I have 2 different commands that I intend to use inside each other. The 1st one generates an object and the second one uses it to send as body of a cy.request. They look like this
Cypress.Commands.add("objectGeneration", function(search, method, block){
let body = {}
if(search === 'something') {
body.search = search,
body.method = method,
body.block = block
}
return body
})
Cypress.Commands.add("sendReq", (search, method, block) {
cy.request({
method: 'POST',
URL: 'URL',
body: cy.objectGeneration(search, method, block)
})
})
In my test I call them this way (where each testCase variable comes from a helper object I import into my test case.
it("Name of the test", function(){
cy.sendReq(testCase.search, testCase.method, testCase.block).then((resp => {..}...
})
When trying to run this, I get the following Cypress error:
The body parameter supplied to cy.request() contained a circular reference at the path specwindow body can only be a string or an object with no circular references.
All of this would work fine when objectGeneration was just a function and not a command. I think my issue might have to do with the return in a command. Any suggestions? Thanks
Ran into a similar issue trying to send a Decimal value (using decimal.js) as part of the body.
In the end I serialized the object myself and sent it this in the request. In your case I would think that this should also work:
Cypress.Commands.add("sendReq", (search, method, block) {
const serialized = JSON.stringify(cy.objectGeneration(search, method, block))
cy.request({
method: 'POST',
URL: 'URL',
body: serialized,
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }
})
})