appium-chromedriver

Node.js wrapper around Chromedriver

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Local installation

Because of the oddities of npm's lifecycle hooks, installing locally the first time will fail, saying Project does not appear to built yet. Please run gulp transpile first.. This is because we transpile in the prepublish phase, but run the install script in the install phase. Any other way would make development dependencies necessary on user's machines, or make the binary not install, unfortunately.

The solution, however, is simple. Simple run gulp transpile and then npm install. The former will build the project and the latter will simply install the binary.

Usage

import Chromedriver from 'appium-chromedriver';

// 'sync'-like await/Promise usage
async function runSession() {
    let driver = new Chromedriver();
    const desiredCaps = {browserName: 'chrome'};
    await driver.start(desiredCaps);
    let status = await driver.sendCommand('/status', 'GET');
    await driver.stop();
}

// EventEmitter usage
function runSession2() {
    let driver = new Chromedriver();
    const desiredCaps = {browserName: 'chrome'};
    driver.start(desiredCaps);
    driver.on(Chromedriver.EVENT_CHANGED, function (msg) {
        if (msg.state === Chromedriver.STATE_ONLINE) {
            driver.sendCommand('/status', 'GET').then(function (status) {
                driver.stop();
            });
        }
    });
    driver.on(Chromedriver.EVENT_ERROR, function (err) {
        // :-(
    });
}

States

Here's what the Chromedriver state machine looks like:

Here are the events you can listen for:

• Chromedriver.EVENT_ERROR: gives you an error object
• Chromedriver.EVENT_CHANGED: gives you a state change object, with a state property that can be one of:
  • Chromedriver.STATE_STOPPED
  • Chromedriver.STATE_STARTING
  • Chromedriver.STATE_ONLINE
  • Chromedriver.STATE_STOPPING
  • Chromedriver.STATE_RESTARTING

Custom Chromedriver version

To use a version of Chromedriver not set in the code, use npm config property chromedriver_version.

npm install appium-chromedriver --chromedriver_version="2.16"

Or add the property into your .npmrc file.

chromedriver_version=2.16

Custom binaries url

To use a mirror of the ChromeDriver binaries use npm config property chromedriver_cdnurl. Default is http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com.

npm install appium-chromedriver --chromedriver_cdnurl=http://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/chromedriver

Or add the property into your .npmrc file.

chromedriver_cdnurl=http://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/chromedriver

Another option is to use PATH variable CHROMEDRIVER_CDNURL.

CHROMEDRIVER_CDNURL=http://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/chromedriver npm install appium-chromedriver

Dev

We use Gulp for building/transpiling.

Watch

npm run watch

Run Tests

npm test

Upgrading Chromedriver Version

When a new Chromedriver version is released, the details will be here. Which Chromedriver this package selects is based on the CHROMEDRIVER_CHROME_MAPPING in lib/chromedriver. Add a new entry to the top, with the correct version number and a random, but low, "minimum chrome version" (this will make it so that while this version is chosen, the test in the next step will fail for the right reason and give us the correct value to put here). To install, build then re-install the package:

npm run build
npm install

To get the minimum version of Chrome needed for the new Chromedriver, in one shell run Chromedriver

./chromedriver/<PLATFORM>/chromedriver[.exe] --verbose

And in anther shell, create a session by running the curl command

curl \
  -d '{"desiredCapabilities":{"chromeOptions":{"androidPackage":"com.android.chrome","androidDeviceSerial":"emulator-5554"}}}' \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -XPOST http://localhost:9515/session

This will fail, but in the error message will be the actual minimum Chrome version for this version of Chromedriver:

{
  "sessionId": "55dcde971731f3d1ce04b54d7664069c",
  "status": 33,
  "value": {
    "message": "session not created: Chrome version must be >= 68.0.3440.0\n  (Driver info: chromedriver=2.42.591059 (a3d9684d10d61aa0c45f6723b327283be1ebaad8),platform=Mac OS X 10.13.6 x86_64)"
  }
}

Take the number (e.g., here, 68.0.3440.0) and put the first three parts (68.0.3440.0) into the CHROMEDRIVER_CHROME_MAPPING, replacing the random value inserted at the beginning of this process.

Commit, push, and pull request!