Filesystem helper handleDownloads and amInPath can't be used when file path is outside codecept_dir

[nicostubi]

What are you trying to achieve?

Use Filesystem helper with:

• CodeceptJS output directory set at the root of my local disk (e.g. "c:\tests\output")
• setting I.amInPath(process.env.TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY) => TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = CodeceptJS output directory

What do you get instead?

file (printable1.png) still not present in directory C:\Projects\foo\bar\Frontend\tests\output after 15 sec

In other words: my project directory.

  const fileName = `printable${i}.png`
  await I.handleDownloads(fileName)
  I.click(buttonsLocator.at(i))
  I.amInPath(process.env.TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY)
  await I.waitForFile(fileName, 15)

Details

• CodeceptJS version: 3.3.5
• NodeJS Version: v16.17.0
• Operating System: Windows 11 Pro
• playwright
• Configuration file:

require('ts-node/register')
const { setHeadlessWhen } = require('@codeceptjs/configure')

// turn on headless mode when running with HEADLESS=true environment variable
// HEADLESS=true npx codecept run
setHeadlessWhen(process.env.TEST_HEADLESS === 'true')

exports.config = {
	tests: './tests/*/**_test.ts',
	output: process.env.TEST_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY,
	timeout: 240, // limit all tests in all suites to 240 secs
	helpers: {
		Playwright: {
			browser: 'chromium',
			show: false,
			url: process.env.TEST_FRONTEND_URL, 
			video: process.env.TEST_VIDEO === 'true',
			trace: true,
			// keepTraceForPassedTests: true,
			waitForAction: 2000,
			waitForTimeout: 30000,
			windowSize: '1800x920',
		},
		GraphQL: {
			endpoint: process.env.GRAPHQL_API_SECURE_URL, 
			timeout: 30000,
		},
		JSONResponse: {
			requestHelper: 'GraphQL',
		},
		FileSystem: {},
	},
	mocha: { bail: true },
	bootstrapAll: require('./presettings.ts').bootstrapAll,
	bootstrap: require('./presettings.ts').bootstrap,
	teardownAll: require('./presettings').teardownAll,
	teardown: require('./presettings').teardown,
	plugins: {
		subtitles: {
			enabled: true,
		},
		pauseOnFail: {},
		retryFailedStep: {
			enabled: true,
		},
		tryTo: {
			enabled: true,
		},
		screenshotOnFail: {
			enabled: true,
		},
		// coverage: {
		// 	enabled: true,
		// },
	},
}

pre-analysis

This would be due to this code in the method handleDownloads:

const downloadPath = path.join(global.output_dir, fileName || path.basename(filePath));

While the method amInPath takes the global codecept dir:

this.dir = path.join(global.codecept_dir, openPath);