Stashing a value to use across multiple tests is not returning a value

[MeganOzanne]

Hi, I'm trying to build out some tests using Pactum and my final hurdle is passing my auth token across multiple files so that I don't need to call my auth endpoint for every test. Please could someone assist me to see what I'm doing wrong?

My setup is using:
Pactum
Cucmber
Typescript
Chai

My request to get my auth token is this:
` export async function getAccessToken() {

    const username = user
    const password = p

   await spec()
    .post('auth.url')
      .withBody({
          grant_type: Auth0.GrantType,
          realm: 'All-Passwordless-Users',
          username,
          password,
          audience: Auth0.Audience,
          scope: auth0Scope,
          client_id: auth0ClientId,
      })
     .expectStatus(200)
     .stores('accessToken', this.response.body.access_token)

//this.response = await s.toss()
//return this.response.body.access_token
//.returns((ctx) => { return ctx.res.body.access_token });

};`

I then attempt to use .withHeaders('Authorization', '$S{GetAuthToken}') within my further requests, within different files but it outputs $S{GetAuthToken} rather then the required value.

I have also tried using:
`const getToken = getAccessToken().then(
function(accessToken) {return accessToken;}
);

const token = await getToken`

But this returns TypeError: getAccessToken is not a function

Given Pactum provides a way to store and retrieve data I thought this task would be fairly simple. TIA

[leelaprasadv]

Hi @MeganOzanne,

Since you are using CucumberJS, you can add the code to retrieve access token in a BeforeAll / Before hook and use PactumJS setDefaultHeaders() once in the same hook to set the Authorization header as default for all subsequent requests.

You can still leverage stores and reference the store variable to set the headers.

request.setDefaultHeaders('Authorization', '$S{accessToken}');

Reference:
https://pactumjs.github.io/api/settings/setDefaultHeaders.html#setdefaultheaders

Here is an example cucmberJS implementation with PactumJS (doesn't have auth setup included and not in typescript though)
https://github.com/pactumjs/pactum-cucumber-boilerplate

[MeganOzanne]

Thanks Leela, the trouble I am now hitting is when I attempt to log out the token with console.log('using:', '$S{accessToken}') it returns: using: $S{accessToken} rather then the value.

How do I log out what is stored so I can see if this is the cause of the error I am now facing?

[leelaprasadv]

You can use parse to retrieve the data.

https://pactumjs.github.io/api/utils/parse.html#parse

[MeganOzanne]

Thank you