How to share data between javascript files?

Question

I have (I think) kind of unique problem with js. I'm writing tests using protractor stuff and Jasmine and I need to share data between js files. Is there any way to do that? All the solutions I've found are for webpages and I use just js files.

I look forward to your swift response, if there is any information missing, please let me know and I'll add it immediately.

Answer 1

I have not tested this myself, but maybe you can try to put stuff in the global scope using:

global.mySharedData = {someKey: 'some value'}

// in one of your test files
it('should do something', function() {
  global.mySharedData = {someKey: 'some value'}
});

...

// This is in another test suite
it('should do something', function() {
  var valueFromFirstTest = global.mySharedData.someKey;
});

http://nodejs.org/api/globals.html

Let me know if it works.

Answer 2

If you need to share dynamic data between files you can also do the following. Here's a working example. What I needed to do was take parts of the URL and use them across different files.

it('should click on one of the clickable profiles', function(){

        //Get entity type and entity id before clicking the link
        tableEls.get(1).all( by.xpath('./td') ).get(0).element( by.xpath('./a') ).getAttribute('href').then(function(text){

            var hrefTokens  = text.split('/');
            var entityID    = hrefTokens[ hrefTokens.length - 1 ];
            var entityType  = hrefTokens[ hrefTokens.length - 2 ];

            browser.params.entityID   = entityID;
            browser.params.entityType = entityType;
        });

        tableEls.get(1).all( by.xpath('./td') ).get(0).element( by.xpath('./a') ).click();
        browser.sleep(2000);
    });

I simply assigned the values that I needed to use in other files to the browser.params. So in my other files I can access them like this

    it('Retrieving JSON Data ...', function(){

        var entityID   = browser.params.entityID;
        var entityType = browser.params.entityType;
   });