ngMock - injector not attached to $rootElement

[jsuchenia]

Under ngMock when injector was already created it's not connected to a $rootElement, so:
$rootElement.injector()`
returns an undefined value.

I wish to use $rootElement to create sub-elements for test purposes, then tested piece of code can use:
angular.element(localElement).injector()
to retrieve already initialised injector.

[jsuchenia]

As a workaround I can add it to the rootNode by myself, but then I know internals of Angular:
$rootElement.data('$injector', $injector)

[gkalpak]

Hm...I submitted #14034, but tbh I am not sure why you need to call .injector() on elements.
Why can't you just inject the $injector (which is so meta and cool 😛 ) ?

[jsuchenia]

@gkalpak My use case is similar to this one from an angular.injector documentation, so I have an angular app which is using separate framework for drawing in one of used directives (configured externally from JSON file, so I can't inject injector)
In some elements I wish to use data from other angular services, so I need instance of already initialised angular app, and it's working fine (except under ngMock tests)

[gkalpak]

Yeah, 3rd-party libs sound like a valid usecase.