Protractor with Angular Mocks Throws "Window Not Defined"

Question

I've searched around quite a bit on this problem, but can't find a solution.

I'm trying to mock my backend, which is well tested so I can completely isolate my frontend. I've tried using protractor-http-mock and also various efforts with angular-mocks.

Having settled on the angular-mocks method with HttpBackend, I'm getting this error when firing up my protractor tests:

MBP:test-site admin$ protractor protractor.conf.js
Using ChromeDriver directly...
[launcher] Running 1 instances of WebDriver
[launcher] Error: ReferenceError: window is not defined
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/Ed/Sites/F4F/web/node_modules/angular/angular.js:30426:4)
    at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:357:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:314:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:367:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:16:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/Ed/Sites/F4F/web/node_modules/angular/index.js:1:1)
    at Module._compile (module.js:413:34)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:422:10)
[launcher] Process exited with error code 100

This is my protractor.conf.js

exports.config = {

    directConnect: true,

    // Capabilities to be passed to the webdriver instance.
    capabilities: {
        'browserName': 'chrome'
    },

    chromeOnly: true,
    chromeDriver: './node_modules/protractor/selenium/chromedriver',

    // Framework to use. Jasmine 2 is recommended.
    framework: 'jasmine2',

    baseUrl: 'http://localhost:5000/',
    seleniumAddress: 'http://127.0.0.1:4444/wd/hub',

    // Spec patterns are relative to the current working directly when
    // protractor is called.
    specs: ['./tests/**/*.js'],

    // Options to be passed to Jasmine.
    jasmineNodeOpts: {
        showColors: true,
        defaultTimeoutInterval: 30000
    }

};

And this is my test:

'use strict'

var angular         = require('angular');
var angular_mock    = require('angular-mocks');
var HttpBackend     = require('httpbackend');
var backend         = null;

describe("Footer", function () {

    beforeEach(function() {
        backend = new HttpBackend(browser);
    });

    afterEach(function() {
        backend.clear();
    });

    describe("Display Values", function () {

        it("should show correct contact details", function () {

            backend.whenGET(/app/).respond({
                "name": "ExampleApp",
                "company": {
                    "code": "EXA",
                    "name": "ExampleApp",
                    "brand_name": "ExampleApp",
                    "head_office_id": 3,
                    "display_email": "[email protected]",
                    "display_tel": "+44 (0) 1234 56789"
                }
            });

            browser.get('/');

            var tel_li      = $('#footer .top li:first-child');
            var email_li    = $('#footer .top li:last-child');

            expect(tel_li.getText()).toEqual('+44 (0) 1234 56789');
            expect(email_li.getText()).toEqual('[email protected]');

        });
    });
});

Can anybody help please?

--- Responding to @alecxe's comment

Revising the test to look like this:

'use strict'

describe("Footer", function () {

    describe("Display Values", function () {

        it("should show correct contact details", function () {

            browser.get('/');

        });
    });
});

Gives the following result:

MBP:test-site admin$ protractor protractor.conf.js
Using ChromeDriver directly...
[launcher] Running 1 instances of WebDriver
Started
.


1 spec, 0 failures
Finished in 0.749 seconds
[launcher] 0 instance(s) of WebDriver still running
[launcher] chrome #1 passed

Answer 1

Don't import angular-mocks and angular at all, httpbackend don't need them to be imported:

'use strict'

var HttpBackend     = require('httpbackend');
var backend         = null;

describe("Footer", function () {

    beforeEach(function() {
        backend = new HttpBackend(browser);
    });

    afterEach(function() {
        backend.clear();
    });

    describe("Display Values", function () {

        it("should show correct contact details", function () {

            backend.whenGET(/app/).respond({
                "name": "ExampleApp",
                "company": {
                    "code": "EXA",
                    "name": "ExampleApp",
                    "brand_name": "ExampleApp",
                    "head_office_id": 3,
                    "display_email": "[email protected]",
                    "display_tel": "+44 (0) 1234 56789"
                }
            });

            browser.get('/');

            var tel_li      = $('#footer .top li:first-child');
            var email_li    = $('#footer .top li:last-child');

            expect(tel_li.getText()).toEqual('+44 (0) 1234 56789');
            expect(email_li.getText()).toEqual('[email protected]');

        });
    });
});

Answer 2

I had your exact issue, and ended up solving it by importing angular-mocks as a raw string and injecting it via browser.addMockModule:

const fs = require('fs');
const ngMock = fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/../../node_modules/angular-mocks/angular-mocks.js', 'utf-8');

browser.addMockModule('ngMockE2E', ngMock);
browser.addMockModule('e2e', function e2e() {
  angular.module('e2e', ['ngMockE2E'])
    .run(['$httpBackend', function($httpBackend) {
      // Your mocked calls here
    }])
});

This will force the driver to compile the script during runtime, where window is available. However, this breaks if you have browser.ignoreSynchronization = true; however.