Switching driver to safari for Facebook login and back to iOS afterward?

[Timothy Brandt]

Hey Guys -

Is anyone successfully automating a Facebook login pop-up in Safari & switching back to an iOS driver to continue testing their app?

I was checking out this example, and I am not sure if it is still relevant for Appium 1.0 :

http://pastebin.com/7Jn7W9hM

I also referenced these threads :

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/appium-discuss/38wLkiS_7L0

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/appium-discuss/38wLkiS_7L0

This is the script that I currently have :

http://pastebin.com/GKDx63Vc

I get the following error :

Failures:

  1) Login allows to log in using the correct credentials

     Failure/Error: Appium::Driver.new(caps: web_capabilities).start_driver

     Selenium::WebDriver::Error::WebDriverError:

       We don't have write access to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator7.1.sdk/Applications/MobileSafari.app, please re-run authorize as timothybrandt

     # ./RevelIntegrationTest_sample.rb:45:in `setup_safari'

     # ./RevelIntegrationTest_sample.rb:64:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

Finished in 9.5 seconds (files took 0.27382 seconds to load)

1 example, 1 failure

Failed examples:

Anyone have a good example of how to set this up using Appium 1.0+ ?

Thanks

[Timothy Brandt]

Alright - I got past the permissions errors using sudo authorize-ios

But, it looks like when I switch the to safari driver, it closes the iOS app and opens up safari in a separate window.

Is there anyway to keep these seamless, where my app pops open the Facebook login & I can use the driver to populate the login form?

Has anyone successfully encountered this issue? Thanks

[Timothy Brandt]

Wait is this what I'm looking for?

http://appium.io/slate/en/master/?ruby#automating-hybrid-ios-apps

Is the Facebook login loaded in the web context?

[Timothy Brandt]

I think I've got it :

puts "available_contexts"

puts available_contexts

puts "current_context"

puts current_context

################################

available_contexts

NATIVE_APP

WEBVIEW_1

current_context

[Timothy Brandt]

Yep, that was it. I just needed to change the context to WEBVIEW.
I was unaware about the whole context thing.

I'll leave this thread here in case anyone else is as oblivious as I was.

[Isaac Murchie]

Thanks for this Timothy! It was both entertaining and instructive.

Cheers,

Isaac.

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[Timothy Brandt]

Yes - 

My stream of consciousness is often entertaining.

Having no previous experience w/ Selenium or integration testing at all, and only 6 months of iOS dev experience,

I came into this missing that pool of assumed knowledge most of your audience probably has.

So, it took me a while to just to find heads or tails w/ all the boilerplate.

I think that I have a good handle on how everything works, now. 

Learned the hard way, of course.

[Timothy Brandt]

Ok - here's another one.

It looks like I can only call available_contexts once within my spec script.

The second time, the script freezes up or returns null.

Any thoughts?

[Jonathan Lipps]

If the actual app changes, then this will not be possible on iOS. It would be possible if the FB login is in a webview embedded in your app.

App switching is unfortunately not possible with iOS

[Timothy Brandt]

Hey Jonathon -

So, you are about the 5th person to mention that I should be using a webview embedded in my app for the login.

I believe that I just plugged in face books example. Any advice on where I can find out how to update our app's login to have an embedded web view?

Thanks

[Jonathan Lipps]

Sorry, I'm not super familiar with how things actually work on the FB integration side--I just know what's testable on the iOS side, and Apple doesn't allow us to maintain an automation context if your app switches to another one :-/

[Timothy Brandt]

Hmmm ... but I am able to switch to the WEBVIEW & back to the NATIVE_APP view just fine in my test.

The problem is that when I launch a new driver for the second test. I am unable to query or switch contexts.

Make sense?

[Jonathan Lipps]

Could it be this issue? https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/2766

[Timothy Brandt]

That's the issue that I opened that Isaac is checking out.

[Jonathan Lipps]

Sounds like it's the one then :-)