Protractor console log

Question

I want to output the text of a div in my protractor test, so far I have:

console.log(ptor.findElement(protractor.By.id(\'view-container\')).getText());
         


        

Answer 1

I would like to suggest a small improvement to other answers.

short answer : I like to use browser.sleep(0).then(..); where I need to push something to protractor's flow.

it is generic and easy to move around.

tl;dr

so using the above, you can easily add a function on browser (or ptor) something like:

browser.log = function( logger, level, msg ){
     browser.sleep(0).then(function(){ logger[level](msg); });
}

or something a bit more sophisticated with apply - but that depends on your logger.

you can obviously enhance that a bit to have logger like api

var logger = browser.getLogger('name');

should be implemented like (lets assume log4js)

browser.getLogger = function( name ){
        var logger = require('log4js').getLogger(name);

        function logMe( level ) {
                 return function(msg ){
                      browser.sleep(0).then(function(){ logger[level](msg); });
                 }

        }

        return { info : logMe('info'), ... }
}

basically, the sky is the limit.

I am sure there's a way to make my code a lot shorter, the point is using the sleep method as basis.