We use calabash for integration tests on a React Native project on iOS, and can’t use the packager. First even npm start wasn’t working so I thought it was a macOS Sierra issue with watchman (known issue) so I used El Capitan and this time npm start worked. After that, since it doesn’t continue the build and I changed that to nohop npm start > /dev/null &, but calabash still can neither start it’s own packager (fails with an error but continues running the tests) nor connect to the packager running(?) in the background.
Is there a way to make it work? Am I doing something wrong?
I am trying to run it locally right now but I could not set the RSS private key and couldn’t figure out the correct inputs for git-clone step. Anyway so I used my local project folder and I removed everything up to xcode test and calabash steps and now calabash steps throws an error about a version conflict in cucumber which I couldn’t resolve after fiddling with my local versions. But on the Bitrise it runs the tests actually with failing them due to the reason I stated. Maybe I should try it running in a container, but I couldn’t figure out how to add the repo url and private key to the activate-ssh and git clone. Also, xcode-test also has a simulator step which can run packager correctly. So I believe if I resolve the version conflict issue the tests would run fine.
It’s quite important to start with a clean git clone - most of these issues are not related to bitrise at all, instead related to something not under version control, or a dependency which’s version is not locked in your project and your local dependency version is not the same what bitrise.io gets when it runs the dependency manager (e.g. npm install / pod install / …) to get your project’s dependencies.
Yeah we have a similar setup that works fine right now. But the problem is in calabash step
I should outline the actual process to give you a little more context.
React Native when run in debug mode, gets the package from a packager which runs as a separate process. It’s a regular http server which serves a javascript file for the app to consume and runs on port 8081.
If the app cannot connect to this packager, it shows a red error screen.
For the calabash tests to run this packager should run and be reached by the app.
Do you have any guesses why the packager is not reachable?
