spyOn getter only works for static getters and not for instance getters

🐛 Bug Report

If I try to spy on a getter with

spyOn(instance,‘foo’,‘get’).and.returnValue(false);

I get the error

 <spyOn> : foo property does not exist
    Usage: spyOn(<object>, <methodName>)

      22 |     var instance = new MyClass();
      23 | 
    > 24 |     spyOn(instance,'foo','get').and.returnValue(false);
         |     ^
      25 |     expect(instance.foo).toBe(false);
      26 | 
      27 | });

      at SpyRegistry._spyOnProperty (node_modules/jest-jasmine2/build/jasmine/spyRegistry.js:191:15)
      at Object.<anonymous> (test/tools/wizard/demo.test.js:24:5)

To Reproduce

Here are two examples, one for a static property and one for an instance property. The first test works. The second fails.

it('static getter', ()=>{

    class MyClass {
        static get foo(){
            return true;
        }
    }

    spyOn(MyClass,'foo','get').and.returnValue(false);
    expect(MyClass.foo).toBe(false);

});

it('non-static getter', ()=>{

    class MyClass {
        get foo(){
            return true;
        }
    }

    var instance = new MyClass();

    spyOn(instance,'foo','get').and.returnValue(false);
    expect(instance.foo).toBe(false);

});

My babel-setting inside package.json are:

"babel": {
    "presets": [
      [
        "@babel/preset-env",
        {
          "targets": {
            "node": "current"
          }
        }
      ],
      "@babel/preset-react"
    ]
  },

Expected behavior

The instance property “foo” should be found and the second test should work, too.

envinfo

npx: installed 1 in 2.149s

  System:
    OS: Windows 10 10.0.17763
    CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz
  Binaries:
    Node: 12.13.1 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
    Yarn: 1.22.0 - C:\Program Files (x86)\Yarn\bin\yarn.CMD
    npm: 6.12.1 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD
  npmPackages:
    jest: 25.1.0 => 25.1.0

related

https://github.com/facebook/jest/issues/8137 https://github.com/facebook/jest/issues/5746 https://jestjs.io/docs/en/jest-object.html#jestspyonobject-methodname-accesstype

Workaround

Inststead of

spyOn(instance,'foo','get').and.returnValue(false);

I am able to use

Object.defineProperty(instance, 'foo', { get(){ return false; } });

[lennerd]

Quite unpleasant bug when working with Mobx and TypeScript. I’m currently working around this by setting the property directly and ignoring the typescript error for now:

// @ts-ignore
instance.foo = false;

[adnan-razzaq]

any progress on it? This workaround seems not to work for me