Property 'request' does not exist on type 'HTMLElement'. during request aliasing

[CSchulz]

Current behavior

cy.get with an alias for requests returns a JQuery instead of a http response interface.

There was also no notice in the change log about a behavior change.

Desired behavior

cy.get should return Cypress.Response type to enable response status checks and similar like in the code example.

Test code to reproduce

cy.request('https://jsonplaceholder.cypress.io/comments').as('comments')

cy.get('@comments').should((response) => {
  if (response.status === 200) {
    expect(response).to.have.property('duration')
  } else {
    // whatever you want to check here
  }
})

https://docs.cypress.io/guides/core-concepts/variables-and-aliases#Requests

Cypress Version

11.2.0

Node version

16.15.0

Operating System

Windows 10

Debug Logs

No response

Other

No response

[CSchulz]

After some research by my collegue it should be Cypress.WaitXHR instead of HTMLElement.

[emilyrohrbough]

@CSchulz thank you for reporting this Typescript issue. It looks like we have programmed our types for get(alias) to return a JQuery element here. TypeScript is not my strongest, but it looks like we should be stricter on our alias matches and then support just about anything since any yielded value could be aliases - jquery element, response, string, object.

Is this something you would be interested in contributing?

For the time being, you could override this type locally to get around this error.

// load the global Cypress types
/// <reference types="cypress" />

declare namespace Cypress {
  type AliasSelector = `@${string}`
  interface Chainable {
    /**
     * Custom command to select DOM element by data-cy attribute.
     * @example cy.dataCy('greeting')
     */
    get(alias: AliasSelector): Chainable<any>
  }
}

it('issue 24823', () => {
  cy.request('https://jsonplaceholder.cypress.io/comments').as('comments')

  cy.get('@comments')
  .should((response: Cypress.Response<any>) => {
    if (response.status === 200) {
      expect(response).to.have.property('duration')
    } else {
      // whatever you want to check here
    }
  })
})

[fubha]

Hi @emilyrohrbough, I am experiencing the same issue.
The workaround you mentioned above does't seem to be working at my end. Is there any update on this?
Thanks!

[cypress-app-bot]

This issue has not had any activity in 180 days. Cypress evolves quickly and the reported behavior should be tested on the latest version of Cypress to verify the behavior is still occurring. It will be closed in 14 days if no updates are provided.

[matthieu-deroo]

This issue still exists in Cypress 14