Getting while starting the appium server using appium.js and node.exe

Issues/Bugs
1

Hi All,

As per the below logs I am trying to start and stop appium server in my program and facing the issue. It is saying appium started and getting ‘unreachable browser exception’

Thanks

Code:

public class day1 {
public static void main( String[] args ) throws IOException, InterruptedException {

    String start_server = "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Appium\\node.exe C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Appium\\node_modules\\appium\\bin\\appium.js";

Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(start_server);

    if (process!=null)
    {
        System.out.print("Appium Started");
    }
    else

{
System.out.print(“Appium not Started”);
}

    Thread.sleep(12000);


    DesiredCapabilities cap = new DesiredCapabilities();
    .........................................................
    .........................................................

if (process!=null)
{
process.destroy();
Thread.sleep(4000);
System.out.println(“Stopped the Server”);
}

Error Logs

Appium Started

Exception in thread “main” org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Could not start a new session. Possible causes are invalid address of the remote server or browser start-up failure.
Build info: version: ‘2.53.0’, revision: ‘35ae25b1534ae328c771e0856c93e187490ca824’, time: ‘2016-03-15 10:43:46’
System info: host: ‘DESKTOP-NDEUQ56’, ip: ‘192.168.0.103’, os.name: ‘Windows 10’, os.arch: ‘amd64’, os.version: ‘10.0’, java.version: ‘1.8.0_73’
Driver info: driver.version: AndroidDriver
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:665)
at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.execute(AppiumDriver.java:180)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:249)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.(RemoteWebDriver.java:131)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.(RemoteWebDriver.java:158)
at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.(AppiumDriver.java:109)
at io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver.(AndroidDriver.java:39)
at com.test.day1.main(day1.java:59)
Caused by: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connect to 127.0.0.1:4723 [/127.0.0.1] failed: Connection refused: connect
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.HttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(HttpClientConnectionOperator.java:140)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.connect(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:314)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.establishRoute(MainClientExec.java:363)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:219)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:195)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:86)
at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:108)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:186)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:72)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:57)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.internal.ApacheHttpClient.fallBackExecute(ApacheHttpClient.java:144)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.internal.ApacheHttpClient.execute(ApacheHttpClient.java:90)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:142)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:644)
… 7 more
Caused by: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.waitForConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.DualStackPlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(DualStackPlainSocketImpl.java:85)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206)
at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:172)
at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589)
at org.apache.http.conn.socket.PlainConnectionSocketFactory.connectSocket(PlainConnectionSocketFactory.java:72)
at org.apache.http.impl.conn.HttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(HttpClientConnectionOperator.java:117)

2

@Rock, Are you able to launch appium manually with the string that you are using in the script?

3

@SireeshaSimakurthy I did not try that, but I used to launch appium manually and tried launching with the code. But the problem I see here is saying as appium started but getting this error while in desired capabilities, think so. And is there any way to handle space in between ‘Program Files’?

4

You should use main.js instead of appium.js node-modules/appium/build/lib/main.js

1 Like
5

To avoid space between Program Files you can use below java code

System.getenv(“ProgramFiles”); OR System.getenv("%programfiles% (x86)");
Note:
Above code will work only on Windows machine

I think the exception you are getting is not because of space between Program Files. You should point to main.js instead of appium.js

Recheck it once by updating the location path to main.js