How to access global variable in global 'after' hook?

[kretschmannj]

I'm creating a global variable in a globals.js file like so ...

module.exports = {
    
    myGlobalVar : '',

When I run my tests, I'm appending values to the global variable like so ...

browser.globals.myGlobalVar = browser.globals.myGlobalVar + 'commercial_test\n'

How do I print out the value of the global variable to the console log at the very end of the test? I tried to use a global 'after' hook for this (defined in the globals.js) like so ...

    after: (done) => {
        console.log(this.myGlobalVar)
        done()
    },

However, that displays "undefined".

[DustinOgan]

'this' won't work in the same way with fat arrow ("=>") functions

Try changing your test steps where you are setting and printing "this" to the older function definition style . I think that should work for you

function(blah){
//blah
};

this write up breaks it down nicely
https://github.com/anirudh-modi/JS-essentials/blob/master/ES2015/Functions/Arrow%20functions.md#how-this-is-different-for-arrow-functions