Count number of times intercepted route was called

What would you like?

Intercepted routes should keep track of the number of times they were called.

I’d like to gy.get the intercepted route and verify it was called N times.

I could put a custom property on the Req object and increment it in the RouteHandler but that is clunky, and not something the client should have to maintain. This seems to be the responsibility of the testing framework.

Why is this needed?

An essential part of testing is confirming your code is only making network requests the expected number of times. This should be baked in to the testing framework. If my code makes unnecessary requests, then my code is wrong, and I need to know about it.

SO post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67643208/verify-number-of-times-request-was-made

[pstephenwille]

While there are clumsy work arounds, the ability to count the number of times a network request was made is fundamental to a testing library. This should be baked in to Cypress.

[jennifer-shehane]

@pstephenwille You can do this with the cy.get('@alias.all') which is undocumented but I believe we’ll be documenting it soon.

cy.intercept('POST', 'my-url').as('postUrl')

// do stuff in your tests/app

// by this time this should have POSTed 4 times
cy.get('@postUrl.all').should('have.length', 4)