Provide a way for custom commands to retry on failed should()

[alexkrolick]

Current behavior:

cy.get('#me').should('not.exist') // retries chain
cy.customGetById('me').should('not.exist') // does not retry

#1210 (comment)

Desired behavior:

cy.customGetById('me').should('not.exist') // retries custom get if "should" fails

Versions

Cypress 3.1.4

Related

• Cypress.Commands.add needs option to force retry on that command #2670
• getBy* with .should('not.exist') testing-library/cypress-testing-library#30
• getAllBy* commands chained by should don't retry correctly testing-library/cypress-testing-library#23

[kuceb]

@alexkrolick can you provide the code for customGetById? I'm not able reproduce this issue

[alexkrolick]

See testing-library/cypress-testing-library#30 - there are a number of custom commands

[kuceb]

@alexkrolick I see, you're asking for plugin authors to have access to the retry mechanism, custom commands using cy.get under the hood will still work fine

[alexkrolick]

Yes exactly

[lukeapage]

This workaround works:

cy.getByTestId = (id) => cy.get(`[data-test-id="${id}"]`);

[alexkrolick]

The custom queries we are trying to support aren't wrappers around jQuery attribute selectors; some of them use multiple DOM traversals to match labels to inputs, for example. cy.get isn't a workaround unfortunately. See linked issues.