cy.url() and/or cy.location('href') does not return a string as documentation claims

Current behavior:

According to the documentation, Cy.url() should produce a string. I wanted to capture the current URL into a variable and then reference it after I run a custom Cypress command.

My question is, if cy.url() and cy.location(‘href’) no longer return strings in 3.0.1 - how do we get that value?

Desired behavior:

Expecting a string of the current URL; instead an object is received that looks like:

// JSON.stringify(cy.url())
{ "chainerId": "chainer2504", "firstCall": false }

// JSON.stringify(cy.location('href'))
{ "chainerId": "chainer2558", "firstCall": false }

Steps to reproduce:

Attempting to log either cy.url() or cy.location('href') does not result in a string as indicated by the documentation.

Versions

Cypress 3.0.1

[dugajean]

@brian-mann Then you should update your documentation and stop claiming that url() returns a string?

[kristinamongo]

// if you need the current url in order to store it and use it later, you may do that:

let currentURL
  cy.url().then(url => {
    currentURL = url
  });

// and then use it later like that

cy.then(() => cy.visit(currentURL))