AngularJS + Jasmine: Comparing objects

Question

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

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ClientController:

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Answer 1

I just had a similar problem and implemented a custom matcher as follows, based on many approaches:

beforeEach(function() {
  this.addMatchers({
    toBeSimilarTo: function(expected) {
      function buildObject(object) {
        var built = {};
        for (var name in object) {
          if (object.hasOwnProperty(name)) {
            built[name] = object[name];
          }
        }
        return built;
      }

      var actualObject = buildObject(this.actual);
      var expectedObject = buildObject(expected);
      var notText = this.isNot ? " not" : "";

      this.message = function () {
        return "Expected " + actualObject + notText + " to be similar to " + expectedObject;
      }

      return jasmine.getEnv().equals_(actualObject, expectedObject);

    }
  });
});

and then used this way:

it("gets the right data", function() {
  expect(scope.jobs[0]).toBeSimilarTo(myJob);
});

Of course, it's a very simple matcher and doesn't support many cases, but I didn't need anything more complex than that. You can wrap the matchers in a config file.

Check this answer for a similar implementation.