AngularJS + Jasmine: Comparing objects

Question

I\'m just starting out writing tests for my AngularJS app and am doing so in Jasmine.

Here are the relevant code snippets

ClientController:

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Answer 1

Long story short: add angular.equals as a jasmine matcher.

beforeEach(function(){
  this.addMatchers({
    toEqualData: function(expected) {
      return angular.equals(this.actual, expected);
    }
  });
});

So, then you can use it as follows:

it('should preselect first client in array', function() {
    //this passes:
    expect(scope.selected.client).toEqualData(RESPONSE[0]);

    //this fails:
    expect(scope.selected.client).toEqual(RESPONSE[0]);
});