Can the Geb baseUrl navigation be used with subdomains?

Question

I'm using Geb to write some browser automation tests. It allows you to configure a baseUrl and specify browser actions relative to this, as detailed in The Book of Geb. This works nicely for paths within the site but I can't see any syntax for dealing with subdomains.

Is there a simple way of going from baseUrl = http://myapp.com/ to http://sub.myapp.com using the Geb DSL or am I going to have to grab the property that defines the baseUrl in code and use it to generate the subdomain?

what exactly are you trying to achieve? run the same tests against different domains or switch domains within the same set of tests? — erdi, Feb 01 '13 at 09:43
I'm trying to switch to a subdomain of my baseUrl as part of a test. So I have a Page object where the url is defined relative to the baseUrl (eg. url = "signup/" which is equivalent to /signup) I want to define another page object that whose url is a subdomain of the baseUrl (eg. account.). I can populate that value in code but am just wondering if there is an easy way in the DSL (that I am missing) to specify it. The baseUrl property is useful for testing across a number of different environments. — Chris, Feb 11 '13 at 12:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '13 at 15:17

As stated by erdi there seems to be no way to currently do it. In the end we added an overridden version of getPageUrl() to our subclass of Page.

String getPageUrl() {
    def subdomainPresent = this.class.declaredFields.find {
        it.name == 'subdomain' && isStatic(it.modifiers)
    }
    if( subdomainPresent ) {
        def baseURL = getBrowser().getConfig().getBaseUrl()
        def splicePoint = baseURL.indexOf('//') + 1

        pageUrl = baseURL[0..splicePoint] + this.class.subdomain + "." + baseURL[splicePoint+1..-1] + pageUrl
    }
    pageUrl
}

Used like this for account.{baseUrl}/login

class MyPage extends MyPageBase{
    static subdomain = "account"
    static url = "login"
}

Documented here as a pull request https://github.com/geb/geb/pull/37/files

twinj · Answer 2 · 2014-03-13T04:05:43.557

In Geb the Browser class has this method:

    /**
 * Changes the base url used for resolving relative urls.
 * <p>
 * This method delegates to {@link geb.Configuration#setBaseUrl}.
 */
void setBaseUrl(String baseUrl) {
    config.baseUrl = baseUrl
}

Geb Javadoc

I successfully use it to switch server contexts of the same application.

E.g: browser.setBaseUrl('http://int/app/pages/') browser.setBaseUrl('http://ci/sameapp/pages/')

If you are running tests using Spock this needs to be done before each feature as it gets reset.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 13 '13 at 20:10

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As far as I know there is no way to modify baseUrl during test execution other than by directly setting it in the config:

browser.config.baseUrl = 'http://sub.myapp.com'

answered Feb 13 '13 at 20:10

erdi

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Thanks, yeah we came to the same conclusion and implemented the feature in code as expanded on in my answer. – Chris Jun 13 '13 at 15:21

Can the Geb baseUrl navigation be used with subdomains?

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