Trying to test-drive my first ember.js app. Using ember app kit.
Puzzled by how qunit works with selectors (I assumed that jquery selectors would work, and they do - for the most part...).
My handlebars has this code:
{{#link-to 'locations.new' classNames='add-btn'}}
Add new location
{{/link-to}}
and I intend to test for existence of a link with an appropriate href
and also click the link and verify the current url and route after click.
So, my tests are as follows:
// There is an element that links to locations/new
var link = find('a[href="#/locations/new"]');
ok(link, 'There is a link to add new location on the page');
click(link);
andThen(function() {
equal(currentRouteName(), 'locations.new', 'Clicked "add" button - now locations.new route is active');
equal(currentURL(), '/locations/new', 'Clicked "add" button - and current url is /locations/new');
});
note: I am using currentRouteName
and currentURL
helpers from this PR on EAK, and they do work as intended.
My test fails on the click(link)
part, with Error: Element [object Object] not found.
.
If I try to pass the selector directly to click - like so - click("a[href='#/locations/new']")
- I get an error Element a[href='#/locations/new'] not found.
. Same result if I try to escape the special character # with a backslash or double backslash.
For the time being, I mitigated the issue by grabbing the div by class - like so:
var link-by-class = find('.add-btn');
click(link-by-class);
andThen( as above )
And the tests pass.
Questions:
- how come I can't invoke "click()" on the same variable found by href?
- Am I testing with reasonable indifference to implementation? (well, the workaround of finding an element by the class doesn't fit that bill?)
Thanks in advance!
UPDATE
Per kingpin2k's comment, my test was passing due to the wrong assertion method I chose - ok(foo, 'bar')
will pass if foo
is an empty array (which find
returns if there are no results. Ember API docs guided me to use findWithAssert, and it fails to find the link with such href
.
Befuddlingly, using the [attribute='value']
jquery selector per jQuery docs in JS console works; and the implementation of find as well as findWithAssert in ember-testing seems to just pass down the selector to jQuery...
Why does it fail? I don't know. One would think as GLaDOS explained speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out - just passing the selector over to jQuery would give it back as jQuery would return it - but apparently not.
I'll stick to using the class selector then, although it does kind of dictate implementation.