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)

[ladvish]

I am interested in working on this feature.

[ladvish]

I tried to add this feature..but i think its not possible. (Please correct me if i am thinking wrong)

Here is the PR - #20800

The error i get is:

Cypress detected that you returned a promise from a command while also invoking one or more cy commands in that promise.

The command that returned the promise was:

cy.request()

The cy command you invoked inside the promise was:
cy.fixture()

[AtulKrSharma]

@bahmutov/ @jennifer-shehane - Any updates on this please? Is that even in plan?

[Crustum7]

Hello! Can I work on this issue? It seems to be abandoned at the moment. I'm just starting out contributing and I thought it would be a good place to start

[Crustum7]

I'm running into the problem where calling cy.fixture() is not allowed and the test structure does not allow calling Cypress.backend('get:fixture', fixtureName, _.pick(options, 'encoding')) either because the request.cy.js test assumes the first call to .backend is a request and not a fixture. Is there a way to circumvent this in request.cy.js, should I create my own testing setup or is there another way to retrieve the contents of the fixture?

[thevladisss]

@jennifer-shehane Is this issue still active?