Unit test Karma/jasmine: error while loading json language files

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Current behavior while running the unit tests with angular-cli ( command ng-test) , my tests fail because the loader of Karma doesn t handle correcterly the /i18n/*.json files. The following exception is returned:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token : at src/assets/i18n/en.json

Expected/desired behavior This behavior occurs only when I try to run unit tests. Otherwise my application works perfectly fine. ng2-translate should be compatible with karma/jasmine and we shouldn t get exception while loading *json files

Reproduction of the problem If the current behavior is a bug or you can illustrate your feature request better with an example, please provide the steps to reproduce and if possible a minimal demo of the problem via https://plnkr.co or similar (you can use this template as a starting point: http://plnkr.co/edit/tpl:btpW3l0jr5beJVjohy1Q).

run a karma unit test on a component containing the translate filter

What is the expected behavior?

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior? I cannot test anymore my components which use ng translate

Please tell us about your environment:

• ng2-translate version: 3.1.3

• Angular version: 2.1.0

• Browser: [Chrome]

• Language: [TypeScript 2.0]

[mmarimuthu]

Hello, can someone provide an example translate application with unit test (i.e., test the translated values from json).

[ocombe]

That’s true. I should add a test with that and it could serve as a documentation.