How can I pass browser arguments using Ruby

pmneve · April 1, 2015, 12:54am

I would like to send these arguments to the browser in the android emulator: ‘–ignore-certificate-errors’, ‘homepage=about:blank’, ‘test_type’
Need to speed things up and avoid certificate error alerts (until I figure out how to actually dismiss them… haven’t hit on the right command yet).

    desired_caps = {
        'newCommandTimeout'              => 600,
        'androidDeviceReadyTimeout'      => 420,
        'avdLaunchTimeout'               => 240000,
        'avdReadyTimeout'                => 240000,
        'deviceName'                     => "My_device",
        'platformName'                   => "Android",
        'avd'                            => "poc",
        'browserName'                    => "Browser",
        'avdArgs'                        => '-http-proxy 151.151.15.250:8080 -dns-server 10.27.206.11,10.27.206.101,10.91.218.197',
        # :chrome => { 'args' => ['--ignore-certificate-errors', 'homepage=about:blank', 'test_type']},
        # 'specialChromedriverSessionArgs' => { 'ignore-certificate-errors'=>true, 'homepage'=>'about:blank', 'test_type'=>true }
    }

Right now am using appium 1.2.0 (having trouble updating primarily because of a bunch of older versions of various things getting in the way that I can’t delete but have to do PATH kludges to get around.) chromedriver 2.9 and android sdk 22.6.

bootstraponline · April 2, 2015, 9:30pm

I think you need to use chrome options args. See the upstream gem:

github.com

SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/f39c6d76fd348c3471cfff349c83e5069162c339/rb/spec/unit/selenium/webdriver/chrome/bridge_spec.rb#L31


it "sets the nativeEvents capability" do
  Bridge.new(:http_client => http, :native_events => true)


  caps['chromeOptions']['nativeEvents'].should be true
  caps['chrome.nativeEvents'].should be true
end


it "sets the args capability" do
  Bridge.new(:http_client => http, :args => %w[--foo=bar])


  caps['chromeOptions']['args'].should == %w[--foo=bar]
  caps['chrome.switches'].should == %w[--foo=bar]
end


it "sets the proxy capabilitiy" do
  proxy = Proxy.new(:http => "localhost:1234")
  Bridge.new(:http_client => http, :proxy => proxy)


  caps['proxy'].should == proxy
end

pmneve · April 8, 2015, 12:05am

Super! Will give that a try!

pmneve · April 17, 2015, 5:48pm

Thanks! That does it!