How to unit test angularjs controller with $location service

Answer 1

I prefer to mock location and services as then it's a unit (not integration) test:

'use strict';
describe('flightController', function () {
  var scope;
  var searchService;
  var location;

  beforeEach(module('app'));
  beforeEach(inject(function ($controller, $rootScope) {
    scope = $rootScope.$new();
    mockSearchService();
    mockLocation();
    createController($controller);
  }));

  it('changes location to month page', function () {
    searchService.flightToUrl.and.returnValue('Spain/Ukraine/December/1');
    scope.showMonth();
    expect(location.url).toHaveBeenCalledWith('search/month/Spain/Ukraine/December/1');
  });

  function mockSearchService() {
    searchService = jasmine.createSpyObj('searchService', ['flightToUrl']);
  }

  function mockLocation() {
    location = jasmine.createSpyObj('location', ['url']);
  }

  function createController($controller) {
    $controller('flightController', {
      $scope: scope,
      searchService: searchService,
      $location: location
    });
  }
});

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