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cy.type() can only accept a string or number. You passed in: 'undefined'

See original GitHub issue

Current behavior:

When I try to get data form a Json file, this message shown. The question: Can I get text from a Json file?

Desired behavior:

I Need to insert this data (that the Json file have) in the text area

Steps to reproduce: (app code and test code)

Test

beforeEach(() => {
        cy.server()
        cy.fixture("licencia.json").then((data) => {
            cy.route('GET', 'licencia.json', data)
        })
it.only('POST - Add License', function () {
        cy.get('[id=operations-License-Post]').children('div').click()
          .get('button').contains('Try it out').click()
        cy.get('textarea').clear()
          .get('textarea').type(this.data)

** Json Example/format**

  {
      "nombres": "Pulga",
      "apellido": "Rodriguez",
      "tipoDocumento": "NOT_DEFINED",
      "fechaNacimiento": "1986-08-10T17:40:08.484Z",
      "nroLicencia": "32001001",
      "cuil": "20320010013",
      "domicilio": "25 de mayo 1350",
      "nacionalidad": "Argentino",
      "sexo": "Masculino",
      "grupoFactor": "0+",
      "nroTramite": "251350",
      "numeroInsumo": "string 1",
      "fechaOtorgamiento": "2019-07-26T17:40:08.484Z",
      "fechaRenovacion": "2019-07-26T17:40:08.484Z",
      "fechaVencimiento": "2019-07-26T17:40:08.484Z",
      "categoria": "A",
      "clase": "1",
      "restricciones": "ninguna",
      "observaciones": "cinco",
      "centroEmisor": "Las Talitas",
      "donante": true,
      "firmante": "Leito",
      "estado": "Vigente"
    }```
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### Versions

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Chrome v75

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State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

bahmutovcommented, Jul 30, 2019

see https://github.com/cypress-io/cypress/issues/4287

1reaction

bahmutovcommented, Jul 30, 2019

so the JSON from the fixture is automatically parsed and converted into an object, right? You probably want to type it as text. This should do the trick

cy.get('textarea').type(JSON.stringify(this.data))

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