Spy before ngOnInit is called.

[grosch]

I'm submitting a...

[X] Feature request

Current behavior

Would be cool if we could install spies before a component is initialized. I need to 'spy' on something that's called from ngOnInit. Best I can tell, I need to set detectChanges to false in the createFactoryComponent call, and then in most every test I end up having to do this:

it('does ...', () => {
    spectator = createComponent()
    spyOn(spectator.component, 'myMethod')
    spectator.component.ngOnInit()
    spectator.component.detectComponentChanges()

   ...
})

Expected behavior

Some way to specify the spies to be created before the ngOnInit call happens.

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

Get rid of a bunch of boilerplate code

Environment

Angular version: 11.2.8
Spectator: 7.1.0