Protractor does not wait to resolve promises on routes

Hey,

I’m having a few issues getting protractor to wait for my dependencies to load in the route.

The basic code I have is this (which works fine in Angular itself)

$routeProvider.when('/login, {
    templateUrl: 'template.html',
    controller: 'LoginCtrl',
    resolve: {
         dependencies: function($q, $rootScope) {
          var def = $q.defer();
          yepnope([
            {
                load: [
                    'dependencies.js',
                ],
                complete: function () {
                    $rootScope.$apply(function () {
                        def.resolve();
                    });
                }
            }
        ]);
        return def.promise;
        }
     }
 });

Protractor doesn’t wait for the route to resolve and doesn’t even display any content from the route. If the resolve dependency is removed the route successfully loads (but the test fails as the dependency isn’t loaded).

I’ve tried it with $timeout testing and that works fine, and as this isn’t a $http request, is there something I’m missing, or is this just not supported?

Thanks

[gkalpak]

@juliemr , I think @sjelin meant angular/angular.js#14159.

[Smolations]

@yxh10 That is not a long-term solution. Protractor should be aware of the views it’s rendering, as well as when the DOM is ready. Using browser.wait in that fashion may solve the immediate problem, but if it happens across many tests, the spec files would be littered with all of those statements. Not only that, but how would one choose an appropriate timeToWaitInMilliseconds? Having multiple blocks such as the one you have above would significantly slow down testing for larger applications.