Reload existing active session

What would you like?

After using function cy.session([value, value]), Cypress will fail to load an existing active session.

For my current setup I am running this in an after() block, but the same will happen even if added inside a test.

If I print cy.state(‘activeSessions’) the required session will be printed and is hydrated: true.

This will work if there is only 1 test being ran, but if there are multiple tests, it will error out with the below message.

No session is defined with the name
  ["value","value"]
In order to use cy.session(), provide a setup as the second argument:

cy.session(id, setup)

Why is this needed?

I need to access an existing session without being required to reproduce the entire login session again (session id, setup and validation), in order to avoid the possibility of creating a new session for the same details.

[emilyrohrbough]

I will say, if you are trying to determine if an ID has already been used to save a session, you can leverage Cypress.session.getActiveSession('ID'), but I still suggest moving this logic into your login logic.

[emilyrohrbough]

@alexniculae Session is closely tied to the concept of Test Isolation. There will be two modes of test isolation, on and off, with on being the new default mode. When test isolation is on, before each test, Cypress will:

• clear the page by visiting about:blank
• clear cookies
• clear local storage
• clear browser storage

When the browser context is cleared, it should behave as a “logout” on the client side. We do perform this before each test to enable easier debugging if an error goes wrong.

Is your setup & validate logic saving the session data before it’s ready to be saved and that is why you are trying to collect the remaining session data at the end of the test?