How to create and manipulate promises in Protractor?

Question

I want to use the Node Http module to call my server directly in order to set up my Protractor tests. Http is callback based and I want to turn that into promises.

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Answer 1

Protractor uses WebDriver's promises and exposes that API globally on 'protractor'. So you should be able to do

var deferred = protractor.promise.defer();
return deferred.promise;

For the full WebDriverJS Promise API, see the code at https://code.google.com/p/selenium/source/browse/javascript/webdriver/promise.js