Bootstrap deferal is in angular as of 1.0.6! Update to use real Angular and slight fixes to make it work with the unmodified Angular lib.

Author: juliemr

httpspec.js

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ ptor.findElement(webdriver.By.id('data')).getText().then(function(text) {
 ptor.clearMockModules();
 ptor.addMockModule('moduleA', mockModuleA);
 
-driver.get('http://www.google.com'); // need to navigate away from an Angular page so that it will
+//driver.get('http://www.google.com'); // need to navigate away from an Angular page so that it will
                                      // bootstrap again.
 
 ptor.get('http://localhost:8000/app/index.html#/bindings');

protractor.js

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ exports.wrapDriver = function(webdriver) {
       moduleNames = [],
       moduleScripts = [];
 
-  var PROTRACTOR_URL_LABEL = '_WAITFORMODULES';
+  var DEFER_LABEL = 'NG_DEFER_BOOTSTRAP!';
 
   var waitForAngular = function() {
     return driver.executeAsyncScript(function() {
@@ -45,11 +45,10 @@ exports.wrapDriver = function(webdriver) {
      * protractor.get('foo.com'); 
      */
     get: function(destination) {
-      var parsed = url.parse(destination);
-      parsed.hash = (parsed.hash ? parsed.hash : '#') + PROTRACTOR_URL_LABEL;
-      var modifiedUrl = url.format(parsed);
-      driver.get(modifiedUrl);
-      // At this point, Angular will pause for us, until angular.resumeBootstrapWithExtraModules is called.
+      driver.get('about:blank');
+      driver.executeScript('window.name += "' + DEFER_LABEL + '";' + 
+			   'window.location.href = "' + destination + '"');
+      // At this point, Angular will pause for us, until angular.resumeBootstrap is called.
 
       for (var i = 0; i < moduleScripts.length; ++i) {
 	driver.executeScript(moduleScripts[i]); // Should this be async?
@@ -58,7 +57,7 @@ exports.wrapDriver = function(webdriver) {
       driver.executeAsyncScript(function() {
 	var callback = arguments[arguments.length - 1];
 	// Continue to bootstrap Angular.
-	angular.resumeBootstrapWithExtraModules(arguments[0]);
+	angular.resumeBootstrap(arguments[0]);
 	callback();
       }, moduleNames);
     }

testapp/app/index.html

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
   <!-- In production use:
   <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.2/angular.min.js"></script>
   -->
-  <script src="lib/angular/angular.js"></script>
+  <script src="lib/angular_v1.0.6/angular.js"></script>
   <script src="js/app.js"></script>
   <script src="js/services.js"></script>
   <script src="js/controllers.js"></script>