can't use HtmlUnitDriver

[BillR]

I thought I'd give HtmlUnit another try, the third in ~5 years. This time I can't even load a web page:

Webdriver: 2.39.0

        WebDriver driver = new HtmlUnitDriver();

        driver.get(url);

testBasicFunction(com.xoom.xip.e2e.dashboard.DashboardTest)  Time elapsed: 0.937 sec  <<< FAILURE!

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(Lorg/apache/http/HttpHost;Lorg/apache/http/HttpRequest;Lorg/apache/http/protocol/HttpContext;)Lorg/apache/http/client/methods/CloseableHttpResponse;

        at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.HttpWebConnection.getResponse(HttpWebConnection.java:167)

        at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.loadWebResponseFromWebConnection(WebClient.java:1281)

        at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.loadWebResponse(WebClient.java:1198)

        at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.getPage(WebClient.java:307)

        at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.getPage(WebClient.java:376)

        at org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitDriver.get(HtmlUnitDriver.java:474)

        at org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.HtmlUnitDriver.get(HtmlUnitDriver.java:463)

        at com.xoom.xip.e2e.dashboard.DashboardTest.testBasicFunction(DashboardTest.java:31)

In local pom:

        <dependency>

                <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

                <artifactId>selenium-api</artifactId>

                <version>${selenium.version}</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

            <artifactId>selenium-support</artifactId>

            <version>${selenium.version}</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

            <artifactId>selenium-server</artifactId>

            <version>${selenium.version}</version>

        </dependency>

        <dependency>

            <groupId>xml-apis</groupId>

            <artifactId>xml-apis</artifactId>

            <version>1.4.01</version>

        </dependency>

In a parent pom:

<commons.httpclient.version>4.3.1</commons.httpclient.version>

<dependency>

<groupId>commons-httpclient</groupId>

<artifactId>commons-httpclient</artifactId>

<version>${commons.httpclient.version}</version>

<exclusions>

<exclusion>

<groupId>commons-logging</groupId>

<artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId>

</exclusion>

</exclusions>

</dependency>

Is HtmlUnit dead?

Thanks,

Bill

[Chris Merrill]

We gave up on HtmlUnit. Much better results with PhantomJS.

Chris

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[Krishnan Mahadevan]

Personally I have never had to use HtmlUnitDriver but I second Chris.GhostDriver (which leverages PhantomJS under the hoods) is a lot better than HtmlUnitDriver.

Bill, I think your problem is due to a messed up dependency. Is that all you have as dependencies as what you have shown or are there any other sections which you haven't included ? [ for e.g., inhouse libraries which you may have chosen not to share about ]

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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[BillR]

Krishnan, there are many other dependencies, TestNG for example, but not relevant to the issue I think. I'll take a look at GhostDriver.

Thanks,

Bill