Promises not resolving with Jasmine/Karma test

Promises resolve fine when run normally, but don’t resolve at all when run as part of a karma/jasmine test. .then calls (even in the controller) don’t run.

Minimal example demonstrating the problem

[katowulf]

Since Angular uses mocks, pretty much everything has to be flushed by hand. AngularFire depends on $timeout internally, so that has to get flushed any time an angularFire op is expected. Most of the AngularFire tests do something like this:

var $timeout;
beforeEach(inject(function(_$timeout_) {
     $timeout = _$timeout_;
});

it('should be flushed', function() {
     var ref = new Firebase(URL);
     var data = $firebase(ref);
     $timeout.flush();
     var spy = jasmine.createSpy('test flush');
     ref.$add({foo: 'bar'}, spy);
     $timeout.flush();
     // if you are using MockFirebase
     // Firebase.flush();
    expect(spy.callCount).toBe(1);     
});

That may help a bit.

[SomeKittens]

Thanks guys. This helped my understanding a lot. Looks like I’ve got some hackarounds to code.