Detox: Timeout with long-polling connection

[gtRfnkN]

Description

We are building an RN app with the Pubnub publish-subscribe SDK included. Apparently this SDK relies on long-polling data. So, when running a detox test with an open Pubnub subscription, it will always time out, because it will wait forever for the connection to close.

When running with debug-synchronization this is the output:

detox info Sync App State: Waiting for network requests to finish.: (
detox info Sync     "https://ps16.pndsn.com/v2/subscribe/sub-c-xxx/xxx/0?heartbeat=300&tt=123&tr=123&uuid=123&pnsdk=PubNub-JS-ReactNative%2F4.15.1&auth=xxx"
detox info Sync )

Is there a way to manually ignore that connection? I have also found How do we turn off automatic synchronization?, but this isn't useable yet, is it?

Steps to Reproduce

1. use Pubnub (or another library with long-polling)
2. write an detox test for it
3. test will time out due to the long polling connection never closing

Node, Device, Xcode and macOS Versions

• Node: 5.3.0
• Yarn: 1.0.1
• Device: iPhone 7 Plus
• Xcode: 8.3.3
• macOS: macOS Sierra 10.12.6

[rotemmiz]

You're right, this section of the docs was not updated.
Here is the related API you need: https://github.com/wix/detox/blob/master/docs/APIRef.DeviceObjectAPI.md#deviceseturlblacklisturls

I'll update the docs and close this issue, please keep it open till docs are updated.
Thanks!

[rotemmiz]

Docs are updated

[gtRfnkN]

Thank you very much for that fast and helpful response!
Using device.setURLBlacklist(['.*pndsn\\.com.*'])works perfectly!

One small thing, though. In the docs for setURLBlacklist() it says to block urls like this: '.*my.ignored.endpoint.*'. But shouldn't it be a regex, as stated in the EarlGrey docs? So the dot should be escaped?

[rotemmiz]

You're probably right, I believe this is a mistake in our docs