Protractor and angular manual bootstrap

I’m having a problem when running protractor 0.8 and having troubles running protractor on our app that is manually bootstrapped.

Here are some snippets revealing the relevant parts of the application and setup: index.html:

 <script type="text/javascript" data-main="js/main" src="js/libraries/require.js"></script>

js/main.js:

require({
    shim: {
        .... snip ..
            }
           }, 
  ['require', ..... ], function(require) {
    return require(['bootstrap']);

bootstrap.js:

var appElm = $('html');
appElm.addClass('ng-app'); // this
angular.bootstrap(document, ['app']);

This works in practice and Angular is started in a correct way. When I view the html source I cannot see the ng-app attribute appearing on the html element. May be Protractor also fails to do so?

I use the protractor sample configuration and changed the relevant values to suit my app:

specs: [
    '../src/test/javascript/protractorSpec/*_spec.js',
  ],
  baseUrl: 'http://localhost:8080/Viewer/',
  rootElement: 'html',

Sample test:

describe('List SMC Charts', function() {
        var ptor= protractor.getInstance();

        beforeEach(function() {
          ptor.get('#/smcChart');
        });

        it('list, no filter', function() {
          var selectOption = ptor.findElement(ptor.By.input("selectOption"));
        });
});

When I run this test two errors appear:

 1) List SMC Charts   list, no filter
   Message:
     Error: Angular could not be found on the page http://localhost:8080/Viewer/#/smcChart
   Stacktrace:
     Error: Angular could not be found on the page http://localhost:8080/Viewer/#/smcChart
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/protractor/lib/protractor.js:392:15

and

2) List SMC Charts list, no filter
   Message:
     TypeError: Cannot call method 'input' of undefined
   Stacktrace:
     TypeError: Cannot call method 'input' of undefined
    at null.<anonymous> (/Users/........//Viewer/src/test/javascript/protractorSpec/some_spec.js:9:55)

The first error seems to be the most important one, but the last error is also quite interesting. It appears to me that the line: ptor.By.input is not working.

Any ideas?

[miguelrincon]

@sjelin What’s the documented way to support manual bootstrapping? I can’t find the relevant information for protractor 5.0.

[bcherny]

@juliemr With Angular 1.5, manually bootstrapping is the preferred way to bootstrap. Is there blessed protractor support on the way?