Check external redirection with Codeception

Question

I want to check something like this:

<?php

$I->amOnPage('/go/google');
$I->seeCurrentUrlEquals('http://google.com');

But I get error:

Failed asserting that two strings are equal.
--- Expected
+++ Actual
@@ @@
-'http://google.com'
+''

Scenario Steps:
2. I see current url equals "http://google.com"
1. I am on page "/go/google"

Idea is just to check if users was redirected to external resource.

Answer 1

Codeception's seeCurrentUrlEquals() and seeCurrentUrlMatches() methods are, unfortunately, misnamed as they do not allow assertions to be made against the entire URL but rather only against the URI parts.

I solved this by declaring the following method in my Helper class:

public function seeFullCurrentURLEquals($value)
{
    return ($this->getModule('PhpBrowser')->client->getHistory()->current()->getUri() == $value);
}

Then, in the scenario, you can simply do something like:

$I->seeFullCurrentUrlEquals('google.com');

Answer 2

I would improve @rickroyce´s comment by swapping out line 2

$I->wait(2);

with something like

$I->waitForElement('#gbqfq', 30);

which waits for the google search input field and is more robust then just assuming 2 seconds is enough that the page is loaded.

The full example would be then

<?php

$I->amOnPage('/go/google');
$I->waitForElement('#gbqfq', 30);
$I->seeCurrentUrlEquals('http://google.com');

(Normally it would put the addition as comment but since I do not have enough reputation it is an answer :))