[SOLVED] how to fix 404 warnings for images during karma unit testing

how to fix 404 warnings for images during karma unit testing

I'm unit testing one of my directives (angularjs) using grunt/karma/phantomjs/jasmine. My tests run fine

describe('bar foo', function () {
    beforeEach(inject(function ($rootScope, $compile) {
        elm = angular.element('<img bar-foo src="img1.png"/>');
        scope = $rootScope.$new();
        $compile(elm)();
        scope.$digest();
    }));
    ....
});

but I do get these 404s

WARN [web-server]: 404: /img1.png
WARN [web-server]: 404: /img2.png
...

Although they do nothing, they do add noise to the log output. Is there a way to fix this ? (without changing karma's logLevel of course, because I do want to see them)

Solution

That is because you need to configurate karma to load then serve them when requested ;)

In your karma.conf.js file you should already have defined files and/or patterns like :

// list of files / patterns to load in the browser
files : [
  {pattern: 'app/lib/angular.js', watched: true, included: true, served: true},
  {pattern: 'app/lib/angular-*.js', watched: true, included: true, served: true},
  {pattern: 'app/lib/**/*.js', watched: true, included: true, served: true},
  {pattern: 'app/js/**/*.js', watched: true, included: true, served: true},
  // add the line below with the correct path pattern for your case
  {pattern: 'path/to/**/*.png', watched: false, included: false, served: true},
  // important: notice that "included" must be false to avoid errors
  // otherwise Karma will include them as scripts
  {pattern: 'test/lib/**/*.js', watched: true, included: true, served: true},
  {pattern: 'test/unit/**/*.js', watched: true, included: true, served: true},
],

// list of files to exclude
exclude: [

],

// ...

You can have a look here for more info :)

EDIT : If you use a nodejs web-server to run your app, you can add this to karma.conf.js :

proxies: {
  '/path/to/img/': 'http://localhost:8000/path/to/img/'
},

EDIT2 : If you don't use or want to use another server you can define a local proxy but as Karma doesn't provide access to port in use, dynamically, if karma starts on another port than 9876 (default), you will still get those annoying 404...

proxies =  {
  '/images/': '/base/images/'
};