Can't resolve all parameters for Router: (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) in Angular RC 5 when unit testing
I just upgraded to Angular RC 5 and now all component that uses 'ROUTER_DIRECTIVES' fails with 'Can't resolve all parameters for Router: (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)' when I try to unit test the component.
import { inject, addProviders } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { ComponentFixture, TestComponentBuilder } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { ROUTER_DIRECTIVES, Router } from '@angular/router';
import { HomeComponent } from './home.component';
import { UserService } from '../_services/user.service';
describe('Component: Home', () => {
beforeEach(() => {
addProviders([HomeComponent, UserService, ROUTER_DIRECTIVES, Router]);
});
it('should inject the component', inject([HomeComponent, UserService, ROUTER_DIRECTIVES, Router],
(component: HomeComponent) => {
expect(component).toBeTruthy();
// expect(component.currentUser.firstname).toEqual('Jan');
}));
The full error log:
Chrome 52.0.2743 (Windows 10 0.0.0)
Error: Can't resolve all parameters for Router: (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?).
at new BaseException (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/facade/exceptions.js:27:0 <- src/test.ts:2943:23)
at CompileMetadataResolver.getDependenciesMetadata (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/metadata_resolver.js:551:0 <- src/test.ts:24542:19)
at CompileMetadataResolver.getTypeMetadata (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/metadata_resolver.js:448:0 <- src/test.ts:24439:26)
at webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/metadata_resolver.js:594:0 <- src/test.ts:24585:41
at Array.forEach (native)
at CompileMetadataResolver.getProvidersMetadata (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/metadata_resolver.js:575:0 <- src/test.ts:24566:19)
at CompileMetadataResolver.getNgModuleMetadata (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/metadata_resolver.js:305:0 <- src/test.ts:24296:58)
at RuntimeCompiler._compileComponents (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/runtime_compiler.js:150:0 <- src/test.ts:37986:47)
at RuntimeCompiler._compileModuleAndAllComponents (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/runtime_compiler.js:78:0 <- src/test.ts:37914:37)
at RuntimeCompiler.compileModuleAndAllComponentsSync (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/runtime_compiler.js:52:0 <- src/test.ts:37888:21)
Any ideas how to unit test components with routing?
Was finally able to fix it, and it was as simple as this:
beforeEach(() => addProviders([
{
provide: Router,
useClass: class { navigate = jasmine.createSpy("navigate"); }
}]));
for me it worked to add the RouterTestingModule
import { RouterTestingModule } from '@angular/router/testing';
beforeEach(async(() => {
TestBed.configureTestingModule({
imports: [
RouterTestingModule
],
declarations: [ HomeComponent ]
})
.compileComponents();
}));
In my case, I had Router in providers and RouterTestingModule in imports. Guess this was causing a conflict. The following configuration worked:
TestBed.configureTestingModule({
declarations: [Component],
imports: [
RouterTestingModule,
],
providers: [
... //Remove Router from providers
]
});
I did not have any luck with the above solutions. Instead, I followed the recommended approach in the official documentation: Testing Routed Components
First, create a stubbed router with whatever methods your component calls:
class RouterStub {
navigateByUrl(url: string) {
return url;
}
}
Then, when configuring your testing module you do the following:
TestBed.configureTestingModule({
declarations: [HeaderComponent],
providers: [
{provide: Router, useClass: RouterStub}
]
});