Why is Karma refusing to serve my JSON fixture (which I'd like to use in my jasmine / angularjs tests)

Question

As indicated in this stackoverflow answer, it looks like Karma will serve JSON fixtures. However, I\'ve spent too many hours trying to get it to work in my environment. Re

Answer 1

I also needed json fixtures in my karma test suite. I ended up just using the html2js preprocessor with json files as well as html.

karma.conf.js:

module.exports = function (config) {
  config.set({
    frameworks: ["jasmine"],
    files: [
        '**/*.js',
        '**/*.html',
        '**/*.json',
        '**/*.spec.js'
    ],
    plugins: [
        'karma-html2js-preprocessor'
    ]
    preprocessors: {
        '**/*.html': ['html2js'],
        '**/*.json': ['html2js']
    }
  });
};

Then it is just a matter of getting the json from the __html__ global.

e.g.

var exampleJson = __html__['example.json'];
var jsonObj = JSON.parse(exampleJson);
var exampleHtml = __html__['example.html'];
document.body.innerHTML = exampleHtml;