protractor testing with mocha and chai - promise not resolving

[Jens Hoffmann]

Hi,

I have a protractor test in which I would like to check the count of select boxes. 

I am using chai as promised: (see also link here: https://angular.github.io/protractor/#/frameworks)

The problem is that I don't want to resolve the promise manually like below (see (2) ).

I am using mocha, chai by the way. 

Could you please help me?  

// Page Object

var ProductDetailPO = function () {

    // ...

};

ProductDetailPO.prototype = Object.create({}, {

    selectBoxesNumber: {

        get: function () {

            return element.all(by.css('.dropdownSelect')).count();

        }

    }

});

module.exports = ProductDetailPO;

// productDetail.spec.js

var po = new ProductDetailPO();

    

var chai = require('chai');

var chaiAsPromised = require('chai-as-promised');

chai.use(chaiAsPromised);

var expect = chai.expect;

// Doesn't work like that (1)

it('only one select should be enabled "',

  function () {

      expect(po.selectBoxesCount).to.be.above(5);

  });

  

// The following would work: (2)

po.selectBoxesCount.then(function (number) {

    expect(number).to.equal(5);

});

greetings 

jens 

[Jens Hoffmann]

I think I found the solution myself. 

If a promise is used the eventually keyword has to be used: 

// this code is working

expect(po.selectBoxes.count()).to.eventually.equal(4);

see link here: http://chaijs.com/plugins/chai-as-promised