Protractor - UnexpectedAlertOpenError: unexpected alert open

[Yanna Kyprianou]

Hi all,

I am really struggling with this for a while.

I have an angular app which throws a confirmation window/alert whenever a reload or navigation change happens. (onbeforereload basically)

Problem is, all the existing end to end protractor tests are failing now as each one has a before each get index.html page and is not expecting an alert.

I have tried what many suggested to get the alert and accept with the following:

alertDialog = browser.switchTo().alert();

  alertDialog.accept();

But it doesn't work. I can't get to the window alert because is failing on the the get page.

Whenever I do a  'browser.get('index.html');'

an 'UnexpectedAlertOpenError: unexpected alert open' is thrown

Any help will be much appreciated

[Yanna]

I found the problem, it was not an alert but a window.

 browser.get('index.html');

        browser.getAllWindowHandles().then(function (handles) {

            browser.switchTo().window(handles[0]);

        });