TypeError: Cannot read property 'fetchData' of undefined jasmine-karma

Question

this is my first unit test in angular 7, i want to test my methode inside my service, this methode return Observable:

fetchData(chronoInfo: ALChrono): Observable<any> {
        // construct API parameters and URL
        var URL: string = this.urlDecoratorService.urlAPIDecorate("AL", "GetAccessChrono");

        var params = this.urlDecoratorService.generateParameters({
            year: chronoInfo.year,//Année
            month: chronoInfo.month,//Mois (peut être null)
            sortBy: chronoInfo.sortBy,// Champ de tri
            sortDirection: chronoInfo.sortDirection,//True pour inverser l'ordre de tri
            pageNumber: chronoInfo.currentPage,//Page de résultats
            pageSize: chronoInfo.pageSize//Nb enregistrements par page
        });

        return this.apiFetcher.fetchJson(URL, params);
        //retourne les AL par année & mois
    }

and the test of this methode is :

import { TestBed, async, inject } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { AnnonceChronoDetailService } from './annonce-chrono-detail.service';
import { HttpClientModule } from '@angular/common/http';
import { UrlDecoratorService } from "src/app/common/url-decorator.service";
import { HttpClientTestingModule, HttpTestingController } from '@angular/common/http/testing';
import { APIFetcherService } from "src/app/services/common/api-fetcher.service";
import { Http, ConnectionBackend, RequestOptions, HttpModule } from "@angular/http";
import { ALChrono } from '../../common/IALChrono.interface';
import { Observable } from 'rxjs';

describe('AnnonceChronoDetailService', () => {
    let service: AnnonceChronoDetailService;
    let alChrono: ALChrono = { //it's an interface'
        year: 2012,
        month: -1,
        sortBy: 'asc',
        sortDirection: true,
        currentPage: 1,
        pageSize: 15
    }

    beforeEach(() => {
        TestBed.configureTestingModule({
            imports: [HttpModule],
            providers: [
                AnnonceChronoDetailService,
                UrlDecoratorService,
                APIFetcherService,
                Http,
                ConnectionBackend]
        });
    });


    it('should be created', inject([AnnonceChronoDetailService], (service: AnnonceChronoDetailService) => {
        expect(service).toBeTruthy();
    }
    ));


    it('#fetchData should return value from observable', (done: DoneFn) => {
        service.fetchData(alChrono).subscribe(value => {
            expect(value).toBe('observable value');
            done();
        });
    });

});

and when i execute ng test i have problem in the seconde test #fetchData should return value from observable , the error is :

AnnonceChronoDetailService > #fetchData should return value from observable


TypeError: Cannot read property 'fetchData' of undefined
    at <Jasmine>
    at UserContext.<anonymous> (http://localhost:9876/src/app/services/annonce-legale/annonce-chrono-detail.service.spec.ts?:41:17)
    at ZoneDelegate../node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone.js.ZoneDelegate.invoke (http://localhost:9876/node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone.js?:388:1)
    at ProxyZoneSpec.push../node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone-testing.js.ProxyZoneSpec.onInvoke (http://localhost:9876/node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone-testing.js?:288:1)
    at ZoneDelegate../node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone.js.ZoneDelegate.invoke (http://localhost:9876/node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone.js?:387:1)
    at Zone../node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone.js.Zone.run (http://localhost:9876/node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone.js?:138:1)
    at runInTestZone (http://localhost:9876/node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone-testing.js?:506:1)
    at UserContext.<anonymous> (http://localhost:9876/node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone-testing.js?:522:1)
    at <Jasmine>

i try some solutions like adding asyn but the problem was the same.

Answer 1

You define 'service' in the first spec ('it' function) but then try and use it in the second. If you want to use the 'service' variable within each spec, which makes sense, then I would suggest you put something like this inside the beforeEach function to define service correctly for every spec:

service = TestBed.get(AnnonceChronoDetailService);

Then change your first spec to the following:

it('should be created', () => {
    expect(service).toBeTruthy();
});

Now your second spec should work as written.

Update:

Adding spies for your other services. Many ways to do this. Here is one:

describe('AnnonceChronoDetailService', () => {
    const spyDecorator = jasmine.createSpyObj('UrlDecoratorService', {
        urlAPIDecorate: '/test/url',
        generateParameters: null /* set test params to return here /*
    };
    const spyFetcher = jasmine.createSpyObj('APIFetcherService', {
        fetchJson: {}
    };
    let service: AnnonceChronoDetailService;
    ...

Now change your providers array to use the spies instead of the original services:

        providers: [
            AnnonceChronoDetailService,
            { provide: UrlDecoratorService, useValue: spyDecorator } ,
            { provide: APIFetcherService, useValue: spyFetcher },
            ]

and then in your spec files you can check those spies. Change these suggestions to something you actually care about:

it('#fetchData should return value from observable', () => {
    spyFetcher.fetchJson.and.returnValue(of('observable value'));
    service.fetchData(alChrono).subscribe(value => {
        expect(value).toEqual('observable value');
    });
    expect(spyDecorator.urlAPIDecorate).toHaveBeenCalled();
    expect(spyDecorator.generateParameters).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
    expect(spyFetcher.fetchJson).toHaveBeenCalledWith('/test/url', /* test params defined above */);
});