How to expect url is redirect in TestCafe?

Question

I want to detect URL is redirected to the login page when clicking something that needs to log in first.

Is there any way to achieve that?

Photoactinic

Answer 1

Here is a solution for the testcafe v0.16.x. You can use ClientFunction to get page's url:

import { ClientFunction, t } from 'testcafe';

fixture `check url`
    .page `http://example.com`;

test('check url', async t => {
    const getLocation = ClientFunction(() => document.location.href);

    await t.expect(getLocation()).contains('example.com');
});

Confectionary

I tried this before, and it still return the original URL, not the redirect one – Photoactinic

do you mean the expect assertion is failed? Could you please provide a simple example with the page to reproduce the problem? – Confectionary

I just found out it works pretty well after upgrade the testcafe, sorry for bothering – Photoactinic