[Question]: Dynamic use of session storage

[aluckin3]

Question

Hi,
i am trying to set up dynamic usage of session storage for multiple roles like in playwright documentation: https://playwright.dev/docs/auth#multiple-signed-in-roles

Currently i am using use state for one user, and tried to comment it and use across different steps, but it is not possible as i am getting this error:

    Most common reasons include:
    - You are calling test.use() in a configuration file.
    - You are calling test.use() in a file that is imported by the configuration file.
    - You have two different versions of @playwright/test. This usually happens
      when one of the dependencies in your package.json depends on @playwright/test.

I also tried with .addCookies but it didn't work for me. Do you have any suggestion how to use it?

[vitalets]

Hi! Could you create a minimal repro, based on https://github.com/vitalets/playwright-bdd-example? I'll take a look.

[aluckin3]

Hi @vitalets, here it is: https://github.com/aluckin3/playwright-bdd-example

[vitalets]

This is the case: test.use is declarative and can be placed only on the top level of the file. Even in Playwright it's not possible to call test.use inside a test:

Given('I am on Playwright home page as dev', async ({ page }) => {
  test.use({ storageState: '.auth/admin.json' }); // <-- will not work
  await page.goto('https://playwright.dev');
});

The solution is to create own page with the provided storage state. Here's an example: https://github.com/vitalets/playwright-bdd/blob/main/examples/auth-in-steps/features/steps/index.ts#L5