Karma test paste event

I have a simple component that handle paste event into a form input.

The form:

this.searchForm = this.formBuilder.group({
query: [ null, [Validators.required] ]
});

onPaste(event) {
event.preventDefault();
const formattedQuery = event.clipboardData.getData('text/plain')
.split(/,?[\r\n\t]+\s?/)
.join(', ')
.replace(/,\s?$/g, '');

this.searchForm.get('query').setValue(formattedQuery);
}


Now I am trying to test that and it looks like this:

it('should reformat pasted data', () => {
const queryField = fixture.debugElement.query(By.css('input[type="search"]'));
queryField.nativeElement.dispatchEvent(new ClipboardEvent('paste', {
dataType: 'text/plain',
data: '123\r123'
}));
fixture.detectChanges();
expect(queryField.nativeElement.value).toBe('123, 123');
// also tried expect(component.searchForm.get('query').value).toBe('123, 123');
});


But as a result i've got

Expected '' to be '123, 123'


If i do console.log(queryField.nativeElement) it shows the input, but why it doesn't handle new ClipboardEvent('paste') event?

<input class="ng-untouched ng-pristine ng-invalid" formcontrolname="query" type="search" ng-reflect-name="query">


Full component you can find here https://stackblitz.com/edit/angular-cp9yhx?file=app/hello.component.ts

What's wrong with my unit test?

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