I have a custom commands created:

cy.createUser()

which implementation looks like this:

Cypress.Commands.add('createUser', (user: User, userNumber: number) => {
    user.name = `User ${userNumber}`
    cy.request({
        method: 'POST',
        url: '/createUserEndpoint',
        body: user,
        headers: {
            authorization: 'token'
        }
    }).then(response => {
        return response.body;
    });
});

declare global {
    namespace Cypress {
        interface Chainable {
            createUser(user: User, userNumber: number): Chainable<void>;
        }
    }
}

And in the test to create let's say 3 users one after another I have to do this:

import { userData } from '../../fixtures'
let user: User = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(userData));

it('test', () => {
    cy.createUser(user, 1)
      .createUser(user, 2)
      .createUser(user, 3);
)};

But is it possible to create a custom command which would chain these commands inside it? Something like:

Cypress.Commands.add('createUsers', (user: User, usersNumber: number) => {
    for (let i = 1; i < usersNumber+1: i++) {
        user.name = `User ${userNumber}`
        cy.request({
            method: 'POST',
            url: '/createUserEndpoint',
            body: user,
            headers: {
                authorization: 'token'
            }
        }).then(response => {
            return response.body;
        });
    }
});

And in the test I would like to have:

import { userData } from '../../fixtures'
let user: User = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(userData));

it('test', () => {
    cy.createUsers(user, 3);
)};

But this code doesn't work the way I would expect it to. Cypress sends a request with the same data of the last iteration so with Body: {...,"name":"User 3",...} Is it possible to implement one cystom command which would chain multiple commands on each other for a given number? How to do it?

Does it work if you try this?

cy.request({
            method: 'POST',
            url: '/createUserEndpoint',
            body: { ...user, name: `User ${userNumber}`},
            headers: {
                authorization: 'token'
            }

I'm guessing setting

body

to

user

is passing by ref, and due to Cypress's command queueing system, all of them are going to read

user

to whatever value you set last. Instead you should try to clone

user

and pass it into

body

, so that each request is reading from its own unique

user

object instance.

Thanks for the answer. This is what I assumed but do you know how to properly clone such an object?

in the example I gave, it does a shallow clone of all the first-level properties in user, does it not work?

Great, it worked! Many thanks for quick help!

no worries 🙂