Override configuration is not applied while using run-workers command

[KMKoushik]

What are you trying to achieve?

Used codeceptjs run-workers 2 -o '{"helpers": { "Puppeteer": { "url": "http://localhost", "show": false }}}' To override show option.

What do you get instead?

Option is not applied while running test

Details

• CodeceptJS version: 2.3.6
• NodeJS Version: 12.13.0
• Operating System: Linux, Ubuntu distro
• testcafe
• Configuration file:

{
  tests: './test/*test.js',
  output: './output',
  helpers: {
    Puppeteer: {
      url: 'http://localhost',
      show: true
    }
  },
  include: {},
  bootstrap: null,
  mocha: {},
  name: 'codepup'
}

[KMKoushik]

Findings:
While running run-worker js override config is loaded here. But it is not passed to the worker thread. Override config should also be passed along with options in worker data.

[neutraali]

... Sort of works? Using codeceptjs 3.0.0-beta.4

My override parameter is fine as JSON @ codecept.conf.js, but as it gets passed to workers something goes haywire?

(node:200) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: SyntaxError: Unexpected token p in JSON at position 3
    at JSON.parse (<anonymous>)
    at WorkerObject.addConfig (/Selenium/node_modules/codeceptjs/lib/workers.js:130:28)
    at Workers.overrideConfig (/Selenium/node_modules/codeceptjs/lib/workers.js:277:14)
    at Command.module.exports (/Selenium/node_modules/codeceptjs/lib/command/run-workers.js:33:11)
    at Command.listener (/Selenium/node_modules/commander/index.js:315:8)
    at Command.emit (events.js:314:20)
    at Command.parseArgs (/Selenium/node_modules/commander/index.js:651:12)
    at Command.parse (/Selenium/node_modules/commander/index.js:474:21)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Selenium/node_modules/codeceptjs/bin/codecept.js:188:9)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1076:30)

[KMKoushik]

@neutraali I will check this. I fixed this in 3.0. Meanwhile can you share with me the override config you just used?

[neutraali]

Hey @koushikmohan1996 - Glad someone's on this.

My override, when logged @ codecept.conf.js through yargs, looks something like this:

'{"port":8181,"tests":"/path/to/test.js","ci":false}'

If you want a printf %q -escaped shell version, here you go:

-o \"\{\"port\":8181\,\"tests\":\"/path/to/test.js\"\,\"ci\":false\}\"