Including External Classes

[Aeden Jameson]

How does one include classes from external files that one has written themselves? For example if I have

/login_page.coffee

class LoginPage

  constructor: (@browser) ->

I want to include the LoginPage class from the login_page.coffee file in this test

/when_submitting_the_form_without_the_first_name.coffee

require './login_page.coffee' #Do I do this?

casper.start "http://somesite.com/", ->

  @test.comment("when submitting the form without the first name")

casper.thenClick '.login', ->

   login = new LoginPage(@)

   login.login('username', 'password')

when I use require and run the tests using casper test .... I get an error that the 'LoginPage' variable is undefined. What am I doing wrong?

Aeden

[Nicolas Perriault]

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Aeden Jameson <aeden....@gmail.com> wrote:

> when I use require and run the tests using casper test .... I get an error
> that the 'LoginPage' variable is undefined. What am I doing wrong?

This is how to do it:

# /login_page.coffee
class LoginPage
constructor: ->
console.log('plop')

exports.LoginPage = LoginPage

# /test.coffee
{LoginPage} = require './login_page.coffee'

login = new LoginPage() // prints "plop"

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[Aeden Jameson]

Bless your beautiful soul Nicolas. That worked perfectly. Now, how the the requires work with static variables. For instance say I have

/login_page.coffee

class LoginPage

  @LoginButton:'#login-button'

when I try to access

/test.coffee

casper.echo LoginPage.LoginButton

I get an error "undefined is not an object (evaluating 'LoginPage.LoginButton')

I'm relatively new in the JS ecosystem. Do you have a good resource for how these kinds of import mechanics work?

Aeden