AngularJS Protractor E2E - mock httpBackend with absolute URLs -

i have started using protractor e2e ui testing angularjs app.

the base url app looks -

http://localhost:8181/web-module/?username=admin 

this url redirects security-module in actual application given username. security-module running on different port - 9191.

the redirected request looks -

http://localhost:9191/security-module/user/?username=admin 

when try mock request using $httpbackend using -

  describe('home page', function () {      var ptor = protractor.getinstance();      var httpbackendmock = function () {        var app = angular.module('httpbackendmock', ['ngmocke2e']);        app.run(function ($httpbackend) {                 var current_user = {"username":"admin","password":null,"fullname":"system admin","email":"admin@example.com"};          $httpbackend.whenget('http://localhost:9191/security-module/user/?username=admin').respond(function(method, url, data, headers) {             return [200, current_user, {}];          });           $httpbackend.whenget(/.*/).passthrough();         })      };      ptor.addmockmodule('httpbackendmock', httpbackendmock);       it('home page', function () {        ptor.get('http://localhost:8181/web-module/?username=admin');        var element = ptor.findelement(protractor.by.id('username'));        expect(element.gettext()).toequal('system admin');      });     }); 

the call still tries hit actual http service/url rather mocked one.

i not sure doing wrong here. great.

i had same issue before. use regex instead in whenget() method make sure other parameter there , don't see it.

try:

$httpbackend .whenget(/^http:\/\/localhost:9191\/security-module\/user.*$/) .respond(function(method, url, data, headers) {    return [200, current_user, {}]; }); 

you match urls start regex path. then, can update regex specify when there username=admin parameter. it's pain use regex $httpbackend service check parameters string.

to avoid writing each time:

/^http:\/\/localhost:9191 

you can specify baseurl in protractor.conf.js:

baseurl: 'http://localhost:9191',