Use fixture as request body shortcut

[bahmutov]

It would be nice to be able to load and send a fixture file by name like

it('finds issues mentioned', function () {
   cy.request('/api', 'fx:pr-opened')
})

Currently, have to load fixture and then send

it('finds issues mentioned', function () {
    cy.fixture('pr-opened')
      .then(data => cy.request('/api', data))
})

[bahmutov]

mirror to cy.route('/api', 'fx:response')

[Elshaikh]

hello all ,
@jennifer-shehane need your help plz , post request failed when load body from fixture json file while sent fine when paste body to the request

it('Validate the header', function () {
  cy.server();
  cy.route( 'fixture/fc_return-1adult-1child.json',`fx:data`)
    .then(data => cy.request(`POST`,`http://email-dev-external-endpoint.com/api/send-as-email`,`fx:data`)) // fx:data
})

[jennifer-shehane]

Hey @Elshaikh, passing 'fx:data' to cy.request() is not currently supported.

This issue is open as a request for Cypress to support this in the future and has not had any work done on it yet.

[gabbersepp]

I like the idea to pass a fixture directly to the request.
But how could the method signatures look like?

Current:

cy.request(url)
cy.request(url, body)
cy.request(method, url)
cy.request(method, url, body)
cy.request(options)

Possible:

cy.request(url) // does it make sense to provide a fixture to a GET request?
cy.request(url, body) // here we do not need a fixture
cy.request(url, fixture) // if a fixture is provided, ise "POST" as default method?
cy.request(method, url, fixture) // throw if method === GET && fixture is given?
cy.request(method, url, body)
cy.request(options)

[samlucax]

Any updates?

[mylearning1005]

any updates please