Jasmine + AngularJS: Global services causes Unexpected GET request - angularjs

Question

I have a service, $language, that gets called in app config (so before every Spec runs). The method called, $language.update(), triggers $translate.use() (which in turn triggers an $http.get()). This causes an Unexpected request: GET /<lang>/i18n.
I've tried a few different things to resolve this, but each seems to cause a new problem:
Globally mock the $translate service
// not inside a describe()
beforeEach(function() {
module(function($provide) {
$provide.value('$translate', {
get: function() { return false; },
storage: function() { return false; },
storageKey: function() {
return {
get: function() { return false; },
set: function() { return false; }
};
},
use: function() { return false; }
});
});
});
But something tries to call $translate(), so I tried making the mock a function returning an object, but that didn't work either.
Mocking the GET request via $httpBackend
// not inside a describe()
beforeEach(function() {
// this already existed to avoid another problem caused by $translate
module('MyApp', function config($translateProvider, $anotherProvider) {
// …
});
// new
inject(function($httpBackend) {
$httpBackend.when('GET', '/<lang>/i18n').respond({});
});
});
But then it complains Injector already created, can not register a module! (order of module and inject doesn't seem to matter).
I thought of globally mocking my $language service, but then I would not be able to test it in its own Spec.
Ideally I'd prefer to globally mock $translate as it seems to cause one problem after another.

Answer 1

The problem was that $translate is a provider; therefore a provider needs to be $provide'd:
// Outside of a describe so it's treated as global
beforeEach(function() {
module('MyModule', function config($providerA, $provide) {
// …
$provide.provider('$translate', function() {
var store = {};
this.get = function() { return false; };
this.preferredLanguage = function() { return false; };
this.storage = function() { return false; };
this.translations = function() { return {}; };
this.$get = ['$q', function($q) {
var $translate = function(key) {
var deferred = $q.defer(); deferred.resolve(key); return deferred.promise;
};
$translate.addPair = function(key, val) { store[key] = val; };
$translate.isPostCompilingEnabled = function() { return false; };
$translate.preferredLanguage = function() { return false; };
$translate.storage = function() { return false; };
$translate.storageKey = function() { return true; };
$translate.use = function() { return false; };
return $translate;
}];
});
});
});