Helper loading issues

[pim]

Hey,

I had some troubles with creating my own helper I’d like to share.

I created one with codeceptjs gh command and then run the whole suite with codeceptjs run --steps.

This is the error I got:

Error: Could not load helper UrlHelper from module './helper/UrlHelper'
Cannot find module './helper/UrlHelper'

The fix for this was changing this line in container.js to:

let HelperClass = require(helperModule = config[helperName].require || './helper/'+helperName);

After this, the error was:

Error: Could not load helper UrlHelper from module './url_helper.js'
Cannot find module './url_helper.js'

I had a feeling that it tried to look for my module in /usr/local/lib/node_modules/codeceptjs (where container.js is), so I replaced ./url_helper.js in my package.json with an absolute path to the file. The file was loaded correctly after doing this.

The next error was that it couldn’t find codeceptjs/helper module that I require in my url_helper.js file, so I replaced it with an ugly absolute path to it /usr/local/lib/node_modules/codeceptjs/lib/helper. The helper was loaded correctly after this.

While it all works now for me, relying on absolute paths isn’t really a solution so I think I must be doing something wrong. Any help will be appreciated! I’m on node v4.2.3 if that helps.

Thanks!

[DavertMik]

Thanks for the great report. I didn't check helpers loading for global installation. Shame on me
I will try to get it fixed asap

[pim]

Thanks a lot!