How to use dynamic urls in acceptance tests from command line with Codeception

Question

I have two php envs and I am currently able to run something like this for different urls

modules:
    enabled:
        - WebDriver
        - AcceptanceHelper
    config:
        WebDriver:
            url: 'http://localhost/'
            browser: 'phantomjs'
env:
    alpha:
         modules:
            config:
                WebDriver:
                    url: 'http://myalphasite/'
    beta:
         modules:
            config:
                WebDriver:
                    url: 'http://mybetasite/'

Currently I run them using commands codecept run --env alpha , or codecept run --env beta

Is there a way to provide the url from commandline while running the codeception tests , something like codecept run site=alpha.test.com and then grabbing it from inside the config instead of hardcoding urls ?

Answer 1

i had the same Problem and did extend Codeception to support a dynamic Server-Url.

I can call my Codeceptions-Test by php in addition by the following code:

chdir('myPathTo: tests/codeception');
$codeception = new \Wrapper\Codecept([
    'steps' => true,
    'verbosity' => 1,
    // some other options (see Codeception docs/sources)
]);
$codeception->setBaseUrl('myServerUrl');
$codeception->run('myTestSuiteName');

Here is the extension i did in Codeception:

<?php

namespace Wrapper;

use Codeception\Codecept as CodeceptOriginal;

class Codecept extends CodeceptOriginal {

    private $baseUrl = null;

    public function runSuite($settings, $suite, $test = null) {
        if ($settings['modules']['enabled']) {
            foreach ($settings['modules']['enabled'] as $key => $module) {
                if (is_array($module) && $module['PhpBrowser']['url']) {
                    $module['PhpBrowser']['url'] = $this->getBaseUrl();
                    $settings['modules']['enabled'][$key] = $module;
                }
            }
        }
        return parent::runSuite($settings, $suite, $test = null);
    }

    public function getBaseUrl() {
        return $this->baseUrl;
    }

    public function setBaseUrl($baseUrl) {
        $this->baseUrl = $baseUrl;
        return $this;
    }

}

In your case you need some additional programming to get all cli option into codecpetion (//see some other options).

OR

You can extend the Codecption cli interface to instantiate the Wrapper/Codecept and not the original Codecept.

Hope this helps a bit and gives you an idea how to fix your issue.