MatDialog Service Unit Test Angular 6 Error

Question

I'm having modal service to open, confirm and close dialog and i am making its unit test file but i got and error on Angular and this is the code.

modal.service.ts

@Injectable()
export class ModalService {

  constructor(private dialog: MatDialog) { }

  public open<modalType>(modalComponent: ComponentType<modalType>): Observable<any> {
    let dialogRef: MatDialogRef<any>;

    dialogRef = this.dialog.open(modalComponent, {
      maxWidth: '100vw'
    });
    console.log(dialogRef)
    dialogRef.componentInstance.body = body;

    return dialogRef.afterClosed().pipe(map(result => console.log('test'); );
  }

}

modal.service.spec.ts

export class TestComponent  {}


describe('ModalService', () => {
  let modalService: ModalService;

  const mockDialogRef = {
    open: jasmine.createSpy('open')
  };

  beforeEach(async(() => {
    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      imports: [ MatDialogModule ],
      providers: [
        ModalService,
        MatDialogRef,
        { provide: MatDialog, useClass: MatDialogStub }
      ]
    }).compileComponents();

    modalService = TestBed.get(ModalService);
  }));


  it('open modal', () => {
    modalService.open(DummyComponent, '300px');
    expect(modalService.open).toHaveBeenCalled();

  });

});

So with that code the error is

TypeError: Cannot read property 'componentInstance' of undefined

Can you help me how to make this successful? Help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

Testing mat-dialogs can be tricky. I tend to use a spy object for the return from a dialog open (dialogRefSpyObj below) so I can more easily track and control tests. In your case it might look something like the following:

describe('ModalService', () => {
    let modalService: ModalService;
    let dialogSpy: jasmine.Spy;
    let dialogRefSpyObj = jasmine.createSpyObj({ afterClosed : of({}), close: null });
    dialogRefSpyObj.componentInstance = { body: '' }; // attach componentInstance to the spy object...

    beforeEach(() => {
        TestBed.configureTestingModule({
            imports: [MatDialogModule],
            providers: [ModalService]
        });
        modalService = TestBed.get(ModalService);
    });

    beforeEach(() => {
        dialogSpy = spyOn(TestBed.get(MatDialog), 'open').and.returnValue(dialogRefSpyObj);
    });

    it('open modal ', () => {
        modalService.open(TestComponent, '300px');
        expect(dialogSpy).toHaveBeenCalled();

        // You can also do things with this like:
        expect(dialogSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(TestComponent, { maxWidth: '100vw' });

        // and ...
        expect(dialogRefSpyObj.afterClosed).toHaveBeenCalled();
    });
});