Nightwatch: Page Object .navigate() method should allow params passing to url function

[davecranwell]

I've got a page object like this:

somePage.js:

module.exports = {
    url: function(fooId = 123) { 
        return `${this.api.launchUrl}/foo/${fooId}/bar`; 
    },
    sections: {
        ...blah
    }   
};

I'd like to be able to use it for testing any number of different users with varying access to different fooIds. So when I want to test user X's ability to access 123 I feel it would make sense to use the exact same page object as user Y, who can only access 456.

e.g:

"Can user access their private foos": function (browser) {
    var somePage = browser.page.somePage();
    somePage.navigate(456).waitForElementVisible('body', 10000, false, function() {
        // Yay;
    });     
}

Is this possible? Is there any other way of doing it? Or am I misunderstanding something fundamental about how to architect Page Objects so they're generic?

It seems my only way to achieve this is thus, which seems avoidably verbose:

"Can user access their private foos": function (browser) {
        var somePage = browser.page.somePage();
        var newUrl = somePage.url(456);
    browser.url(newUrl).waitForElementVisible('body', 10000, false, function() {
        //Yay
    });
}

[Zechtitus]

pretty sure you can write your own navigate func like this

function fNavigate(somePath) {
  return this.api
    .url(`${this.api.launchUrl}/foo/${somePath}/bar`)
    .waitForElementVisible('body', 10000, false);
}

module.exports = {
  commands: [
    {
      navigate: fNavigate,
    },
  ],
  elements: { },
};

and then calling

"Can user access their private foos": function (browser) {
        var somePage = browser.page.somePage();

    somePage
            .navigate(456)
            .click('xyz') // some other chained command
            .perform(() => { // do something async }));
}

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[kierans]

pretty sure you can write your own navigate func like this

This no longer works as I get the error

Error: Trying to overwrite page object/section "providers"  method/property "navigate".

(where providers is the name of my page object)