I'm building a test in cypress where I need to extract part of a label in a button (I already have a selector for it), store it and use it later in the test for a .should('contain', label) assertion.
I've tried doing the following:
cy.assertObjectIsFocused(selector[Cypress.env(common.APP_NAME)].newPlayer.btnNextEpisode);
cy.get(selector[Cypress.env(common.APP_NAME)].newPlayer.btnNextEpisodeLabel)
.invoke('attr', common.TEXTURE_TEXT)
.and('match', /S\d+ E\d+/)
.as('nextEpisodeLabel');
...
cy.get('@nextEpisodeLabel').then((label) => {
cy.get(
selector[Cypress.env(common.APP_NAME)].newPlayer.playerAssetEpisodeAndSeasonNumbers,
)
.invoke('attr', common.TEXTURE_TEXT)
.should('contain', label);
});
But it isn't extracting the regex, it's comparing the whole label (I expected the .and('match', /S\d+ E\d+/).as('nextEpisodeLabel'); would store as an alias only the regex of the string, but no, it stores the whole string.
How can I extract only the necessary part of the string so I can later use it in the assertion?
You can do something like this:
cy.assertObjectIsFocused(
selector[Cypress.env(common.APP_NAME)].newPlayer.btnNextEpisode
)
cy.get(selector[Cypress.env(common.APP_NAME)].newPlayer.btnNextEpisodeLabel)
.invoke('attr', common.TEXTURE_TEXT)
.as('nextEpisodeLabel')
...
cy.get('@nextEpisodeLabel').then((label) => {
cy.wrap(label).should('match', /S\d+ E\d+/)
cy.get(
selector[Cypress.env(common.APP_NAME)].newPlayer
.playerAssetEpisodeAndSeasonNumbers
)
.invoke('attr', common.TEXTURE_TEXT)
.should('contain', label)
})
Or, if you want to add the alias based on whether the extracted label matches the regex or not, You can do like this:
cy.assertObjectIsFocused(
selector[Cypress.env(common.APP_NAME)].newPlayer.btnNextEpisode
)
cy.get(selector[Cypress.env(common.APP_NAME)].newPlayer.btnNextEpisodeLabel)
.invoke('attr', common.TEXTURE_TEXT)
.then(($nextEpisodeLabel) => {
if ($nextEpisodeLabel.match(/S\d+ E\d+/)) {
cy.wrap($nextEpisodeLabel).as('nextEpisodeLabel')
}
})
...
cy.get('@nextEpisodeLabel').then((label) => {
cy.get(
selector[Cypress.env(common.APP_NAME)].newPlayer
.playerAssetEpisodeAndSeasonNumbers
)
.invoke('attr', common.TEXTURE_TEXT)
.should('contain', label)
})