Snapshot with executeClientScripts?

[Phyks]

Hi,

When using executeClientScripts: true, it seems the saved snapshot is the full response from the server (raw HTML content, including script) and not the browser-rendered DOM. Not sure if this is intended behavior but:

1/ This snapshot is most of the time of no use since the scripts will probably not be able to be played again at a later point in time (they will no longer be available on the source/online platform, therefore it is not possible to rebuild history from such snapshots).
2/ This snapshot cannot be used either to debug parsing errors/selector errors since it does not contain the full DOM which was processed (and downloading it is not enough for a non tech-savvy user, since CORS and other security policies won't let you download external JS from a local file in absence of a webserver).

Wouldn't it be better to save the full DOM from the browser (puppeteer) as a snapshot? If for some reason (e.g. traceability) we need the initial response from the server as well, what about keeping both of them as snapshots?

Thanks

[MattiSG]

@Ndpnt can you please confirm what is saved as snapshot content when the executeClientScripts option is set to true? 🙂

[Ndpnt]

Hi @Phyks,
I can confirm that the saved HTML is fully rendered, including any content dynamically loaded or modified by JavaScript. Could you share a concrete example?