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kokito
kokito

Reputation: 1254

watch network with nightwatch

I'm using nightwatch to test the frontend of an application. I'm testing that some buttons are clickable or not.

Is it possible with nightwatch, to know if there was a network request made by the click, or more generally, to watch the network.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 3242

Answers (4)

Ken
Ken

Reputation: 405

Here is the solution to capture the XHR traffic:

https://github.com/Bugazelle/nightwatch-capture-network-traffic

How it is working

  1. Take advantage of the ajaxListener.js

    The js is forked from https://gist.github.com/icodejs/3183154

    This hack will make all the XHR requests as a warn log to console

    {
        "type": "response",
        "syncMode": this.syncMode,
        "method": this.method,
        "url": this.url,
        "requestData": this.requestData,
        "readyState": this.readyState,
        "responseText": this.responseText,
        "responseCode": this.status,
        "responseHeader": this.getAllResponseHeaders()
    }

  1. Then take advantage of Nightwatch API .getLog

    The .getLog could capture the console warn logs for us

Upvotes: 0

Jalil
Jalil

Reputation: 3168

Yes, you can use https://www.npmjs.com/package/nightwatch-xhr in order to watch for Ajax requests from Nightwatch.js.

(I'm one of the maintainers)

Upvotes: 4

Rajesh
Rajesh

Reputation: 31

You cannot with plain nightwatch. It can be done with browsermob which enables to record your browser request and saves in HAR format. You have to integrate browsermob-proxy. I have responded to another similar post. Check this.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/nightwatchjs/NFBi0fnQNT8/Dp9t1-CDBQAJ

Upvotes: 0

the binary
the binary

Reputation: 406

Is it possible with nightwatch, to know if there was a network request made by the click, or more generally, to watch the network.

No it is not.

Upvotes: 0

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