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Cypress Guide ​

If you haven't already, see Getting Started. The following examples will assume you have already received your API key and created a namespace.

Examples ​

Install Mailisk Plugin ​

Mailisk provides an official library with a custom set of commands for testing email in Cypress. These commands wrap the API endpoints.

Install cypress-mailisk ​

sh
npm install --save-dev cypress-mailisk

After installing the package add the following in your project's cypress/support/e2e.js:

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import "cypress-mailisk";

Setup API Key ​

To be able to use the API you will need to add your API key to cypress.config.js:

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module.exports = defineConfig({
  env: {
    MAILISK_API_KEY: "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
});

Usage ​

The cypress-mailisk plugin provides additional commands which can be accessed on the cypress object, for example cy.mailiskSearchInbox(). These commands extend the Chainable object which allows you to use the then() method to chain commands.

cy.mailiskSearchInbox ​

This is the main command to interact with Mailisk, it wraps the Search Inbox endpoint.

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cy.mailiskSearchInbox("yournamespace", { to_addr_prefix: "test.user@" }).then((response) => {
  const emails = response.data;
  // ...
});

This Cypress command does a few extra things out of the box compared to calling the raw API directly:

  • By default it uses the wait flag. This means the call won't return until at least one email is received. Disabling this flag via wait: false can cause it to return an empty response immediately.
  • The request timeout is adjustable by passing timeout in the request options. By default it uses a timeout of 5 minutes.
  • By default it returns emails in the last 15 minutes. This ensures that only new emails are returned. This can be overriden by passing the from_timestamp parameter (from_timestamp: 0 will disable filtering by email age).
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// timeout of 5 minute
cy.mailiskSearchInbox(namespace);
// timeout of 1 minute
cy.mailiskSearchInbox(namespace, {}, { timeout: 1000 * 60 });
// returns immediately, even if the result would be empty
cy.mailiskSearchInbox(namespace, { wait: false });

For the full list of filters and their description see the Search Inbox endpoint reference.

Filter by TO address ​

The to_addr_prefix option allows filtering by the email's TO address. Specifically the TO address has to start with this.

For example, if someone sends an email to my-user-1@yournamespace.mailisk.net, you can filter it by using my-user-1@:

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cy.mailiskSearchInbox(namespace, {
  to_addr_prefix: "my-user-1@",
});

Filter by FROM address ​

The from_addr_includes option allows filtering by the email's FROM address. Specifically the TO address has to include this. Note that this is different from the to address as it is includes not prefix.

For example, if someone sends an email from the example.com domain we could filter like so:

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cy.mailiskSearchInbox(namespace, {
  from_addr_includes: "@example.com",
});

If we know a specific email address we want to listen to we can do this:

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cy.mailiskSearchInbox(namespace, {
  from_addr_includes: "no-reply@example.com",
});

Filter by Subject ​

The subject_includes option allows filtering by the email's Subject. Specifically the Subject has to include this (case-insensitive).

If we're testing password reset that sends an email with the subject Password reset request. We could filter by something like this:

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cy.mailiskSearchInbox(namespace, {
  subject_includes: "password reset request",
});

Common test cases ​

Password reset page ​

This example demonstrates going to a password reset page, requesting a new password, receiving reset code link via email and finally setting the new password.

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describe("Test password reset", () => {
  let resetLink;
  const namespace = "yournamespace";
  const testEmailAddr = `test.test@${namespace}.mailisk.net`;

  it("Starts a password reset", () => {
    cy.visit("https://example.com/password_reset");
    cy.get("#email_field").type(testEmailAddr);
  });

  it("Gets a password reset email", () => {
    cy.mailiskSearchInbox(namespace, {
      to_addr_prefix: testEmailAddr,
      subject_includes: "password",
    }).then((response) => {
      expect(response.data).to.not.be.empty;
      const email = response.data[0];
      expect(email.subject).to.equal("Please reset your password");
      resetLink = email.text.match(/.(https:\/\/example.com\/password_reset\/.*)>\n*/)[1];
      expect(resetLink).to.not.be.undefined;
    });
  });

  it("Goes to password reset link", () => {
    cy.visit(resetLink);
    cy.title().should("contain", "Change your password");
    cy.get("#password").type("MyNewPassword");
    cy.get("#password_confirmation").type("MyNewPassword");
    cy.get("form").submit();
  });
});

Breaking changes ​

  • With version v2.0.0 the default from_timestamp has been changed from the past 5 seconds to the past 15 minutes. Since this can break existing tests a new major version has been released.