Conditional logic based off of currentRetry?

[joby-aydin]

The issue is: I want to reload the URL for only my failing tests.

describe(`validate product metadata`, () => {
  before(() => {
    cy.clearCookies();
    cy.visit(Cypress.env('url'));
  });

  beforeEach(() => {
    Cypress.currentTest.retries(4);
    cy.reload();
  });

  context('product title', () => {
    it('should be visible', () => {
      cy.get('title').should('be.visible');
    });
  });
});

When I run with that way, it works. However, it reloads every tests. Is it possible to reload only for retry tests?

[kuceb]

Yes, I believe you can access the currentRetry number off of currentTest

you should be able to use

if (Cypress.currentTest.currentRetry()) {
	cy.reload()
}

It'll be 0 on the first run, and increment for every retry

Let me know if that works!

[joby-aydin]

Unfortunately, it is not working. Acting like there is not any condition and it runs reload() every time even if for the first run.

[kuceb]

@eyup-aydin have you tried logging out what Cypress.currentTest.currentRetry() is? I'm not exactly sure what you've tried and what you don't think is working

[joby-aydin]

I did this way. Am I doing wrong? Thank you for your time and support.

describe(`validate product metadata`, () => {
  before(() => {
    cy.clearCookies();
    cy.visit(Cypress.env('url'));
  });

  beforeEach(() => {
    Cypress.currentTest.retries();
  });

  context('product title', () => {
    it('should be visible', () => {
      if (Cypress.currentTest.retries()) {
            cy.reload();
      }
      cy.get('title').should('be.visible');
    });
  });
});

[kuceb]

@eyup-aydin yes, you're calling retries instead of currentRetry

I've tested this and it works, so closing for now

[mattrlong]

Hi @bkucera, do you know if this above logic is available with the native Cypress retries implementation in v5?

Using the same implementation I'm receiving the following error:

Cannot read property 'currentRetry' of undefined
Stacktrace
TypeError: Cannot read property 'currentRetry' of undefined

[kuceb]

@mattrlong good question. If you use function () {} syntax for your test callback you may use this.test.currentRetry().

Otherwise you can use cy.state('test').currentRetry().

[mattrlong]

this.test.currentRetry() only works within .it statements. Some of our retry handling resides within mocha hooks, which always returns 0. This approach would also mean needing to determine the retry number within the tests and passing into any imported modules, so becomes a quite messy.

cy.state('test').currentRetry() looks to offer what we need though 👍

[dcmariotti]

Had the same issue here. cy.state('test').currentRetry() solved it. Maybe this Cypress.currentTest.currentRetry deprecation should be better documented on Migration to Cypres 5.0.0.