detecting test failures from within afterEach hooks in Mocha

Question

I'm trying to create an afterEach hook with logic that should only fire if the previous test failed. For example:

it("some_test1", function(){   // something that could fail })  it("some_test2", function(){   // something that could fail })  afterEach(function(){   if (some_test_failed) {     // do something to respond to the failing test   } else {     // do nothing and continue to next test   } }) 

However, I have no known way of detecting if a test failed from within the afterEach hook. Is there some sort of event listener I can attach to mocha? Maybe something like this:

myTests.on("error", function(){ /* ... */ }) 

Answer 1

You can use this.currentTest.state (not sure when this was introduced):

afterEach(function() {   if (this.currentTest.state === 'failed') {     // ...   } });