Task to create navigate to a URL

[serenity-js]

Task to create navigate to a URL

[jan-molak]

Hey @srinivasbudh!

Since it's Protractor managing the state of the browser, it's also responsible for starting it up.
What this means is that the task to Open simply navigates to a specific page once the browser is already up and running.

In your case you could simply write:

describe('Navigation', function() {
    const chris = Actor.named('Chris').whoCan(BrowseTheWeb.using(protractor.browser));

    it('allows the actor to use a deep link', () => chris.attemptsTo(
        Open.browserOn('https://google.com'),
        Open.browserOn('http://example.com'),
    ));
});

and this would navigate between the two pages.

Having said that, you could also have your own Navigate.to interaction, so that the report does't say that the actor "opens the browser", but "navigates to a url":

export class Navigate implements Interaction {

    static to = (url: string) => new Navigate(url);

    @step('{0} navigate to "#targetUrl"', ActivityType.Interaction)
    performAs(actor: UsesAbilities): PromiseLike<void> {
        return BrowseTheWeb.as(actor).get(this.targetUrl);
    }

    constructor(private targetUrl: string) { }
}

Does this help?
J

[srinivasbudh]

Hi,

Thanks a lot I was trying the first solution and I was facing error Webdriver has quit unexpectedly, I am able to use the second solution suggested above. Thanks for the solution.

[jan-molak]

The behaviour of both implementations is the same actually (they both call protractor.browser.get(url) under the hood), the only difference it how they're reported (the @step annotation).

Glad it helped :-)
J