Writing to files (cy.writeFile) in Cypress - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to write the string 'Hello World' to a file named 'greeting.txt'.

Cypress

cy.[1]('greeting.txt', 'Hello World')

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Avisit

Bget

CwriteFile

DreadFile

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using cy.readFile instead of cy.writeFile

Forgetting to specify the file name

Using cy.visit which is for visiting URLs

The cy.writeFile command writes data to a file. Here, it writes 'Hello World' to 'greeting.txt'.

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medium

Complete the code to write an object { name: 'Alice' } to 'user.json' as JSON.

Cypress

cy.[1]('user.json', { name: 'Alice' })

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AwriteFile

Blog

Crequest

DreadFile

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using cy.readFile instead of cy.writeFile

Trying to write objects with cy.log

Using cy.request which is for HTTP calls

cy.writeFile can write objects as JSON to files. Here, it writes the object to 'user.json'.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to correctly write 'Test data' to 'data.txt'.

Cypress

cy.writeFile('data.txt', [1])

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AwriteFile

B'Test data'

CTest data

Dcy.writeFile

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Not quoting the string data

Passing the command name instead of data

Using cy.writeFile inside the argument

The data to write must be a string or object. It must be quoted as a string literal. Without quotes, it causes an error.

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hard

Fill both blanks to write an array ['apple', 'banana'] to 'fruits.json' as JSON.

Cypress

cy.[1]('fruits.json', [2])

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AwriteFile

BreadFile

C['apple', 'banana']

D{apple: 'banana'}

Attempts:

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💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using cy.readFile instead of cy.writeFile

Passing an object instead of an array

Passing the array as a string

cy.writeFile writes data to files. The data here is an array, so it must be passed as is (not as a string).

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hard

Fill all three blanks to write a JSON object with uppercase keys to 'config.json'.

Cypress

const config = { [1]: 'value1', [2]: 'value2' };
cy.[3]('config.json', config);

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A'API_KEY'

B'TIMEOUT'

CwriteFile

D'api_key'

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using lowercase keys instead of uppercase

Not quoting the keys

Using cy.readFile instead of cy.writeFile

The object keys are uppercase strings. The command to write the file is writeFile.