Use the models that were just created

[laracasts]

Use the models that were just created

[troccoli]

I'm sorry about commenting on a closed issue, but I too would like to be able to use the model just created.

In my case I have a post and I want to check that the correct data is shown: title, author, date, content, etc.

Your suggestion would mean I had to specify each field I want to check

cy.create({model: 'App\\Models\\Post', attributes: {title: 'My post', content: ' My content', author: ' Giulio'}}

Apart from being very verbose, we don't use factories to their full potential. If we could get the object created it would be much clearer

const post = cy.create({model: 'App\\Models\\Post'});

cy.visit('/post/' + post.id).get('#title').should('contain', post.title);

This doesn't work, but it would be very helpful if it would.

[jeroenvanrensen]

Hello, do you mean I should do this?

it('can see its projects', () => {
    cy.login({ id: 1 })
    cy.create('App\\Models\\Project', { user_id: 1, name: 'My Project' })
    cy.visit('/home').contains('My Project')
})

[JeffreyWay]

No, you shouldn't need to do that in Cypress. Cypress runs commands serially. So something like this will work:

  it('shows a post', () => {
    cy.create('App\\Post', { title: 'My First Post' });

    cy.visit('/posts').contains('My First Post');
  });

If that's not working on your end, I'm not sure what to say. If you can break it down to a very simple and reproducible example, we can try to help.

[JeffreyWay]

Yes, that should work.

[jeroenvanrensen]

Okay thanks!

[ShetlandJ]

Agree with @troccoli, this would be a crazy useful feature.

[ShetlandJ]

Hey @jeroenvanrensen and @troccoli, it seems like this works:

cy.create(MyModel).then(myModel => console.log(myModel.some_property)