I would like to fetch an email from an email provider and i know that i could use axios or any other http client however since i added cypress can i just use cy.request to get data and store it or it should not be used for such purposes.
I can use axios as it shows here but why if i have cy.request
context('Verify email', () => {
let inbox;
before((done) => {
// Configure timeout
this.timeout(1000*60*5); // five minutes
// Query the inbox
axios.get(`${ENDPOINT}&tag=${TAG}×tamp_from=${startTimestamp}&livequery=true`).then((response) => {
inbox = response.data;
done();
}).catch((err) => {
done(err);
});
});
You could store the response in a Cypress environment variable.
context('Verify email', () => {
before(() => {
cy.request(`${ENDPOINT}}&tag=${TAG}×tamp_from=${startTimestamp}&livequery=true`)
.then((response) => {
Cypress.env('inbox', response.body);
});
});
it('test', () => {
// reference the variable by Cypress.env('inbox')
});
});