How to get response from cy.exec()

Question

I am having hard time trying to get response from cy.exec() call. For example:

cy.exec("java -version").then((response) => {
  cy.log("response is " + response);
});

The output I have is looking like this:

log response is [object Object]

What do I do wrong here?

Answer 1

In the docs

cy.exec() yields an object with the following properties:

• code
• stdout
• stderr

So for your particular execution string, the response is probably on stdout

cy.exec("java -version").then((response) => {
  cy.log("response is " + response.stdout);
})