How to make a variable in `protractor.conf.js` available in spec file?

Question

I have a variable in protractor.conf.js which is exported within onPrepare() function as: global.myVariable = myVariable, and in spec file I'am trying to use/call it, but it seems that it can't be accessible and isn't available for the spec file.

Error:

E/launcher - Error: Error: Cannot find module 'myVariable'

It's being treated as it would be an npm module and can't be found in npm_modules which is correct.

myVariable is actually an object build by a constructor function within protractor.conf.js

How can make it accessible from the spec file?

Answer 1

Issue fixed... solution is:

params: {
    myVariable: function () {
        ...
        ...
    },
    otherProperty: 'Value'
}

and this how you can reach in spec files:

browser.params.myVariable or browser.params.otherProperty

with this we can make a variable accessible from protractor.conf.js to spec test files. The following posting was helpful and also the protractor doc where it's explaining the property: params?: any;

Answer 2

I just put a config in my protractor.conf.js with a variable named getPageTimeout and then in my spec.ts I can reference it with browser.getPageTimeout

Wierd though that I had to set the timeout in the Cucumber framework rather than the Jasmine/Protractor framework. I don't quite understand why.