cy.intercept url change not detected during file watching in Cypress open

Current behavior

This issue occurred migrating the Cypress RWA from cy.route to cy.intercept.

A cy.route with a minimatch is converted to use cy.intercept:

Note: Two aliases are defined against the same path (/users)

beforeEach(function () {
    cy.intercept("GET", "/users").as("allUsers");
    cy.intercept("GET", "/users/search*").as("usersSearch");
})

When run in open mode the test fails:

Migrating from cy.route to cy.intercept requires a glob-match (**) to be added to the beginning of the route.

The glob-match is added without stopping the current run and the file is saved:

beforeEach(function () {
    cy.intercept("GET", "/users").as("allUsers");
    cy.intercept("GET", "**/users/search*").as("usersSearch");
})

The browser refreshes and fails against a different alias:

Solution Stop the current run and start a fresh run, where the glob-match is honored and the tests pass as expected

A detailed demo of the issue and the solution is in this Loom:

https://www.loom.com/share/33778ef182bd489c80efa2d941e4e9f1

Desired behavior

When a glob-match is added to a cy.intercept the test runner should reflect that code change during the current run.

Test code to reproduce

See the Loom video and this diff in the RWA against the new-transactions.spec.ts where it can be reproduced: https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress-realworld-app/commit/504652c4561db611d6c54a8a40cdd3fea4db6bb1

Versions

6.0.0

[joszo]

Was just looking into this myself and it appears that cy.intercept does still support mini-match, but you have to pass an object with a pathname attribute including your glob string.

For example:

cy.intercept("GET", "/users/search*").as("usersSearch")

becomes

cy.intercept({
     method: "GET",
     pathname: "/users/search*",
}).as("usersSearch")

It doesn’t work

describe("intercept", () => {
    it("swapi", () => {
        cy.visit('https://swapi.dev/');
        // cy.intercept('GET', '\/api/\people').as('people');

        cy.intercept({
            method: 'get', 
            pathname: '/api/people*'
        }).as('people')
        cy.get('.input-group button').click();
        cy.wait('@people').then(interception => {
            console.log(interception.response.body);
        });
    });
});

[jonstone904]

Was just looking into this myself and it appears that cy.intercept does still support mini-match, but you have to pass an object with a pathname attribute including your glob string.

For example:

cy.intercept("GET", "/users/search*").as("usersSearch")

becomes

cy.intercept({
     method: "GET",
     pathname: "/users/search*",
}).as("usersSearch")