Accessing config in scenario

CodeceptJS
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Hi,

How to access the config value from a Scenario?

I would like to send params when running the scripts with -o but I struggle to understand how I can read them inside a scenario.

Ex: npx codeceptjs run --override ‘{ “data”: {“id”: 555 }}’

In a Scenario:

…
I.sendGetRequest(’/todos/555’);
…

I would like to have the ‘555’ in the request to be dynamic.

Thanks

2

Take a look at this config

I take a dynamic parameter, and add it to container:

After, I can access this parameter from a container:

Scenario('asdas', (I, project) => {});
3

Alternative solution:

4

First of all, thanks for your prompt replies/help.

I looked at all of them, but I was missing the part on how to make the values came from the command line (process.args) instead of process.env.

But I think the best approach in my case is to use https://codecept.io/commands#run

So now I just update the REST endpoints dynamically:

codecept.conf.js
REST: { endpoint: null,

And command line sample:

npx codeceptjs run --override '{ "helpers": {"REST": {"endpoint": "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com"}}}'

I’m still stuck on how to send other custom params from process.args, but the solution above is a first step.

Thanks again

5

Ok just found this in the doc when searching for event listeners:

So now I just use let config = require('codeceptjs').config.get(); to get access to the dynamic configs.

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6

Hey Thanks, this is working fine
Appium: {
app: process.cwd() + “/codeceptJS//APKs/myapk.apk”
}

However, I am looking to pass this process.cwd() from command line while overriding the “app” key in this json.

Something like : npx codeceptjs run --override '{“env”:“sit”,“helpers”:{“Appium”:{“app”:process.cwd() + “/codeceptJS//APKs/myapk.apk”}}

But it is not working and obviously giving JSON not correct error.
Could you please help.

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My 2cents on this, you cannot have “process.cwd()” in the command line, it needs to be in plain text.

This will fail:

npx codeceptjs run --override '{“env”:“sit”,“helpers”:{“Appium”:{“app”:process.cwd() + “/codeceptJS//APKs/myapk.apk”}}

This will work:

npx codeceptjs run --override '{“env”:“sit”,“helpers”:{“Appium”:{“app”:“path/to/codeceptJS//APKs/myapk.apk”}}

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Thanks a lot again Mickael. I actually want to override the path to apk via command line to test multiple apk through package.json file.

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Thats off topic, but you my guess is that you could achieve that with a shell script.