unknown error: window[requireName] is not a function

[electron-userland]

unknown error: window[requireName] is not a function

[kevinsawicki]

Also, does your app have nodeIntegration enabled in both windows?

[kevinsawicki]

BTW windowHandles is missing in the readme.

The app.client API is currently documented at http://webdriver.io/api.html

[kevinsawicki]

console.log(await app.client.browserWindow.getTitle());

This should be this instead:

console.log(await app.browserWindow.getTitle());

[kevinsawicki]

unknown error: window[requireName] is not a function

Do you have more of the stack trace that raised this error?

[kevinsawicki]

Also, does app.client.getTitle() work for you?

[wojtkowiak]

Thank you very much for your time.
unknown error: window[requireName] is not a function unfortunately this did not appeared with a stack trace (I am using ava).

Thanks to your hints I made it work. The problem was nodeIntegration being disabled indeed. So it seems that this error was actually triggered by windowByIndex.

I changed app.client.browserWindow.getTitle() to app.browserWindow.getTitle() and it works. app.client.getTitle() works also.

So after all maybe adding a note in readme about nodeIntegration would be helpful.

I have one more question if I may - can I talk to the main process ipc directly from tests? I am trying to trigger some things directly from the tests instead of the renderer process.
I have tried const ipc = app.electron.ipcRenderer; but ipc.send does not seem to send to the main process. Is there any way to do that or do I just have to setup another ipc connection myself?

[kevinsawicki]

So after all maybe adding a note in readme about nodeIntegration would be helpful.

Good point, I added https://github.com/electron/spectron#node-integration today which hopefully makes thing clearer.

can I talk to the main process ipc directly from tests?

It should work, I just uploaded a simple spec to test it and it appears to pass currently, 6d36884

[wojtkowiak]

Hmm app.electron.ipcRenderer.send('ipc-event', 'test') does not work for me. Not sure what is the reason.

[wojtkowiak]

Oh wait, got it. Seems that when you use ipcRenderer also in html that is loaded in your app it takes precedence and using it directly in tests fails then. So it seems that it will only work if you somehow disable ipc in the renderer for test purposes.

[kevinsawicki]

Seems that when you use ipcRenderer also in html that is loaded in your app it takes precedence and using it directly in tests fails then. So it seems that it will only work if you somehow disable ipc in the renderer for test purposes.

Hmm, that is surprising, could you include the code to help me reproduce this locally?

[wojtkowiak]

Good that you have asked.
I've forked spectron and changed the fixtures/app just to find out that it works. Now I've reverted my changes from yesterday and it also works 😄
So it seems that I had some other problem somewhere which I probably fixed with other changes. It started working when I removed var ipc = require('electron').ipcRenderer; from my index.html but it seems that this was only coincidence.
Tried to nail it but my IDE did not keep so detailed track of local changes.
So anyway, thank you for your time once again!

[Stoyko83]

[quote]Also, does your app have nodeIntegration enabled in both windows?[/quote]

How can I check about that? Where is this setting defined?