answer 3

In case you want to mock the whole providers and don't wanna use the constructor, this is how I do it (with Jest but replace the spy with your regular jasmine.createSpyObj)

spec

describe("MyPipe", () => {
  let pipe: MyPipe;
  const myServiceSpy = { myFunction: jest.fn() };

  beforeEach(() => {
    jest.clearAllMocks();
    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      providers: [
        MyPipe,
        {
          provide: MyService,
          useValue: myServiceSpy
        }
      ]
    });

    pipe = TestBed.inject(myPipe);
  });

  it("create an instance", () => {
    expect(pipe).toBeTruthy();
  });
});

pipe

@Pipe({
  name: "myPipe"
})
export class MyPipe implements PipeTransform {
  constructor(private readonly myService: MyService) {}

  transform(value: Item): boolean {
    // stuff with your service
    return true;
  }
}