How to override the preconfigured casper instance in a test environment - phantomjs

Question

i have installed the phantomjs 1.9.7 & casperjs 1.1.0 and now i see that all my scripts need to be updated and to remove the first line since it makes the below fatal error:
Fatal: you can't override the preconfigured casper instance in a test environment.
Docs: http://docs.casperjs.org/en/latest/testing.html#test-command-args-and-options
Reading also in another question i understand that i have to remove now this line from my scripts:
var casper = require('casper').create();
Which is a lot of work since i have meanwhile more then 200 script that needs to be updated!!!
So my question is how can i overcome this issue without updating all the scripts (mentioned in Can't run the testing framework in CasperJS)
var casper = require('casper').create();
if (casper.cli.has("ip") === false) {
casper.echo("Usage: casper.js test get_info.js --ip=<x.x.x.x>").exit();
}
casper.test.begin('get info', 1, function suite(test) {
casper.start("http://" + casper.cli.get("ip") + ":xxxx/man/", function() {
test.assertTitle("TEST GUI", "GUI has the correct title");
test.assertExists('form[name="loginForm"]', "login form is found");
this.fill('form[name="loginForm"]', {
'userId': 'xxxxx',
'password': 'yyyyy'
}, true);
});
casper.then(function() {
test.assertTextExists("Welcome", "Login into TEST GUI");
this.click('a#test_menu.menu1itemUnSel[tabindex="4"]');
});
casper.then(function() {
casper.wait(5000, function() {
this.echo('should appear after 5s');
});
});
casper.then(function() {
test.assertTextExists("TEST Data", "Login into Data");
this.click('a#test_menu_data.menu2itemUnSel[tabindex="4"]');
});
casper.then(function() {
casper.wait(5000, function() {
this.echo('should appear after 5s');
});
});
casper.then(function() {
test.assertTextExists("Logout", "Loggin out from TEST GUI");
this.click('a.minorLinkshighlight');
});
casper.run(function() {
test.done();
this.exit();
});
});
The above script was working before i installed the phantomjs 1.9.7 & casperjs 1.1.0, the only thing that i can't recall is which version i had before my server had to be reinstalled!
Thanks in adv.

Answer 1

Yes this is my way of avoiding updating old casperjs scripts due to the overriding of the preconfigured casper instance in a test environment!
go to the casperjs path and edit in path modules:
/../casperjs/modules/casper.js
and remark out the below lines:
exports.create = function create(options) {
"use strict";
// This is a bit of a hack to check if one is trying to override the preconfigured
// casper instance from within a test environment.
// if (phantom.casperTest && window.casper) {
// console.error("Fatal: you can't override the preconfigured casper instance in a test environment.");
// console.error("Docs: http://docs.casperjs.org/en/latest/testing.html#test-command-args-and-options");
// phantom.exit(1);
// }
return new Casper(options);
};
This worked for me. You should use it only on your own risk!