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Tests for structural directive fail with "was not found in test template"

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First of all, I’d like to thank you for creating such a great library! It already saved us loads of time!

Issue details:

When testing structural directives with shallow-render it tests fail with “Error: <DirectiveType> was not found in test template”

Steps to reproduce:

Modified official stackblits - https://stackblitz.com/edit/shallow-render-dnonds?file=examples/directive-only.spec.ts

Findings: I cloned the source code. Exception is thrown in rendering.ts on line 22. It seems that the code on line 19 this.fixture.debugElement.query(By.directive(this._setup.testComponent)); returns a null object.

I’d be happy to help to resolve the issue if you can point to the right direction.

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:5 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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getsafcommented, Jul 9, 2018

Hey, just wanted to let you know, I haven’t forgotten about this. It took a little while, but I have a very clean solution for this. It’s coming in the next release.

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mihalcancommented, Jul 16, 2018

Thanks a lot, I’ll check it out.

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