Error: Duplicate request initiated.

[vladparl]

Hello guys,

I am using pactum-cucumber-boilerplate project and trying to create scenario like this:

Scenario: Store email value in variable
When make a GET request to /api/users/1
Then response is received
And response status is 200
And response should have a json like
"""
{
"data":
{
"id":1,
"email":"[email protected]",
"first_name":"George",
"last_name":"Bluth",
"avatar":"https://reqres.in/img/faces/1-image.jpg"
},
"support":
{
"url":"https://reqres.in/#support-heading",
"text":"To keep ReqRes free, contributions towards server costs are appreciated!"
}
}
"""
And store response data.email in email
When make a POST request with body to /api/login
"""
{
"email": "email",
"password": "cityslicka"
}
"""
Then response is received
And response status is 201

I am getting: Error: Duplicate request initiated. Existing request - GET https://reqres.in/api/users/1

I have 2 questions:

1. How to send 2 or more requests in one scenario?
2. How to get stored value from variable data.email and use in second scenario as email parameter?

[ASaiAnudeep]

How to send 2 or more requests in one scenario?

To send more requests in a single scenario, just re-initiate the spec object in the appropriate step definition.

When(/^I make a (.*) request with body to (.*)$/, function (method, endpoint, body) {
  spec = pactum.spec();
  spec.withMethod(method);
  spec.withPath(endpoint);
  spec.withBody(body);
});

More details here

How to get stored value from variable data.email and use in second scenario as email parameter?

Use data stores.

Scenario: Get A User
    Given I make a GET request to /api/users/1
     When I receive a response
     Then I expect response should have a status 200
      And I store response at data.email as UserEmail

Scenario: List Users
    Given I make a GET request to /api/users
      And I set query param email to $S{UserEmail}
     When I receive a response
     Then I expect response should have a status 200

From the above example the email id from the server is saved in pactum's data-store. You can refer them in the next scenario as $S{UserEmail}

[vladparl]

Thank you so much ASaiAnudeep. Your answer was very helpful and is really appreciated :)

[vladparl]

Currently I have a function:

When(/^make a (.) request to (.)$/, function (method, endpoint) {
spec = new spec();
spec [method.toLowerCase()] (endpoint);
spec.withMethod(method);
spec.withPath(endpoint);
});

But get error message:

× When make a GET request to /api/breeds/image/random # features\support\steps.js:39
TypeError: spec is not a constructor
at World. (C:\Users\vlade\Desktop\Projects\BDD_Rest_Api_Testing\features\support\steps.js:40:10)

What I am doing wrong?

[leelaprasadv]

Do apactum.spec(); instead of new spec()

Also declare the spec object variable on top of your steps.js

and in the Whencreate a spec
spec = pactum.spec();

More reference: https://pactumjs.github.io/#/api-testing?id=testing-style
Section tab: Breaking (cucumber)

[ASaiAnudeep]

My bad. Updated the original answer.
Thanks @leelaprasadv for the prompt response.