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Network Replay

Now you can record network traffic into a HAR file and re-use the data in your tests.

To record network into HAR file:

npx playwright open --save-har=github.har.zip https://github.com/microsoft

Alternatively, you can record HAR programmatically:

const context = await browser.newContext({
  recordHar: { path: 'github.har.zip' }
});
// ... do stuff ...
await context.close();

Use the new methods page.routeFromHAR() or browserContext.routeFromHAR() to serve matching responses from the HAR file:

await context.routeFromHAR('github.har.zip');

Read more in our documentation.

Advanced Routing

You can now use route.fallback() to defer routing to other handlers.

Consider the following example:

// Remove a header from all requests.
test.beforeEach(async ({ page }) => {
  await page.route('**/*', route => {
    const headers = route.request().headers();
    delete headers['if-none-match'];
    route.fallback({ headers });
  });
});

test('should work', async ({ page }) => {
  await page.route('**/*', route => {
    if (route.request().resourceType() === 'image')
      route.abort();
    else
      route.fallback();
  });
});

Note that the new methods page.routeFromHAR() and browserContext.routeFromHAR() also participate in routing and could be deferred to.

Web-First Assertions Update

Component Tests Update

Read more about component testing with Playwright.

Miscellaneous

  • If there's a service worker that's in your way, you can now easily disable it with a new context option serviceWorkers:
    // playwright.config.ts
    export default {
      use: {
        serviceWorkers: 'block',
      }
    }
  • Using .zip path for recordHar context option automatically zips the resulting HAR:
    const context = await browser.newContext({
      recordHar: {
        path: 'github.har.zip',
      }
    });
  • If you intend to edit HAR by hand, consider using the "minimal" HAR recording mode
    that only records information that is essential for replaying:
    const context = await browser.newContext({
      recordHar: {
        path: 'github.har.zip',
        mode: 'minimal',
      }
    });
  • Playwright now runs on Ubuntu 22 amd64 and Ubuntu 22 arm64. We also publish new docker image mcr.microsoft.com/playwright:v1.23.0-focal.

⚠️ Breaking Changes ⚠️

WebServer is now considered "ready" if request to the specified port has any of the following HTTP status codes:

  • 200-299
  • 300-399 (new)
  • 400, 401, 402, 403 (new)

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