I'm unable to get my unit test to work properly. I have a $scope array that starts out empty, but should be filled with an $http.get(). In the real environment, there'd be approx 15 or so objects in the array, but for my unit test I just grabbed 2. For the unit test, I have:

expect($scope.stuff.length).toBe(2);

But jasmine's error is: Expected 0 to be 2.

here's my controller.js:

$scope.stuff = [];

$scope.getStuff = function () {

    var url = site.root + 'api/stuff';

    $http.get(url)

        .success(function (data) {

            $scope.stuff = data;

        })

        .error(function(error) {

            console.log(error);

        });

};

and my controller.spec.js is:

/// <reference path=../../../scripts/angular-loader.min.js />

/// <reference path=../../../scripts/angular.min.js />

/// <reference path=../../../scripts/angular-mocks.js />

/// <reference path=../../../scripts/angular-resource.js />

/// <reference path=../../../scripts/controller.js />

beforeEach(module('ui.router'));

beforeEach(module('ngResource'));

beforeEach(module('ngMockE2E'));

beforeEach(module('myApplication'));

var $scope;

var controller;

var httpLocalBackend;



beforeEach(inject(function ($rootScope, $controller, $injector) {

    $scope = $rootScope.$new();

    controller = $controller(StuffController, {

        $scope: $scope

    });

}));



beforeEach(inject(function ($httpBackend) {

    httpLocalBackend = $httpBackend;

}));



it('should get stuff', function () {

    var url = '/api/stuff';

    var httpResponse = [{ stuffId: 1 }, { stuffId: 2 }];

    httpLocalBackend.expectGET(url).respond(200, httpResponse);

    $scope.getStuff();

    expect($scope.stuff.length).toBe(2);

    //httpLocalBackend.flush();

} );

Now, obviously, I changed variable names and such since this is for work, but hopefully this is enough information for anybody to help me. I can provide more if needed. I also get a second error when uncommenting the .flush() line, but I'll get to that a bit later.

Any help is greatly appreciated and thanks in advance!

EDIT:

Finally got it working! Here's my final code:

it('should get stuff', function () {

    var url = '/api/stuff';

    var httpResponse = [{ stuffId: 1 }, { stuffId: 2 }];

    httpLocalBackend.expectGET(url).respond(200, httpResponse);

    $scope.getStuff();

    httpLocalBackend.flush();

    expect($scope.stuff.length).toBe(2);

} );

EDIT 2:
I ran into another problem, which I think may have been the root cause of this. See Unit test failing when function called on startup