Can't intercept Cypress API call - cypress

I have stuck with Cypress fixtures. Can't intercept an XHR request with SSR and navigation routing.
cypress/integration/page.js:
const fetch = require("unfetch")
describe("/about", () => {
beforeEach(() => {
cy.visit("/", { // Visit home page to trigger SSR
onBeforeLoad (win) {
win.fetch = fetch // replace fetch with xhr implementation
},
})
})
it("Has a correct title", () => {
cy.server()
cy.fixture("about").then(about => {
// about object is correct here, like {title: "About+"}
cy.route("GET", "http://localhost:8080/api/documents/url", about) // Not sure where .route should be
cy.get(".main > :nth-child(1) > a").click() // Navigate to the /about page
cy.route("GET", "http://localhost:8080/api/documents/url", about) // Tried both ways
// This hits my server API without stubbing, getting {title: "About"}
cy.title().should("eq", "About+") // About != About+
})
})
})
cypress/fixtures/about.json:
{"title": "About+"}
I see an XHR request (type=xhr) in Dev Tools and it doesn't use the above about stub object but hits real API instead. Why? Double checked URL and method – 100% the same. Can it be that route is coupled to visit and ignores click-based routing?!

Rechecking this once again, I've found a solution. Let me share the details for everyone interested:
1) I use Next.js which is an excellent tool for SSR but it doesn't allow you to disable server-side rendering (yet) according to this and this issues.
2) You can use Cypress with SSR pages but, in this way, you're limited to testing real HTML. Which means you have to either couple tests to real data (not good in most cases) or stub the database itself (slow). In general, you want to stub HTTP requests.
3) Cypress can't stub fetch requests and mocking fetch with XHR-based implementation was trickier than I thought.
First you need to:
// cypress/integration/your-test.js
Cypress.on('window:before:load', (win) => {
delete win.fetch
})
Then:
// pages/your-page.js
Entry.getInitialProps = async function() {
window.fetch = require("unfetch").default
...
}
Other combinations of delete & update code lines I tried didn't yield positive results. For example, when I had window.fetch = line in the test file it didn't work and fetch.toString() gave "native code". Not sure why, no time to explore further.
Axios solves the above but I don't like to bloat my bundle with extra stuff. You can inject XHR-based fetch for tests only.
4) The most important missing piece. You need to wait for route.
it("Has a correct title", () => {
cy.visit("/")
cy.server()
cy.route("GET", "http://localhost:8080/api/documents/url/about", {title: "About+"}).as("about")
cy.get("[href='/about']").click()
cy.wait("#about") // !!!
cy.get("h1").contains("About+")
})

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How to get cypress to block datadog requests

We recently installed datadogRUM in our application and now so many DD events kick off in my cypress test that they cause a timeout and failure
I have tried cy.intercept in multiple ways:
cy.intercept('POST', 'https://rum.browser-intake-datadoghq.com/*', {
statusCode: 202,
body: {
},
}).as('datadogRUM');
cy.intercept('POST', 'https://rum-http-intake.logs.datadoghq.com/*', {});
cy.intercept(/\.*datadog.*$/, (req) => {
console.log('DATADOG INTERCEPTED');
req.reply("console.log('datadog intercept');");
});
cy.intercept({
method: 'POST',
url: '/\.*datadog.*$/'
}, req => {
req.destroy();
});
cy.intercept('POST', 'https://rum-http-intake.logs.datadoghq.com/*', { forceNetworkError: true });
just to start. I feel like I've tried every possible variation. I also created a cypress.json file in my /cypress folder
{
"blockHosts": "*datadoghq.com/*"
}
I get hundreds of calls back in my network tab to https://rum.browser-intake-datadoghq.com/api/v2/rum with the preview of console.log('datadog intercept') as I've intercepted them. They all display the solid blue line as if they are being intercepted and blocked. When I set the intercept to an alias I see the alias in my cypress runner window. But there are no 503s or 404s anywhere. The page still fills up with events, cypress gets overloaded, and my test times out.
I even tried copying the data-dog-rum.ts from the src/utils folder to cypress/utils and either commenting out everything or setting the sampleRate to 0, no dice.
EDIT: I am able to get the test passing by adding
Cypress.on('uncaught:exception', () => {
// returning false here prevents Cypress from
// failing the test
return false;
});
to my support/index.js but now whether I add a cy.intercept in my test makes absolutely no difference. The page still fills up with datadog requests regardless, and whether they come back as 200/pending/cancelled, they still delay a single it block in a spec to where it takes 60 seconds to run instead of approx 10 seconds
You can use javascript to perform the stub inside the routeHandler
cy.intercept('*', (req) => { // look at everything
if (req.url.includes('datadoghq')) { // add more conditions if needed
req.reply({}) // prevent request reaching the server
}
})
blockhosts should work with
Pass only the host
{
"blockHosts": "*datadoghq.com"
}

How do I log a specific field in API requests within Cypress

I want to cypress.log() out a specific field in the request header whenever my webapp makes requests that way when it fails and adds screenshots/logs I can grab that that requestId that failed.
Is there a way to setup cypress so that for all network requests it checks for this field and log it?
I can add a cy.intercept within each individual file but I want a more generic way to handle this.
Cypress.log is the synchronous version of cy.log().
Add middleware: true to the intercept to pass request to other intercepts.
cy.intercept({ url: '*', middleware: true }, (req) => {
const headerValue = req.headers?['x-custom-headers']
if (headerValue) {
Cypress.log({
name: 'x-custom-header',
message: headerValue
})
}
})
You'll get an Cypress promise error if you try to use cy.log() to log out every request header in an cy.intercept() within a routeHandler callback. This would also make it kind of tough to log to a CI terminal as well.
Instead you can console.log to dev tools. To make it apply to all tests, you can wrap it in a beforeEach() and place it in the support/index.js file.
// support/index.js
beforeEach(() => {
cy.intercept('*', (req) => {
req.continue((res) => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(req.headers))
})
})
})

How to wait for a successful response in Cypress tests

Background
I use 3 back-end servers to provide fault tolerance for one of my online SaaS application. All important API calls, such as getting user data, contact all 3 servers and use value of first successfully resolved response, if any.
export function getSuccessValueOrThrow$<T>(
observables$: Observable<T>[],
tryUntilMillies = 30000,
): Observable<T> {
return race(
...observables$.map(observable$ => {
return observable$.pipe(
timeout(tryUntilMillies),
catchError(err => {
return of(err).pipe(delay(5000), mergeMap(_err => throwError(_err)));
}),
);
})
);
}
getSuccessValueOrThrow$ get called as following:
const shuffledApiDomainList = ['server1-domain', 'server2-domain', 'server3-domain';
const sessionInfo = await RequestUtils.getSuccessValueOrThrow(
...(shuffledApiDomainList.map(shuffledDomain => this.http.get<SessionDetails>(`${shuffledDomain}/file/converter/comm/session/info`))),
).toPromise();
Note: if one request resolve faster than others, usually the case, race rxjs function will cancel the other two requests. On Chrome dev network tab it will look like bellow where first request sent out was cancelled due to being too slow.
Question:
I use /file/converter/comm/session/info (lets call it Endpoint 1) to get some data related to a user. This request dispatched to all 3 back-end servers. If one resolve, then remaining 2 request will be cancelled, i.e. they will return null.
On my Cypress E2E test I have
cy.route('GET', '/file/converter/comm/session/info').as('getSessionInfo');
cy.visit('https://www.ps2pdf.com/compress-mp4');
cy.wait('#getSessionInfo').its('status').should('eq', 200)
This sometimes fails if the since getSessionInfo alias was hooked on to a request that ultimately get cancelled by getSuccessValueOrThrow$ because it wasn't the request that succeeded.Bellow image shows how 1 out of 3 request aliased with getSessionInfo succeeded but the test failed since the first request failed.
In Cypress, how do I wait for a successful i.e. status = 200 request?
Approach 1
Use .should() callback and repeat the cy.wait call if status was not 200:
function waitFor200(routeAlias, retries = 2) {
cy.wait(routeAlias).then(xhr => {
if (xhr.status === 200) return // OK
else if (retries > 0) waitFor200(routeAlias, retries - 1); // wait for the next response
else throw "All requests returned non-200 response";
})
}
// Usage example.
// Note that no assertions are chained here,
// the check has been performed inside this function already.
waitFor200('#getSessionInfo');
// Proceed with your test
cy.get('button').click(); // ...
Approach 2
Revise what it is that you want to test in the first place.
Chances are - there is something on the page that tells the user about a successful operation. E.g. show/hide a spinner or a progress bar, or just that the page content is updated to show new data fetched from the backend.
So in this approach you would remove cy.wait() altogether, and focus on what the user sees on the page - do some assertions on the actual page content.
cy.wait() yields an object containing the HTTP request and response properties of the XHR. The error you're getting is because you're looking for property status in the XHR object, but it is a property of the Response Object. You first have to get to the Response Object:
cy.wait('#getSessionInfo').should(xhr => {
expect(xhr.response).to.have.property('status', 200);
});
Edit: Since our backend uses graphql, all calls use the single /graphql endpoint. So I had to come up with a solution to differentiate each call.
I did that by using the onResponse() method of cy.route() and accumulating the data in Cypress environment object:
cy.route({
method: 'GET',
url: '/file/converter/comm/session/info',
onResponse(xhr) {
if (xhr.status === 200) {
Cypress.env('sessionInfo200') = xhr;
}
}
})
You can then use it like this:
cy.wrap(Cypress.env()).should('have.property', 'sessionInfo200');
I wait like this:
const isOk = cy.wait("#getSessionInfo").then((xhr) => {
return (xhr.status === 200);
});

Cypress.io - sitemap.xml validation test

:) I chose for automated testing a tool Cypress.io.
I need some tests for my sitemap.xml document and I dont know how to do that :(
I have tried install an npm package libxmljs
npm install libxmljs --save
and load it as plugin in cypress/plugins/index.js
const libxmljs = require('libxmljs');
But there is a problem with this. It shows an error
The plugins file is missing or invalid.
Your pluginsFile is set to /home/my-app/cypress/plugins/index.js, but
either the file is missing,
it contains a syntax error, or threw an error when required.
The pluginsFile must be a .js or .coffee file.
Please fix this, or set pluginsFile to false if a plugins file is not
necessary for your project.
Error: The module '/home/my-app/node_modules/libxmljs/build/Release/xmljs.node'
Please help me, how can I use libxmljs in Cypress.io or how i should write tests for Sitemap.xml in this end-to-end testing tool.
Thanks for your time! :)
Although #NoriSte's answer is correct, I found a simpler alternative without the need for any 3rd party code.
Cypress API exposes all the necessary methods to:
load a file (the sitemap.xml in your case): cy.request.
parse XML file (it exposes the jQuery API): Cypress.$
check if a page successfully loads (with a 200 status code): cy.visit
This is the following test that I use to test if all of the pages declared in the sitemap are loading (and make sure it doesn't point to any 404):
describe('Sitemap', () => {
// initialize the url array
let urls = []
// be sure to get the url list before executing any tests
before(async () => {
// getch the sitemap content
const response = await cy.request('sitemap.xml')
// convert sitemap xml body to an array of urls
urls = Cypress.$(response.body)
// according to the sitemap.xml spec,
// the url value should reside in a <loc /> node
// https://www.google.com/sitemaps/protocol.html
.find('loc')
// map to a js array
.toArray()
// get the text of the <loc /> node
.map(el => el.innerText)
})
it('should succesfully load each url in the sitemap', () => {
urls.forEach(cy.visit)
})
})
If you want to use libxmljs to parse your sitemap you should
read the sitemap itself with cy.request
add a custom task to Cypress (because libxmljs is a node library, cy.task is the only way to consume Node.js scripts from your Cypress tests)
returns the parsed data from your task
assert about it in a Cypress test
Those are the high-level steps you need to do 😉
To add to a great answer by gion_13, here’s his solution refactored to utilize Cypress promise-like-commands instead of async calls.
describe('Sitemap', () => {
let urls = [];
before(() => {
cy.request('sitemap.xml')
.as('sitemap')
.then((response) => {
urls = Cypress.$(response.body)
.find('loc')
.toArray()
.map(el => el.innerText);
});
});
it('should succesfully load each url in the sitemap', () => {
urls.forEach(cy.visit);
});
});
Using async in Cypress may raise error ‘Cypress detected that you returned a promise in a test, but also invoked one or more cy commands inside of that promise’.
describe('Sitemap', () => {
let urls = [];
before(() => {
const parser = new DOMParser();
cy.request('/sitemap.xml').then((response) => {
const document = parser.parseFromString(response.body, 'application/xml');
const parsedUrls = document.getElementsByTagName('loc');
urls = Array.from(parsedUrls).map((item) => item.innerHTML);
});
});
it('Should load each url from the sitemap', () => {
urls.forEach(cy.visit);
});
});

How can I alias specific GraphQL requests in Cypress?

In Cypress, it is well-documented that you can alias specific network requests, which you can then "wait" on. This is especially helpful if you want to do something in Cypress after a specific network request has fired and finished.
Example below from Cypress documentation:
cy.server()
cy.route('POST', '**/users').as('postUser') // ALIASING OCCURS HERE
cy.visit('/users')
cy.get('#first-name').type('Julius{enter}')
cy.wait('#postUser')
However, since I'm using GraphQL in my app, aliasing no longer becomes a straightforward affair. This is because all GraphQL queries share one endpoint /graphql.
Despite it not being possible to differentiate between different graphQL queries using the url endpoint alone, it is possible to differentiate graphQL queries using operationName (refer to following image).
Having dug through the documentation, there doesn't appear to be a way to alias graphQL endpoints using operationName from the request body. I'm also returning the operationName (yellow arrow) as a custom property in my response header; however, I haven't managed to find a way to use it to alias specific graphQL queries either.
FAILED METHOD 1: This method attempts to use the purple arrow shown in image.
cy.server();
cy.route({
method: 'POST',
url: '/graphql',
onResponse(reqObj) {
if (reqObj.request.body.operationName === 'editIpo') {
cy.wrap('editIpo').as('graphqlEditIpo');
}
},
});
cy.wait('#graphqlEditIpo');
This method doesn't work since the graphqlEditIpo alias is registered at runtime and as such, the error I receive is as follows.
CypressError: cy.wait() could not find a registered alias for: '#graphqlEditIpo'. Available aliases are: 'ipoInitial, graphql'.
FAILED METHOD 2: This method attempts to use the yellow arrow shown in image.
cy.server();
cy.route({
method: 'POST',
url: '/graphql',
headers: {
'operation-name': 'editIpo',
},
}).as('graphql');
cy.wait('graphql');
This method doesn't work because the headers property in the options object for cy.route is actually meant to accept response headers for stubbed routes per the docs. Here, I'm trying to use it to identify my specific graphQL query, which obviously won't work.
Which leads me to my question: How can I alias specific graphQL queries/mutations in Cypress? Have I missed something?
The intercept API introduced in 6.0.0 supports this via the request handler function. I used it in my code like so:
cy.intercept('POST', '/graphql', req => {
if (req.body.operationName === 'queryName') {
req.alias = 'queryName';
} else if (req.body.operationName === 'mutationName') {
req.alias = 'mutationName';
} else if (...) {
...
}
});
Where queryName and mutationName are the names of your GQL operations. You can add an additional condition for each request that you would like to alias. You can then wait for them like so:
// Wait on single request
cy.wait('#mutationName');
// Wait on multiple requests.
// Useful if several requests are fired at once, for example on page load.
cy.wait(['#queryName, #mutationName',...]);
The docs have a similar example here: https://docs.cypress.io/api/commands/intercept.html#Aliasing-individual-requests.
This works for me!
Cypress.Commands.add('waitForGraph', operationName => {
const GRAPH_URL = '/api/v2/graph/';
cy.route('POST', GRAPH_URL).as("graphqlRequest");
//This will capture every request
cy.wait('#graphqlRequest').then(({ request }) => {
// If the captured request doesn't match the operation name of your query
// it will wait again for the next one until it gets matched.
if (request.body.operationName !== operationName) {
return cy.waitForGraph(operationName)
}
})
})
Just remember to write your queries with unique names as posible, because the operation name relies on it.
If 'waiting' and not 'aliasing' in itself is the main purpose, the easiest way to do this, as I've encountered thus far, is by aliasing the general graphql requests and then making a recursive function call to 'wait' targeting the newly created alias until you find the specific graphql operation you were looking for.
e.g.
Cypress.Commands.add('waitFor', operationName => {
cy.wait('#graphqlRequest').then(({ request }) => {
if (request.body.operationName !== operationName) {
return cy.waitFor(operationName)
}
})
})
This of course have its caveats and may or may not work in your context. But it works for us.
I hope Cypress enables this in a less hacky way in the future.
PS. I want to give credit to where I got the inspiration to this from, but it seemt to be lost in cyberspace.
Since I was having the same issue and I did not find a real solution for this problem I combined different options and created a workaround that solves my problem. Hopefully this can help someone else too.
I do not really 'wait' for the request to be happen but I catch them all, based on **/graphql url and match the operationName in the request. On a match a function will be executed with the data as parameter. In this function the tests can be defined.
graphQLResponse.js
export const onGraphQLResponse = (resolvers, args) => {
resolvers.forEach((n) => {
const operationName = Object.keys(n).shift();
const nextFn = n[operationName];
if (args.request.body.operationName === operationName) {
handleGraphQLResponse(nextFn)(args.response)(operationName);
}
});
};
const handleGraphQLResponse = (next) => {
return (response) => {
const responseBody = Cypress._.get(response, "body");
return async (alias) => {
await Cypress.Blob.blobToBase64String(responseBody)
.then((blobResponse) => atob(blobResponse))
.then((jsonString) => JSON.parse(jsonString))
.then((jsonResponse) => {
Cypress.log({
name: "wait blob",
displayName: `Wait ${alias}`,
consoleProps: () => {
return jsonResponse.data;
}
}).end();
return jsonResponse.data;
})
.then((data) => {
next(data);
});
};
};
};
In a test file
Bind an array with objects where the key is the operationName and the value is the resolve function.
import { onGraphQLResponse } from "./util/graphQLResponse";
describe("Foo and Bar", function() {
it("Should be able to test GraphQL response data", () => {
cy.server();
cy.route({
method: "POST",
url: "**/graphql",
onResponse: onGraphQLResponse.bind(null, [
{"some operationName": testResponse},
{"some other operationName": testOtherResponse}
])
}).as("graphql");
cy.visit("");
function testResponse(result) {
const foo = result.foo;
expect(foo.label).to.equal("Foo label");
}
function testOtherResponse(result) {
const bar = result.bar;
expect(bar.label).to.equal("Bar label");
}
});
}
Credits
Used the blob command from glebbahmutov.com
This is what you're looking for (New in Cypress 5.6.0):
cy.route2('POST', '/graphql', (req) => {
if (req.body.includes('operationName')) {
req.alias = 'gqlMutation'
}
})
// assert that a matching request has been made
cy.wait('#gqlMutation')
Documentation:
https://docs.cypress.io/api/commands/route2.html#Waiting-on-a-request
I hope that this helps!
I used some of these code examples but had to change it slightly to add the onRequest param to the cy.route and also add the date.Now (could add any auto incrementer, open to other solutions on this) to allow multiple calls to the same GraphQL operation name in the same test. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!
Cypress.Commands.add('waitForGraph', (operationName) => {
const now = Date.now()
let operationNameFromRequest
cy.route({
method: 'POST',
url: '**graphql',
onRequest: (xhr) => {
operationNameFromRequest = xhr.request.body.operationName
},
}).as(`graphqlRequest${now}`)
//This will capture every request
cy.wait(`#graphqlRequest${now}`).then(({ xhr }) => {
// If the captured request doesn't match the operation name of your query
// it will wait again for the next one until it gets matched.
if (operationNameFromRequest !== operationName) {
return cy.waitForGraph(operationName)
}
})
})
to use:
cy.waitForGraph('QueryAllOrganizations').then((xhr) => { ...
This is how I managed to differentiate each GraphQL request. We use cypress-cucumber-preprocessor so we have a common.js file in /cypress/integration/common/ where we can call a before and beforeEach hook which are called before any feature file.
I tried the solutions here, but couldn't come up with something stable since, in our application, many GraphQL requests are triggered at the same time for some actions.
I ended up storing every GraphQL requests in a global object called graphql_accumulator with a timestamp for each occurence.
It was then easier to manage individual request with cypress command should.
common.js:
beforeEach(() => {
for (const query in graphql_accumulator) {
delete graphql_accumulator[query];
}
cy.server();
cy.route({
method: 'POST',
url: '**/graphql',
onResponse(xhr) {
const queryName = xhr.requestBody.get('query').trim().split(/[({ ]/)[1];
if (!(queryName in graphql_accumulator)) graphql_accumulator[queryName] = [];
graphql_accumulator[queryName].push({timeStamp: nowStamp('HHmmssSS'), data: xhr.responseBody.data})
}
});
});
I have to extract the queryName from the FormData since we don't have (yet) the key operationName in the request header, but this would be where you would use this key.
commands.js
Cypress.Commands.add('waitGraphQL', {prevSubject:false}, (queryName) => {
Cypress.log({
displayName: 'wait gql',
consoleProps() {
return {
'graphQL Accumulator': graphql_accumulator
}
}
});
const timeMark = nowStamp('HHmmssSS');
cy.wrap(graphql_accumulator, {log:false}).should('have.property', queryName)
.and("satisfy", responses => responses.some(response => response['timeStamp'] >= timeMark));
});
It's also important to allow cypress to manage GraphQL requests by adding these settings in /cypress/support/index.js:
Cypress.on('window:before:load', win => {
// unfilters incoming GraphQL requests in cypress so we can see them in the UI
// and track them with cy.server; cy.route
win.fetch = null;
win.Blob = null; // Avoid Blob format for GraphQL responses
});
I use it like this:
cy.waitGraphQL('QueryChannelConfigs');
cy.get(button_edit_market).click();
cy.waitGraphQL will wait for the latest target request, the one that will be stored after the call.
Hope this helps.
Somewhere else this method was suggested.
Btw it all becomes a bit easier once you migrate to Cypress v5.x and make use of the new route (route2) method.
Our use case involved multiple GraphQL calls on one page. We had to use a modified version of the responses from above:
Cypress.Commands.add('createGql', operation => {
cy.route({
method: 'POST',
url: '**/graphql',
}).as(operation);
});
Cypress.Commands.add('waitForGql', (operation, nextOperation) => {
cy.wait(`#${operation}`).then(({ request }) => {
if (request.body.operationName !== operation) {
return cy.waitForGql(operation);
}
cy.route({
method: 'POST',
url: '**/graphql',
}).as(nextOperation || 'gqlRequest');
});
});
The issue is that ALL GraphQL requests share the same URL, so once you create a cy.route() for one GraphQL query, Cypress will match all the following GraphQL queries to that. After it matches, we set cy.route() to just a default label of gqlRequest or the next query.
Our test:
cy.get(someSelector)
.should('be.visible')
.type(someText)
.createGql('gqlOperation1')
.waitForGql('gqlOperation1', 'gqlOperation2') // Create next cy.route() for the next query, or it won't match
.get(someSelector2)
.should('be.visible')
.click();
cy.waitForGql('gqlOperation2')
.get(someSelector3)
.should('be.visible')
.click();

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