Jasmine : Expect $http.post() not have been called

Question

In an angularjs program I'd like to test with Jasmine if an http post is NOT performed in a test.

I've try the following code :

expect($http.post).not().toHaveBeenCalled();

But I get "ReferenceError: $http is not defined"

Answer 1

This is old but I used the following to test for this.

expect($httpBackend.flush).toThrowError('No pending request to flush !');

Answer 2

That is error is because you never injected $http into the test. You can do this with the inject function, but for testing $http calls, you really should use $httpBackend

For requests that you want to make sure they aren't called, you don't need to do anything. Angular throws an error when it gets a request that wasn't expected (as defined by the expect functions on $httpBackend). So If a request is made that shouldn't be, the tests will fail from this error thrown from an unexpected request.