ng e2e no longer supports specifying a project name

[dvmorris]

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Command (mark with an x)

- [ ] new
- [ ] build
- [ ] serve
- [ ] test
- [x] e2e
- [ ] generate
- [ ] add
- [ ] update
- [ ] lint
- [ ] xi18n
- [ ] run
- [ ] config
- [ ] help
- [ ] version
- [ ] doc

Versions

node -v
v10.9.0

npm -v
6.4.1

ng -v
Angular CLI: 6.2.1
Node: 10.9.0
OS: win32 x64
Angular: 6.1.3
... animations, common, compiler, compiler-cli, core, forms
... http, language-service, platform-browser
... platform-browser-dynamic, platform-server, router
... service-worker

Package                            Version
------------------------------------------------------------
@angular-devkit/architect          0.8.1
@angular-devkit/build-angular      0.8.1
@angular-devkit/build-ng-packagr   0.8.1
@angular-devkit/build-optimizer    0.8.1
@angular-devkit/build-webpack      0.8.1
@angular-devkit/core               0.7.4
@angular-devkit/schematics         0.7.4
@angular/cli                       6.2.1
@angular/pwa                       0.7.4
@ngtools/json-schema               1.1.0
@ngtools/webpack                   6.2.1
@schematics/angular                0.7.4
@schematics/update                 0.8.1
ng-packagr                         4.1.1
rxjs                               6.2.2
typescript                         2.9.2
webpack                            4.18.0

Repro steps

• Install angular-cli 6.2.1
• Create an angular workspace with three projects:
  • project1
  • project2
  • project2-e2e - configured with a protractor.conf.js file to run tests against project2
• Try to run ng e2e project2-e2e
• The cli ignores the project name parameter, and tries to find an e2e architect node in angular.json, instead of running the actual project2-e2e configuration specified in angular.json
• Re-order the projects in angular.json to:
  • project2
  • project1
  • project2-e2e
• Re-run ng e2e project2-e2e
  • Because project2 is first in the list, it seems to run e2e tests for that project
• Run ng e2e -h and notice that is no longer an accepted paramter, even thought the docs say that it is still valid.

$ ng e2e -h
usage: ng e2e [options]
options:
  --configuration (-c)
    Specify the configuration to use.
  --prod
    Flag to set configuration to 'production'.

Desired functionality

This seems to work fine in Angular 6.1.4:

• Run ng e2e -h and notice that <project> is an accepted parameter:

$ ng e2e -h
usage: ng e2e <project> [options]
options:
  --configuration (-c)
    Specify the configuration to use.
  --prod
    Flag to set configuration to 'production'.

Mention any other details that might be useful

[dvmorris]

The issue seems to be related to this file, but I am not 100% sure about that: https://github.com/angular/angular-cli/blob/6.2.x/packages/angular/cli/commands/e2e.json

[magicoder10]

I found the same issue. It should include

"project": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The name of the project to run e2e.",
      "$default": {
        "$source": "argv",
        "index": 0
      }
    },

[babeal]

@byliuyang is that something we can do on our end or is it something that needs to change in the cli? We are running into the same problem.

[babeal]

6.1.5 works as well, the problem starts at 6.2.0

[magicoder10]

@babeal It should ideally be changed in the CLI. I currently have a file that overrides e2e.json.