Cypress error when testing nested iframes in headless mode - race condition

[maltewirz]

I am testing a web app and the test runs reliably in headed mode (cypress open) but has errors in headless mode (cypress run), so it's likely a race condition that I cannot resolve. The error message is:

[36819:0223/163815.745047:ERROR:system_services.cc(34)] SetApplicationIsDaemon: Error Domain=NSOSStatusErrorDomain Code=-50 "paramErr: error in user parameter list" (-50)

This error is mentioned again when Cypress creates a video of the incident:

-  Started processing:  Compressing to 32 CRF                                                     
2022-02-23 17:00:19.700 Cypress Helper[37571:416134] In -[NSApplication(NSQuietSafeQuit) _updateCanQuitQuietlyAndSafely], _LSSetApplicationInformationItem(NSCanQuitQuietlyAndSafely) returned error -50
-  Finished processing: /Users/malte.wirz/Documents/iframes-cypress-issue/cypress/videos/iframe-github.js.mp4     (3 seconds)

I created a demo repository here. To reproduce, clone it, run yarn to install, and yarn cypress:run. The test does pass, but with the error mentioned above.

I assume that the error stems from accessing the nested iframes and I tested 5 different approaches so far, but to no avail. I especially made sure that the function getIframeBody waits until each iframe and the requested element is ready. The error also creates a video, but you can only see the successful run, the error message is not visible there.

Any help on how to debug this further is much appreciated.

describe('Testing Iframe within Iframes', () => {
    it('Visits the iframe website and accesses the iframe within the iframe', () => {
      const getIframeBody = (iframeSelector, elementSelectorInIframe) => {
        return cy
        .get(iframeSelector)
        .its('0.contentDocument.body', {timeout: 30000})
        .should((body) => {
          expect(Cypress.$(body).has(elementSelectorInIframe).length).gt(0)
        })
        .then(cy.wrap)
      }

      // Visiting the page index.html and getting iframe A
      cy.visit('index.html').contains('XHR in iframe')
      getIframeBody('iframe[data-cy="bankid"]', 'iframe[src="https://tools.bankid.no/bankid-test/auth"]').as('iframeA')

      cy.get('@iframeA').within(() => {
        getIframeBody('iframe[src="https://tools.bankid.no/bankid-test/auth"]', 'iframe[src^="https://csfe.bankid.no/CentralServerFEJS"]').as('iframeB')

        cy.get('@iframeB').within(() => {
          getIframeBody('iframe[src^="https://csfe.bankid.no/CentralServerFEJS"]', 'input[type="tel"]').as('iframeC')

          // Now we are in the right place and it finds the correct input element.
          // However, normal cypress command .type() fails and we have to use library cypress-real-events,
          // which provides an event firing system that works literally like in puppeteer
          cy.get('@iframeC').find('input[type="tel"]').should('be.visible').realType('12345678912')

          // But for the button below, this library now doesn't help anymore:
          // "Failed to execute 'getComputedStyle' on 'Window': parameter 1 is not of type 'Element'."
          // This was solved by using {scrollBehavior:false}.
          cy.get('@iframeC').find('button[type="submit"]').should('be.visible').first().realClick({scrollBehavior:false})
        })
      })
    })
})

[maltewirz]

Update: I got some feedback that the above "ERROR:system_services.cc(34)" is not critical and does not cause flaky or unsuccessful tests, therefore there are no action points.