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How to access external website using Geb

I am automating my project using Geb and Groovy. For Example: I am logging into Gmail and I define different Pages as - Inbox, Sent Item, Trash, Drafts, etc. Now in my spec I wanted to access an external website like yahoomail. How can I define it the spec to access an external Webiste. I use "go" to navigate to yahoo mail as below in my spec

    then: "I go to Yahoo mail page"
    go "https://login.yahoo.com/"

    and: "Signing into Yahoo mail "
    at YahooLoginPage

In the YahooLoginPage.groovy it is not finding the Next button which I define as static at

static at = { $("#login-signin") }

Error message I get :

Condition not satisfied:

go "https://login.yahoo.com/"

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null

Is there any other way to do this?

Solution

  • The problem is that you are using a method which has a void return type in a then: Spock block. Every statement is asserted in then: blocks and that method call evaluates to null because of its return type and hence the failure you're getting.

    Basically you should not use Geb's go() method in a then: - use it in in a given: or when: block instead.