Function from angular js controlles is not executing when testing - angularjs

Question

I am testing my angularjs application with Jasmine and Karma.
My test looks like this:
describe('Login test', function() {
// Mock our module in our tests
beforeEach(module('Project'));
var ctrl, scope;
// inject the $controller and $rootScope services
// in the beforeEach block
beforeEach(inject(function($controller, $rootScope) {
// Create a new scope that's a child of the $rootScope
scope = $rootScope.$new();
// Create the controller
ctrl = $controller('loginController', {
$scope: scope
});
}));
it('should get login success',function() {
scope.loginClick('user', 'pass');
});
});
I have a login controller with the loginClick function, and inside this function i have another function which is making a POST request. The problem is that the inner function is never executed, i try to console.log() to see if the function is called but with no success.
My function looks like this:
app.controller('loginController', ['$scope', '$http', '$route', function ($scope, $http, $route) {
console.log('controller call'); // yes it works
...
$scope.loginClick = function (username, password) {
console.log('controller call'); // yes it works
handler.reqPOST('/login', userData, function (result) {
console.log('login request'); // no output is sent to the console
});
};
}]);
The handler object is include in the karma configuration file at start-up.

Answer 1

First of all, unless you have very good reason, $http is the way to go in angularJS to call the back-end, it also makes it more testable.
In any case you should mock the post call, in a unit-test you don't want to rely on the back-end
In your case, you could use a spy (http://jasmine.github.io/2.0/introduction.html#section-Spies):
describe('Login test', function(){
beforeEach(module('Project'));
var ctrl, scope;
beforeEach(inject(function($injector) {
var $controller = $injector.get('$controller');
var $rootScope = $injector.get('$rootScope');
scope = $rootScope.$new();
ctrl = $controller('loginController', {
$scope: scope,
});
}));
it('test login', function () {
spyOn(handler, 'reqPOST');
scope.loginClick('user', 'pass');
expect(handler.reqPOST).toHaveBeenCalledWith('user', 'pass');
});
});