Get email body with the check_inbox function about gmail-tester HOT 6 CLOSED

Hey @levz0r, I'm trying this out now and I believe that check_inbox has some useful functionality that get_messages is missing. That is, it waits for a while until it grabs the exact email you're looking for. I'm also writing some tests which rely on sending a registration email off and doing something with the body when it arrives in the gmail inbox, and I'm finding that if I use get_messages alone, then it gets them too early - before the email I want has arrived and my tests fail.

I can use check_inbox and then run get_messages, which works, and which I am resorting to now, but having the body come back as part of check_inbox for a single email sure would be handy. It would be far less code in the testing framework and also 1 let call to _get_recent_email.

Might it be worth accepting PR: #8 as submitted by @templth ?

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Here is the corresponding PR: #8

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Hi Thierry,

Thank you for your feedback :)

Basically, I'm thinking to make check_inbox obsolete in the further versions because there is no real need in it anymore.

Maybe I'm wrong though... What's you use case?

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Hey Lev,

You're welcome ;-)

My use case is to test the complete onboarding chain of an application:

• Register with an email
• Receive an email with a link in it to complete the registration process
• Go to this link
• Fill the remaining hints
• Finalize registration

Do you think it possible to achieve this without using the check_inbox function? If so, what can I use instead?

Thanks very much!
Thierry

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Absolutely possible!

You can read how we test a similar process here: https://medium.com/p/how-to-poll-a-gmail-inbox-in-cypress-io-a4286cfdb888

Feel free to open a ticket if appropriate.

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P.S

In the post we are using check_inbox, because we do not do assertions on the email body. If we would need to that, we would use get_messages...

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