Can't resolve all parameters for Router: (?, ?

Question

I just upgraded to Angular RC 5 and now all component that uses 'ROUTER_DIRECTIVES' fails with 'Can't resolve all parameters for Router: (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)' when I try to unit test the component.

import { inject, addProviders } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { ComponentFixture, TestComponentBuilder } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { ROUTER_DIRECTIVES, Router } from '@angular/router';

import { HomeComponent } from './home.component';
import { UserService } from '../_services/user.service';

describe('Component: Home', () => {

  beforeEach(() => {
    addProviders([HomeComponent, UserService, ROUTER_DIRECTIVES, Router]);
  });  

  it('should inject the component', inject([HomeComponent, UserService, ROUTER_DIRECTIVES, Router],
    (component: HomeComponent) => {
      expect(component).toBeTruthy();
      // expect(component.currentUser.firstname).toEqual('Jan');
    }));

The full error log:

     Chrome 52.0.2743 (Windows 10 0.0.0)
   Error: Can't resolve all parameters for Router: (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?).
       at new BaseException (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/facade/exceptions.js:27:0 <- src/test.ts:2943:23)
       at CompileMetadataResolver.getDependenciesMetadata (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/metadata_resolver.js:551:0 <- src/test.ts:24542:19)
       at CompileMetadataResolver.getTypeMetadata (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/metadata_resolver.js:448:0 <- src/test.ts:24439:26)
       at webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/metadata_resolver.js:594:0 <- src/test.ts:24585:41
       at Array.forEach (native)
       at CompileMetadataResolver.getProvidersMetadata (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/metadata_resolver.js:575:0 <- src/test.ts:24566:19)
       at CompileMetadataResolver.getNgModuleMetadata (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/metadata_resolver.js:305:0 <- src/test.ts:24296:58)
       at RuntimeCompiler._compileComponents (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/runtime_compiler.js:150:0 <- src/test.ts:37986:47)
       at RuntimeCompiler._compileModuleAndAllComponents (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/runtime_compiler.js:78:0 <- src/test.ts:37914:37)
       at RuntimeCompiler.compileModuleAndAllComponentsSync (webpack:///C:/ng/anbud/~/@angular/compiler/src/runtime_compiler.js:52:0 <- src/test.ts:37888:21)

Any ideas how to unit test components with routing?

Answer 1

I was getting the same error, importing RouterTestModule in my imports array, and removing Router/ActivatedRoute from providers and also removing RouterModule from my imports array helped me to get over this issue.

This is how my working version looks like

import { RouterTestingModule } from '@angular/router/testing';
import { async, ComponentFixture, TestBed } from '@angular/core/testing';
import { FormsModule } from '@angular/forms';
import { MyAppComponent } from './my-apppp.component';
import { MyAppService } from '../../../services/my-app.service';
import { NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA} from '@angular/core';

 beforeEach(async(() => {
    TestBed.configureTestingModule({
      declarations: [ MyAppComponent ],
      schemas:      [NO_ERRORS_SCHEMA],
      imports: [ FormsModule, RouterTestingModule ],
      providers: [ MyAppService ]
    })
    .compileComponents();
  }));

I know a lot of people already commented in here, but I felt like providing a updated answer would be helpful.

Thanks!