[Feature] how to discard the videos for passed scenarios

[siva90144]

I am enabling the video recording feature. I don't want to save the video if scenario passed. I need failed scenario's videos need to be saved(I want to save the space while running from cloud).

how can I achieve it?

here is sample code i used to enable it.

browserContext.set(getBrowser().newContext(new Browser.NewContextOptions().setViewportSize(width, height).setRecordVideoDir(Paths.get("./target/videos/")) .setRecordVideoSize(1280, 720)));

[yury-s]

You can manually delete the video file after the test has finished:

    try (Playwright playwright = Playwright.create()) {
      Browser browser = playwright.chromium().launch();
      BrowserContext context = browser.newContext(
        new Browser.NewContextOptions().setViewportSize(1280, 720).setRecordVideoDir(Paths.get("./videos/")).setRecordVideoSize(1280, 720));
      boolean passed = true;
      Page page = context.newPage();
      page.navigate("http://playwright.dev");
      page.close();
      if (passed) {
        Files.delete(page.video().path());
      }
      context.close();
    }

Or you can save the videos for failing tests with a nice name (page.video().saveAs(Paths.get("nice_name.webm"))) in a different location and then delete the entire videos dir after the context has been closed.

Will that work for you?

[siva90144]

@yury-s At glance, for first solution, I don't think it will work but i will try(if its not deleting other video files i am good as i am running scenarios in parallel).

for second solution, I might need to do some work while generating the report. for failed scenarios need to attach video as well.

In near future can I expect this feature as some configuration like just setting true or false?
It might be a good feature because in real time people will run 100's of test cases daily and don't want to store all the videos as it space constraints

[yury-s]

In near future can I expect this feature as some configuration like just setting true or false?

This is a responsibility of the test runner, Playwright as a library does not know if your test passed or failed and instead provides you full control over the video file after the page is closed. There are no plans to change this functionality, Node.js version of playwright comes with a test runner that is implemented on top of the same APIs, so if the proposed solutions don't work in your case we'd like to learn why so.

[siva90144]

@yury-s

The above solution worked and thanks a lot.