Cypress plugin for CakePHP

• Overview
• Installation
• Helpers
  • Clear Database
  • Import Database
  • Create An Entity
  • Run Arbitrary Cake Command
• Contributing

Overview

This add-on adds some helper files for working with Cypress and CakePHP.

• This plugin injects a CSRF token into POST requests made to cypress-cake endpoints.
• This plugin bypasses Authentication on cypress-cake endpoints.

Important

This plugin exposes an API to work with the database. It is recommend for local development only. Do not use in production!

Installation

1. Install plugin

   ddev composer require tyler36/cypress-cake
   ddev cake plugin load Tyler36/CypressCake

2. Install Cypress if not available. Eg.

   • via NPM: npm require cypress
   • via tyler36/ddev-cypress: ddev addon get tyler36/ddev-cypress

3. Update cypress/support/commands.js to import the helpers

   import '../../vendor/tyler36/cypress-cake/src/support/cypress-commands'

Helpers

API	Description
/cypress/clear-database	Clear all data from database.
/cypress/import-database	Import a database file.
/cypress/csrf-token	Get a CSRF token. This is required POST forms.
/cypress/create	Run a factory to generate a entity.
/cypress/cake	Run arbitrary cake commands.

Clear Database

Use the Cypress command cy.clearDatabase() to clear all data from database.

cy.clearDatabase()

Import Database

Use cy.importDatabase() to import a SQL file. By default, this it will import a file located at env('SQL_TESTING_BASE_DUMP'), relative to the root. However, you can provide a path as the first parameter.

// Import `env('SQL_TESTING_BASE_DUMP')` database file.
cy.importDatabase()

// Import '/tmp/test.sql'.
cy.importDatabase('/tmp/test.sql')

Create An Entity

Use cy.create('User') to generate an entity from a configured factory. This packages expects to find vierge-noire/cakephp-fixture-factories factories. Please see their documentation for creating factories.

cy.create('User')

It is possible to pass additional attributes to the factory allowing to to set default data.

For example, the following creates a User entity with the email set to foobar@example.com.

cy.create('User', { email: 'example@example.com' })

Run Arbitrary Cake Command

Post a request to /cypress/cake to run CakePHP commands.

# To get CakePHP version
cy.cake('version')

# To clear all caches
cy.cake('cache clear_all')

Contributing

PRs, especially with tests, will be considered.

Contributed and maintained by tyler36