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SeeTraffic & Grabbing network traffic not working

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
testing

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with the provided WebDriver configuration and the seeTraffic and grabRecordedNetworkTraffics calls. Inspect startRecordingTraffic and RequestPostDataObject in helper/network/utils.js, including the reported use at line 101. Done means recorded traffic contains populated response fields and seeTraffic correctly evaluates requestPostData instead of passing unconditionally.

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Description

What are you trying to achieve?

I am trying to use seeTraffic and grabRecordedNetworkTraffics functions. grab* function is returning array with empty values or each field. seeTraffic is always passing because it is not able to assert on 'requestPostData'

What do you get instead?

for grabRecordedNetworkTraffics I am getting empty values like below:

for seeTraffic, it is always passing.

As per my analysis,

  1. For grabRecordedNetworkTraffics, startRecordingTraffic() always returning data with _response = null. Which is causing grabRecordedNetworkTraffics to return empty values.

  2. For seeTraffic API call, I found that variable 'RequestPostDataObject' inside helper/network/utils.js is stringified but it is being used as object at line number 101 in the file.

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I grab recorded network traffics 
Network traffic [
  { url: '', response: { status: '', statusText: '', body: '' } },
  { url: '', response: { status: '', statusText: '', body: '' } }
]
    I stop recording traffic 
  ✔ OK in 15331ms
I.amOnPage(`http://localhost:3000`);
  
    I.startRecordingTraffic();
    I.click('[data-testid="capture-button"]');
    I.wait(3);
    I.seeTraffic({
        name: 'random', // not sure what to put here
        url: 'http://localhost:3000/mock-data',
        // parameters: { key: 'value' },
        requestPostData: {
            operations: [
                {
                   //some data
                },
            ],
       }     
    });
    const networkTraffic2 = await I.grabRecordedNetworkTraffics();
    console.log('Network traffic', networkTraffic2);
Details

I am trying to assert some network API payload so that I can ensure, on submitting a form it is sending the correct data.

  • CodeceptJS version: 3.6.3-beta.2
  • NodeJS Version: 20.16.0 /16.14.2
  • Operating System: Mac
  • puppeteer || webdriverio || testcafe version (if related) webdriverio
  • Configuration file:
 helpers: {
        WebDriver: {
            url: getBaseUrl(),
            browser: 'chrome',
            windowSize: '1366x768',
            desiredCapabilities: {
                chromeOptions: {
                    args: [
                        ...webDriverAdditionalArgs,
                        '--no-sandbox',
                        '--unexpectedAlertBehavior=accept',
                        '--unhandledPromptBehavior=accept',
                    ],
                },
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