I need help with appium setup with javascript client for iOS

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I am new to appium. I setup appium javascript client for iOS testing. I am trying to run my test on iOS emulator and it is not working. I don’t know what is wrong. Here is the error message:
platformName = ‘iOS’,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Invalid shorthand property initializer
    at new Script (vm.js:84:7)
    at createScript (vm.js:264:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:312:10)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:694:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:745:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:626:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:566:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:558:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:663:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18)

Here is my code:

var webdriverio = require('webdriverio');
var expect = require ('chai').expect;
var config = require ('./helpers/desiredCapabilities').options;
var client = webdriverio.remote (config);
describe ('Simple cases', function (){
  before (function (){
    this.timeout(50000);
    return client.init();
  });
  describe('test-app-addition', function (){
    it('add-3-3', function(){
      return client.element('~IntegerA')
      .setValue ('3')
      .elementByAccessibilityId ('~IntegerB')
      .setValue('3')
      .click('~ComputeSumButton')
      .element('~Answer')
      .getText()
      .then(function (text){
        expect(text).to.equal('6');
      });
    });
  });
  after(function(){
    return client.end();
  });
});

Here is my helper:

    exports.options = {
      desiredCapabilities: {
        platformName = 'iOS',
        platformVersion = '12.1',
        //bundleid
        app = '/Users/pat/Desktop/tests/sample-code/sample-code/apps/TestApp/build/Release-iphonesimulator/TestApp-iphonesimulator.app',
        deviceName = 'iPhone X'
      },
      host: 'localhost',
      port: 4723    //appium server port
    };
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2

Please ignore. I figured it out. I was assigning object using = instead of :

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3

It would be great if you can post the solution you have figured out so others can get help from it…:slight_smile:

4

Done. My bad :dog::dog::dog:

5

What command are you using to run this? I’ve tried replicating as I’m getting errors on my old tests, and when I match your syntax I get this:

mocha ./test.js
2019-02-21T15:47:55.136Z DEBUG wdio-config: @wdio/sync not found, running tests asynchronous

(node:3754) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Required option “capabilities” is missing
at validateConfig (/Users/simon.g/appium/node_modules/@wdio/config/build/utils.js:168:13)
at Object.remote (/Users/simon.g/appium/node_modules/webdriverio/build/index.js:28:45)
at Object. (/Users/simon.g/appium/test.js:6:28)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:738:30)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:749:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:630:32)
at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:570:12)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:3)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:667:17)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18)
at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/lib/mocha.js:250:27
at Array.forEach ()
at Mocha.loadFiles (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/lib/mocha.js:247:14)
at Mocha.run (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/lib/mocha.js:576:10)
at Object. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/mocha/bin/_mocha:637:18)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:738:30)
at Object.Module._extensions…js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:749:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:630:32)
at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:570:12)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:801:12)
at internal/main/run_main_module.js:21:11
(node:3754) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:3754) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.
Main Describe
1) “before all” hook
2) “after all” hook

0 passing (8ms)
2 failing

  1. Main Describe
    “before all” hook:
    TypeError: client.init is not a function
    at Context. (test.js:17:19)

  2. Main Describe
    “after all” hook:
    TypeError: client.end is not a function
    at Context. (test.js:32:19)

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did you get solution for this error? I am also getting the same error.