How can we pass the Username, Password from the ubuntu CLI in cypress-cucumber-preprocessor?

Question

How can we pass the Username, Password from the CLI, ie Ubuntu terminal in cypress-cucumber-preprocessor. I have tried running my test using the following npx cypress-tags run command but it is not working. Could someone suggest what could be the problem here? I would like to login with the user/ password passing from CLI

Cypress version: 8.7.0

CYPRESS_baseUrl=https://one.bookpro.com/main/ npx cypress-tags run -e 'PRO_USERNAME=CypTest2,PRO_PASSWORD=CypTest123' -e TAGS='@login' GLOB='tests/cypress/integration/**/*.feature' --headless --browser chrome

My .env file has the following

CYPRESS_PRO_USERNAME=CypTest1
CYPRESS_PRO_PASSWORD=CypTest123

Answer 1

If you add the package cypress-dotenv

npm install --save-dev dotenv cypress-dotenv 

and set up cypress/plugins/index like this

const tagify = require('cypress-tags');
const dotenvPlugin = require('cypress-dotenv');

module.exports = (on, config) => {
  on('file:preprocessor', tagify(config));

  config = dotenvPlugin(config)
  return config
};

you can automatically get items added in the .env file (check under Setting menu in the Cypress runner).

Same should work with cypress run I think.

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Note If you want to have .env settings as default, but override on the command line sometimes, the above will not do it.

You need to merge the config as follows

module.exports = (on, config) => {
  on('file:preprocessor', tagify(config));

  const fromDotEnv = dotenvPlugin(config)
  config = {
    ...fromDotEnv, // from the .env file
    ...config      // CLI -e PRO_USERNAME=CypTest2,PRO_PASSWORD=CypTest123
  }
  return config
};

Also, I had to remove the ' around the PRO_USERNAME=CypTest2,PRO_PASSWORD=CypTest123 but that may be an OS issue.