Using async/await inside setter when promise manager is off

[StanislavKharchenko]

Hi there!
As I know due to 2969 the PROMISE_MANAGER will be deprecated, and so protractor will not use it at all.

Currently, I'm using setter to fill web-elements in page-objects, like:

set Information(value) {
    this.information.sendKeys(value);
}

And use it inside test case:

it('Filling Information', () => {
    mainPage.Information = "Advanced info";
});

Which has a good laconic style, instead of usage of methods.

But if PROMISE_MANAGER = off I need to use async/await statements, which are not allowed within setter. So, I can't use such approach.

Does protractor has some workaround for this example?

Thank you.

Feature Request

• To have laconic style in test cases to fill data in web-pages. Functionality worked with PROMISE_MANAGER=on
• This is a not breaking change.

[kylecordes]

I'm now using Protractor solely in the new async await style. My suggestion for the above is to not do the thing with the set. It seems quite un-idiomatic to me, that calling set causes a side effect on a remote system. I suggest naming the method in a way that suggests what it is doing.