Protractor: get url of not angular page

Question

Case I try to test: On Angular app page press button, that redirects you to some other site (not an Angular app).

it('should go to 3d party  service when i click "auth" button' , function() {

    browser.driver.sleep(3000);
    element(by.id('files-services-icon')).click();
    element(by.id('box-vendor-menu-item')).click();
    browser.driver.sleep(2000);

    expect( browser.driver.getLocationAbsUrl()).toContain('https://app.box.com/api/oauth2/authorize');
});

but I get:

UnknownError: unknown error: angular is not defined

How that can be achived? Thanks!

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered May 04 '15 at 07:58

You need to do 2 things

Set browser.ignoreSynchronization = true; before trying to read the URL of the 3rd party page, so the browser doesn't wait for (and so require) Angular promises to resolve in the page (and set it to false afterwards);
Use browser.getCurrentUrl() as opposed to browser.getLocationAbsUrl(), as the former just uses the plain webdriver method of reading the URL, rather than accesing it via Angular.

The following should work:

it('should go to 3d party  service when i click "auth" button' , function() {    
  element(by.id('files-services-icon')).click();
  element(by.id('box-vendor-menu-item')).click();
  browser.ignoreSynchronization = true;
  expect(browser.getCurrentUrl()).toContain('https://app.box.com/api/oauth2/authorize');
  browser.ignoreSynchronization = false;
});

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:24

You need to tweak ignoreSynchronization flag - set it to true before clicking on the link and set back to false in afterEach():

afterEach(function () {
    browser.ignoreSynchronization = false;
});

it('should go to 3d party  service when i click "auth" button' , function() {    
    element(by.id('files-services-icon')).click();

    browser.ignoreSynchronization = true;
    element(by.id('box-vendor-menu-item')).click();

    expect(browser.getLocationAbsUrl()).toContain('https://app.box.com/api/oauth2/authorize');
});

Protractor: get url of not angular page

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