Loading a mock JSON file within Karma+AngularJS test

Question

I have an AngularJS app set up with tests using Karma+Jasmine. I have a function I want to test that takes a large JSON object, converts it to a format that\'s more consumab

Answer 1

looks like your solution is the right one but there are 2 things i don't like about it:

• it uses jasmine
• it requires new learning curve

i just ran into this problem and had to resolve it quickly as i had no time left for the deadline, and i did the following

my json resource was huge, and i couldn't copy paste it into the test so i had to keep it a separate file - but i decided to keep it as javascript rather than json, and then i simply did:

var someUniqueName = ... the json ...

and i included this into karma conf includes..

i can still mock a backend http response if needed with it.

$httpBackend.whenGET('/some/path').respond(someUniqueName);

i could also write a new angular module to be included here and then change the json resource to be something like

angular.module('hugeJsonResource', []).constant('SomeUniqueName', ... the json ... );

and then simply inject SomeUniqueName into the test, which looks cleaner.

perhaps even wrap it in a service

angular.module('allTestResources',[]).service('AllTestResources', function AllTestResources( SomeUniqueName , SomeOtherUniqueName, ... ){
   this.resource1 = SomeUniqueName;
   this.resource2 = SomeOtherUniqueName; 
})

this solutions was faster to me, just as clean, and did not require any new learning curve. so i prefer this one.