'no method expect' when using Protractor a

问题:

Using Protractor as a library

Unable to require a reference to Jasmine. Referencing the expect method returns output Cannot call method 'expect' of null.

Code updated to reflect comments:

var protractor = require('protractor');
require('protractor/node_modules/minijasminenode');
require('protractor/jasminewd'); // output: jasmine is undefined (this error can only be seen if the above line is commented out)
//expect(true).toBe(true); // output: Cannot call method 'expect' of null

var driver = new protractor.Builder()
    .usingServer('http://localhost:4444/wd/hub')
    .withCapabilities(protractor.Capabilities
    .chrome()).build();

var ptor = protractor.wrapDriver(driver);

ptor.get('http://www.angularjs.org').then(function(){
    ptor.element(protractor.By.model('yourName')).sendKeys('test')
        .then(console.log('success')); // output: success
        ptor.getCurrentUrl().then(function(url){
            console.log(url); // output: http://www.angularjs.org
            expect(url).toContain('angular'); // output: Cannot call method 'expect' of null
        });
});

See https://github.com/angular/protractor/issues/21 for related information.

回答1:

The global jasmine expect function is newly generated every time you step into jasmine's it function context.

What does that mean to your code ? You cannot call expect outside of the it function.

example:

...
  // somewhere in your code
...
  // function expect doesn’t exist here
describe( 'your case', function() {
    // expect doesn’t exist here either
  it( 'should work', function() {
    // horray - the global expect is available !!
    // note : the expect function is generated before running your callback 
    // function to collect the expect'ed results for exactly this 'it' case
      expect( true).toBe( true); 
  });
})

回答2:

Quoting this post of Julie:

To make Jasmine automatically understand async testing, you'll need to require the jasmine-wd adapter with:

require('protractor/jasminewd');

_{(Just add the above line right after ... = require('protractor');.)}