refactor($controller): Add $controller service for instantiating controllers

So that we can allow user to override this service and use BC hack:
https://gist.github.com/1649788

1 files changed, 38 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/service/controllerSpec.js b/test/service/controllerSpec.js
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+'use strict';
+
+describe('$controller', function() {
+  var $controller;
+
+  beforeEach(inject(function($injector) {
+    $controller = $injector.get('$controller');
+  }));
+
+  it('should return instance of given controller class', function() {
+    var MyClass = function() {},
+        ctrl = $controller(MyClass);
+
+    expect(ctrl).toBeDefined();
+    expect(ctrl instanceof MyClass).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('should inject arguments', inject(function($http) {
+    var MyClass = function($http) {
+      this.$http = $http;
+    };
+
+    var ctrl = $controller(MyClass);
+    expect(ctrl.$http).toBe($http);
+  }));
+
+
+  it('should inject given scope', function() {
+    var MyClass = function($scope) {
+      this.$scope = $scope;
+    };
+
+    var scope = {},
+        ctrl = $controller(MyClass, scope);
+
+    expect(ctrl.$scope).toBe(scope);
+  });
+});