An error was thrown in your plugins file while executing the handler for the before:spec event

[DianaPlesa92]

Current behavior

When running tests with cypress + badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor integrated, and run command, I get this error:

An error was thrown in your plugins file while executing the handler for the before:spec event.
The error we received was:
Error: Unexpected state in beforeSpecHandler: received-envelopes (this might be a bug, please report at https://github.com/badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor)
at createError (C:\InvoiceAutomation\AutoTest\node_modules@badeball\cypress-cucumber-preprocessor\dist\helpers\error.js:9:12)
at beforeSpecHandler (C:\InvoiceAutomation\AutoTest\node_modules@badeball\cypress-cucumber-preprocessor\dist\plugin-event-handlers.js:190:43)
at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)

Command:
node_modules.bin\cypress run -spec 'cypress/e2e/duckduckgo.feature' --headless --env fileConfig=stage

I have tried cypress-on-fix and it does not help.
I am using before and beforeEach in my test cases in which I am visiting the url.

Visiting the url outside before/beforeEach hooks works fine with run command.
Using cypress open works fine.

Desired behavior

No errors when running tests configured with before and beforeEach hooks with cypress run.

Test code to reproduce

Repository link: https://github.com/DianaPlesa92/AutoTest/tree/main

Versions

• Cypress version:13.6.2
• Preprocessor version:20.0.0
• Node version:v18.13.0

Checklist

• I've read the FAQ.
• I've read instructions for logging issues.
• I'm not using cypress-cucumber-preprocessor@4.3.1 (package name has changed and it is no longer the most recent version, see #689).

[pbochnak]

Same error appears for after:run event

[badeball]

Same error appears for after:run event

This is likely not the same issue and won't be affected by the fix for the original issue. You should open up a separate issue and make sure to provide a reproducible example.

[badeball]

Hi @DianaPlesa92, thanks for putting together the example for me. I've fixed and released this with v20.0.1.

[DianaPlesa92]

Hello @badeball, it is fixed. Thank you!

[topesho]

Hi @badeball I am having the same issue with error Error: Expected there to be a timestamp for current step (this might be a bug, please report at https://github.com/badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor)

Because this error occurred during a after each hook we are skipping the remaining tests in the current suite:

I am using the following
package.json.

{
"name": "xx",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "xx",
"main": "index.js",
"scripts": {
"remove-cucumber-json-formatter": "rm -f tools/cucumber-json-formatter",
"download-cucumber-json-formatter": "curl -L https://github.com/cucumber/cucumber-json-formatter/releases/download/vX.Y.Z/cucumber-json-formatter-linux-amd64 -o tools/cucumber-json-formatter && chmod +x tools/cucumber-json-formatter",
"full_regression": "npm run download-cucumber-json-formatter && npx cypress run -e TAGS='@home' --headed && node cucumber-html-report.js; npm run remove-cucumber-json-formatter"
},
"author": "",
"license": "ISC",
"devDependencies": {
"@badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor": "^20.1.0",
"@bahmutov/cypress-esbuild-preprocessor": "^2.2.1",
"cypress": "^13.12.0",
"multiple-cucumber-html-reporter": "^3.6.2",
"ts-loader": "^9.5.1"
},
"cypress-cucumber-preprocessor": {
"stepDefinitions": "cypress/support/step_definitions/**/*.js",
"html": {
"enabled": true,
"output": "cypress/reports/cucumber-html/cucumber-report.html"
},
"json": {
"enabled": true,
"formatter": "cucumber-json-formatter",
"output": "cypress/reports/cucumber-json/cucumber-report.json"
}
}
}

CYPRESS.CONFIG.ts

import { defineConfig } from "cypress";
import createBundler from "@bahmutov/cypress-esbuild-preprocessor";
import { addCucumberPreprocessorPlugin } from "@badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor";
import { createEsbuildPlugin } from "@badeball/cypress-cucumber-preprocessor/esbuild";

export default defineConfig({
e2e: {
specPattern: "**/*.feature",
async setupNodeEvents(
on: Cypress.PluginEvents,
config: Cypress.PluginConfigOptions
): Promise<Cypress.PluginConfigOptions> {
// This is required for the preprocessor to be able to generate JSON reports after each run, and more,
await addCucumberPreprocessorPlugin(on, config);

  on(
    "file:preprocessor",
    createBundler({
      plugins: [createEsbuildPlugin(config)],
    })
  );

  // Make sure to return the config object as it might have been modified by the plugin.
  return config;
},

},
});