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cold-cat-63632

02/27/2023, 7:01 PM

do i need to write text to a file and then access it from there or there is any other more efficient way of doing this?

dazzling-thailand-9844

02/27/2023, 9:18 PM

There are different ways to do this. For example, in the first file you can export the alias as a function:

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export const getMsgSubject = () => {
  cy.get(elements.MSGS.MSGS_TABLE_CELL)
    .first()
    .invoke('text')
    .as('custToEmpMessageSubject')
}

Then in the second file, you can import the function and use it to get the value of the alias:

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import { getMsgSubject } from './file1'
it('Test Case', () => {
getMsgSubject()
cy.get('@custToEmpMessageSubject').then((text) => {
// Use the value of the alias here
})
})

dazzling-thailand-9844

02/27/2023, 9:31 PM

Another way is to use for example cy.window(): In the first file:

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getMsgSubject() {
  cy.get(elements.MSGS.MSGS_TABLE_CELL)
    .first()
    .then(($element) => {
      cy.window().its('messageSubject', $element.text())
    })
}

In the second file:

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it('Test Case', () => {
    cy.window().then((win) => {
      const messageSubject = win.messageSubject
      // Use the value of the variable here
    })
  })

dazzling-thailand-9844

02/27/2023, 9:38 PM

In the same way, you can `setItem `in `localStorage `in the first file and use

win.localStorage.getItem

in the second. Or use

Cypress.env()

in the same way...

cold-cat-63632

02/28/2023, 4:42 PM

@dazzling-thailand-9844 thank you very much. Let me try these out. Thanks for taking time out to help!

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