Protractor: async / await not working due to jasminewd2

[th3l0g4n]

I`m trying to use protractor with plain nodejs (not Typescript) and async functions as test callbacks.
Unfortunately an error appears telling me that these async functions are no functions.

Stacktrace:

1) some test encountered a declaration exception
  Message:
    Error: async function() {
        await browser.get('https://www.google.com');
    });
} is not a function
  Stack:
    Error: async function () {
            await browser.get('https://www.sixt-neuwagen.de');

            let blub = await ekomi.isDisplayed();
            expect(blub).toBe(true);
        } is not a function
        at validateFunction (/<some>/<path>/projects/protractor/node_modules/jasminewd2/index.js:21:11)
        at /<some>/<path>/projects/protractor/node_modules/jasminewd2/index.js:139:16
        at Suite.<anonymous> (/<some>/<path>/projects/protractor/specs/index.js:5:5)
        at Object.<anonymous> (/<some>/<path>/projects/protractor/specs/index.js:2:1)
        at Module._compile (module.js:571:32)
        at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:580:10)
        at Module.load (module.js:488:32)

Testsuite:

describe('some test', function() {
    it('should do something', async function() {
        await browser.get('https://www.google.com');
    });
});

Reason:
(Taken from jasminewd2 index.js)

function validateFunction(functionToValidate) {
  if (functionToValidate && Object.prototype.toString.call(functionToValidate) === '[object Function]') {
    return functionToValidate;
  } else {
    throw Error(functionToValidate + ' is not a function');
  }
}

Async functions checked with Object.prototype.toString.call(functionToValidate) evaluate to [object AsyncFunction].

Env:

• Node Version: 7.7.1
• Protractor Version: 5.1.1
• jasminewd2 Version: 2.0.0

[mantisbayne]

I suggest abstracting out async functions to their own exported module. I'm not sure Jasmine supports async/await. Even if it does, browser.get does not return a promise, so I don't think it will work the way you'd like. Here is what I would do:

navigation module

export async function goToPage(path) {
    await browser.get(address);
    // you may also want to use .waitForAngular() here
}

test

// import your module with navigation

describe('some test', () => {

   beforeAll((done) => {
      goToPage(address).then(done);
    });

  it('should do a thing', () => {
    // do your actual test actions and expectation here
  });
});

[th3l0g4n]

For opening a page this might be true, but what if you want to use all the async / await goodness in your tests?
It is said that the control-flow library will be deprecated in the near future (or maybe already is) and I guess that slight changes to the jasminewd2 dependency might make the whole thing work.

[sgen]

Jasmine does not support async / await at this time

[heathkit]

Sorry, your best option for now is to use TypeScript (or Babel or some other compiler).

[th3l0g4n]

Seems so, i wasnt aware trat there might be a problem in some 3rd party library.
Thanks anyway for hints and suggestions!

[davidclark87]

@th3l0g4n I'm hitting this same issue. I think it would be fixed by https://github.com/angular/jasminewd/pull/87.

[alexeyraspopov]

I hope someone from Protractor team can review my PR with potential fix for this issue.

[alexeyraspopov]

@heathkit, I was able to use async/await (without Babel) in my protractor tests after applying angular/jasminewd#87

[heathkit]

Thanks for the fix! I'll take a look.

[keithrz]

I am able to use async in protractor tests with the change from angular/jasminewd#87 applied manually to my node_modules/jasminewd2/index.js file.
I think angular/jasminewd#87 is worth the bump to new patch versions of both jasminewd and protractor. This provides a path forward to conversion. Thanks!!

[alexeyraspopov]

This ticket can be closed since https://github.com/angular/jasminewd/pull/87 is merged and new version is published.

[wswebcreation]

@alexeyraspopov

Tnx for the head-up, gonna close it

[settysreekanth]

I was facing the same issue; this got resolved after I uninstalled global protractor and reinstalled it and executed webdriver-manager update.

I was on protractor 5.1.1 when I faced the issue. Now I am on protractor 5.1.2 .