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Protractor E2E test times out when app polls an API at regular intervals

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Our app has a poller which makes calls to an API every 3 seconds. When I load a page with has an active instance of the poller Protractor will always time out.

The poller is started when the page loads and uses the Angular $timeout function.

Is there a way to get Protractor to ignore the poller or send a signal to the app to pause the poller momentarily so the E2E test can finish running?

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Created 10 years ago
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nvsoarescommented, May 30, 2016

Given that Angular 2, as of yet, at least to my knowledge, does not provide an interval service for polling. Would you propose people using protractor to test angular 2 apps workaround this issue? In cases where dropping synchronization is not possible. In our use case we have a timeout of 20 minutes, set up as a sort of ticker, to revalidate a JWT token. When our protractor tests hit the homepage, they sit there waiting for a 20min timeout.

Cheers, Nuno

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elgalucommented, Mar 26, 2014

I use 7mins spec timeouts, also have long running e2e tests:

    allScriptsTimeout: 7*60*1000,

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