Jasmine test function using a private variable

Question

I am trying to test one of my functions, but part of it uses a personal variable from the controller. How can I get Jasmine to fake data from this private variable?

window.MyApp = window.MyApp || {};


(function(myController) {

    var deliverablesKoModel;

    myController.initialize = function(releaseId) {

        // Ajax call with this success:

        deliverablesKoModel = new knockOutModel(data); // this model contains an observable array named 'deliverables'

    };

     myController.checkDeliverableNameIsValid = function (deliverable) {

        var valid = false;

        if (ko.unwrap(deliverable.name) !== null && ko.unwrap(deliverable.name) !== undefined) {
            // PROBLEM HERE
            // when running the test deliverablesKoModel below is always undefined!
            /////////////
            valid = _.all(deliverablesKoModel.deliverables(), function(rel) {
                return (ko.unwrap(rel.name).trim().toLowerCase() !== ko.unwrap(deliverable.name).trim().toLowerCase()
                    || ko.unwrap(rel.id) === ko.unwrap(deliverable.id));
            });

        }

        deliverable.nameIsValid(valid);

        return valid;
    };


}(window.MyApp.myController = window.MyApp.myController || {}));

My jasmine test. I tried to have deliverablesKoModel to be a global variable, but it always goes out of scope when you use the method above.

describe("checkDeliverableNameIsValid should", function () {
    var deliverable;
    beforeEach(function () {
        window['deliverablesKoModel'] = {
            deliverables: function() {
                return fakeData.DeliverablesViewModel.Deliverables; // this is a json object matching the deliverables in the knockout model
            }
        };

        deliverable = {
            id: 1,
            name: "test 1",
            nameIsValid: function(isValid) {
                return isValid;
            }
        };
    });

    it("return false if any deliverable already exists with the same name", function () {
        var valid = myApp.myController.checkDeliverableNameIsValid(deliverable);

        expect(valid).toBe(false);
    });

});

Answer 1

deliverablesKoModelis closed to code outside of IIFE .

I am not familiar with knockout, but there are several ways to install deliverablesKoModel.

• Make this a property of your controller, which you can set / get.
• #initialize , . #initialize .

№ 2 :

   var deliverablesKoModel;

myController.initialize = function(releaseId, modelCallback) {

    // Ajax call with this success:

    deliverablesKoModel = modelCallback(data); //returns a model

};

Spec:

    it("return false if any deliverable already exists with the same name", function () {
    var fakeModel = function(data) {
      return {
         deliverables: function() {
            return fakeData.DeliverablesViewModel.Deliverables; 
        }
      }
    };

//You didn't initialize your
 //controller, which made the "private" variable deliverablesKoModel null in your IIFE
    myApp.myController.initialize(relaseId, fakeModel);

    var valid = myApp.myController.checkDeliverableNameIsValid(deliverable);

    expect(valid).toBe(false);
});