new FirefoxDriver() not working

[mark czerwin]

I'm using the Beta 3 version with Gecko on windows10

This code just terminates at this line driver =new FirefoxDriver();

I assume a null pointer exception is given

Firefox is not invoked 

package seleniumPackage;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class NewWebDriverClass {

public static void main(String[] args) {

WebDriver driver;

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "c:\\temp");

driver =new FirefoxDriver();

driver.get("http://google.com");

System.out.println(driver.getTitle());

driver.close();

}

}

Any help much appreciated.

[Aniket Mane]

Mark,
As a second parameter of setproperty you should give path upto geckodriver exe.

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "c:\\temp");

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[mark czerwin]

Thanks for the reply, but that is what I am doing the path is c:\temp

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[⇜Krishnan Mahadevan⇝]

Mark,

Can you please share the complete stacktrace ?

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[Ashish Juyal]

Hi Mark,

                selenium webdriver comes default with firefox driver you dont have to mention setProperty for ff driver,check the compatibility of webdriver and browser may be thats the issue.

Regards

Ashish Juyal

[mark czerwin]

I'm using the latest driver with the latest Firefox

Without the setProperty it still fails

Stacktrace....

at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.build(DriverService.java:296)

at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.createCommandExecutor(FirefoxDriver.java:245)

at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:220)

at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:215)

at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:211)

at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:124)

at seleniumPackage.NewWebDriverClass.main(NewWebDriverClass.java:14)

[Ashish Juyal]

Hi Mark,

                 Try the below code for gecko driver.

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\Work\\WORK\\Selenium\\geckodriver.exe");
        DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
        capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities);
        driver.get("http://www.google.com");

Regards

Ashish Juyal

[mark czerwin]

Thanks,

From this I determined that the actual executable name: gecko.exe needs to be in the path set as the second parameter to setProperty. So not only does the path to the executable need to be specified but the actual executable name itself, this is not the way system variables which are paths work normally.

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "c:\\temp\\geckodriver.exe");

That worked.

The SeleniumHQ documentation needs to be updated to explain that the Geckodriver is necessary and how to use it.

 

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[Aniket]

Mark,

Thats what i had told you.

You have to give path upto the exe.
But its good that its working now.

On Tuesday, August 23, 2016 at 4:14:14 PM UTC+5:30, mark czerwin wrote:

Thanks,

From this I determined that the actual executable name: gecko.exe needs to be in the path set as the second parameter to setProperty. So not only does the path to the executable need to be specified but the actual executable name itself, this is not the way system variables which are paths work normally.

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "c:\\temp\\geckodriver.exe");

That worked.

The SeleniumHQ documentation needs to be updated to explain that the Geckodriver is necessary and how to use it.

 

From: seleniu...@googlegroups.com [mailto:seleniu...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Ashish Juyal
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2016 3:32 AM
To: seleniu...@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [selenium-users] Re: new FirefoxDriver() not working

 

Hi Mark,

                 Try the below code for gecko driver.

 

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C:\\Work\\WORK\\Selenium\\geckodriver.exe");
        DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
        capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);
        WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(capabilities);
        driver.get("http://www.google.com");

 

 

Regards

Ashish Juyal

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