How do I get $resource to resolve its promise in test environment - angular-resource

Question

I have a controller that needs to run several asynchronous methods that interact with the data on the client and make no calls to the server. I have one method working fine in the browser, but I want to drive the methods with tests and I can't get it to work in the test environment (Karma and Mocha). The reason is that the empty array that $resource.query() returns never gets populated in the test environment because the promise doesn't get resolved. Here is my beforeEach in the test suite.
beforeEach(inject(function($rootScope, $controller, scheduleService){
scope = $rootScope.$new();
sc = $controller('scheduleCtrl', {
$scope: scope, service: scheduleService
});
scope.$apply();
}));
scheduleCtrl has a property schedule that is assigned to the result of Resource.query() in it's constructor. I can see the three returned objects loaded into the MockHttpExpectation.
But when I go to run the test sc.schedule is an still an empty array, so the test fails. How do I get the Resource.query() to resolve in the test?

Answer 1

Resource.query() works with promisses, which is a assync process.
It happens that your test execute before the assynchronous request have completed and before array gets populated.
You could use $httpBackend so you can call expect after $httpBackend.flush().
Or you could retrieve the $promisse returned from Resource.query().$promisse on your test and do the expectation inside its implementation.
Ex:
$scope.promisse = Resource.query().$promisse;
sc.promisse(function(values) {
expect(values.length).not.toBe(0);
});