How can I use command line arguments in Angularjs Protractor?

ghz 1years ago ⋅ 9822 views

Question

I'm using Protractor to perform some end to end tests, and I'd like to pass in login credentials through the command line instead of storing them in a spec file. I found one post where someone used process.argv.forEach, but how can I store those values and use them in another spec file? I have a file called login-spec.js where I'd like to use the command-line arguments.

Thanks!

Answer

In the reference config this section can be interesting:

  // The params object will be passed directly to the protractor instance,
  // and can be accessed from your test. It is an arbitrary object and can
  // contain anything you may need in your test.
  // This can be changed via the command line as:
  //   --params.login.user 'Joe'
  params: {
    login: {
      user: 'Jane',
      password: '1234'
    }
  },

And you can access the params object like this in your code: browser.params.login.user

So in your case if you call protractor like this:

protractor ... --params.login.user=abc --params.login.password=123

You can access these variables in your code like this:

browser.params.login.user and browser.params.login.password

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