How to run beforeInitialPageLoad conditionally? #61

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1. JacksonGL commented on Feb 2, 2023

   

   JacksonGL

   on Feb 2, 2023

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   Hi @saxenarajat, please check out the answers below:

   Run beforeInitiaPageLoad only when the session is not found

   Could you explain a little bit about the use case for this? One thing to try is to invoke await page.goto(url) inside beforeInitiaPageLoad and see if it can establish a session (although the session would be different from the session created from url).

   how to check if the user already has a session

   One way is to check the user session in the action callback via the page argument.

   Clear the session so that beforeInitialPageLoad can work without interruption.

   beforeInitialPageLoad is the optional callback before establishing a session, not sure what interruption means in this context. Could you elaborate more on your use cases and what problem you are trying to solve?
2. saxenarajat commented on Feb 3, 2023

   

   saxenarajat

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   Thanks @JacksonGL for replying,

   So I am trying to test a protected route in my app. If a user is not signed in, she would be redirected to the login screen before she could access that route. I added the logic to log in (searching of email/password fields and filling in the details) in the beforeInitialPageLoad method and it works fine.

   However, when I re-run the scenario subsequently, it breaks as the user already have a session and is not redirected to the login screen.
3. JacksonGL commented on Feb 3, 2023

   

   JacksonGL

   on Feb 3, 2023

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   Thanks for sharing the context @saxenarajat

   I would recommend using the cookies callback and void logging in if possible.

   As an alternative for re-running the scenario, the beforeInitialPageLoad could use Puppeteer APIs to check the url of the redirected page, if the user is not redirected to the login page, just skip the login logic.
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   closed this as completedon Feb 8, 2023
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