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Mocking Child Components-Angular 2 (3)

Careful about the NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA. Let's quote another part of the same the docs:

Shallow component tests with NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA greatly simplify unit testing of complex templates. However, the compiler no longer alerts you to mistakes such as misspelled or misused components and directives.

I find that drawback quite contrary to the purposes of writing a test. Even more so that it's not that hard to mock a basic component.

An approach not yet mentioned here is simply to declare them at config time:

@Component({
  selector: 'product-settings',
  template: '<p>Mock Product Settings Component</p>'
})
class MockProductSettingsComponent {}

@Component({
  selector: 'product-editor',
  template: '<p>Mock Product Editor Component</p>'
})
class MockProductEditorComponent {}

...  // third one

beforeEach(() => {
  TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      declarations: [
        ProductSelectedComponent,
        MockProductSettingsComponent,
        MockProductEditorComponent,
        // ... third one
      ],
      providers: [/* your providers */]
  });
  // ... carry on
});

How do you mock a child component when testing? I have a parent component called product-selected whose template looks like this:

<section id="selected-container" class="container-fluid">
    <hr/>
  <product-settings></product-settings>
  <product-editor></product-editor>
  <product-options></product-options>
</section>

And the component declaration looks like this:

import { Component, Input }               from '@angular/core'; 

import { ProductSettingsComponent } from '../settings/product-settings.component';                                      
import { ProductEditorComponent }   from '../editor/product-editor.component';                                      
import { ProductOptionsComponent }  from '../options/product-options.component';                                        

@Component({
    selector: 'product-selected',
    templateUrl: './product-selected.component.html',
    styleUrls: ['./product-selected.component.scss']
})
export class ProductSelectedComponent {}

This component is really just a place for the other components to live in and probably won't contain any other functions.

But when I set up the testing I get the following template error, repeated for all three components:

Error: Template parse errors:
    'product-editor' is not a known element:
    1. If 'product-editor' is an Angular component, then verify that it is part of this module.
    2. If 'product-editor' is a Web Component then add "CUSTOM_ELEMENTS_SCHEMA" to the '@NgModule.schemas' of this component to suppress this message. ("
        <hr/>
      <product-settings></product-settings>
      [ERROR ->]<product-editor></product-editor>

I've tried to load a mocked version of the child components but don't know how to do - the examples that I've seen just override the parent and don't even mention the child components. So how do I go about doing it?

Found a nearly perfect solution, that will also correctly throw errors if someone refactors a component.

npm install ng-mocks

Now in your .spec.ts you can do

import { MockComponent } from 'mock-component';
import { ChildComponent } from './child.component.ts';
...
  beforeEach(
async(() => {
  TestBed.configureTestingModule({
    imports: [FormsModule, ReactiveFormsModule, RouterTestingModule],
    declarations: [
      ComponentUnderTest,
      MockComponent(ChildComponent),
      ...

This creates a new anonymous Component that has the same selector, @Input() and @Output() properties of the ChildComponent, but with no code attached.

Assume that your ChildComponent has a @Input() childValue: number, that is bound in your component under test, <app-child-component [childValue]="inputValue" />

The only downside I have found so far, is, that you can't use By.directive(ChildComponent) in your tests, as the type changes, but instead you can use By.css('app-child-component') like so

it('sets the right value on the child component`, ()=> {
     component.inputValue=5;
     fixture.detectChanges();
     const element = fixture.debugElement.query(By.css('app-child-component'));
     expect(element).toBeTruthy();

     const child: ChildComponent = element.componentInstance;

     expect(child.childValue).toBe(5);
});

I posted this question so I could post an answer as I struggled with this for a day or two. Here's how you do it:

let declarations = [
  ProductSelectedComponent,
  ProductSettingsComponent,
  ProductEditorComponent,
  ProductOptionsComponent
];

beforeEach(() => {
        TestBed.configureTestingModule({
            declarations: declarations,
            providers: providers
        })
        .overrideComponent(ProductSettingsComponent, {
            set: {
                selector: 'product-settings',
                template: `<h6>Product Settings</h6>`
            }
        })
        .overrideComponent(ProductEditorComponent, {
            set: {
                selector: 'product-editor',
                template: `<h6>Product Editor</h6>`
            }
        })
        .overrideComponent(ProductOptionsComponent, {
            set: {
                selector: 'product-options',
                template: `<h6>Product Options</h6>`
            }
        });

        fixture = TestBed.createComponent(ProductSelectedComponent);
        cmp = fixture.componentInstance;
        de = fixture.debugElement.query(By.css('section'));
        el = de.nativeElement;
    });

You have to chain the overrideComponent function for each of the child components.






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