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Reputation: 185

Cypress: Can't use --env variables from command line in test file

In my Cypress setup I have the following values (plus others) in my cypress.json file:

{
 "PREPROD": {
    "url": "https://preprod.com",
    "username": "admin",
    "password": "admin"
  },
 "PROD": {
    "url": "https://prod.com",
    "username": "admin",
    "password": "admin"
  }
}

I have my test file located in cypress/integration/test.js

Based on what environment I want to run my test, I'd like to use the values relevant to that environment in my test file

I've tried running like this:

npx cypress run --env environment="PREPROD" --spec "cypress/integration/test.js"

This returns an error saying that environment is not defined.

In my test file I have the following to use the variable from command line:

Cypress.config().environment.username

How do I go about using the variables that I define in command line? I've tried reading the documentation here but its not working for me: Cypress Documentation

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4543

Answers (1)

Erazihel
Erazihel

Reputation: 7615

According to the documentation, you can access the environment variable like this:

Cypress.env('environment')

If you want to get the options depending on this you could do as follow:

const CypressConfiguration = require('cypress.json')

const environment = Cypress.env('environment') || 'PREPROD'

const options = CypressConfiguration[environment]

One other approach would be to use the config-file option:

cypress.prod.json

{
    "url": "https://prod.com",
    "username": "admin",
    "password": "admin"
}

cypress.preprod.json

{
    "url": "https://preprod.com",
    "username": "admin",
    "password": "admin"
}

Then:

npx cypress run --config-file cypress.prod.json --spec "cypress/integration/test.js"

Upvotes: 2

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