Running galen with headless chrome?

[fritz @ pro!vision]

Hi. I am sure you are all aware that Google has released Chrome with a headless flag. How would I go about using that with Galen? Thanks.

[fritz @ pro!vision]

So I tried to run specs with

importClass(org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions);
importClass(org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver);


function inLocalBrowser(name, size, tags, browserType) {
 return new Device({
   deviceName: name,
   tags: tags,

   size: size,

   initDriver: function (url) {

     const options = new ChromeOptions();

   options.addArguments("--headless", "--disable-gpu");
     const driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

     this.driver = driver;

     return this.driver;

   },

   quit: function () {

     this.driver && this.driver.quit();

   }

 });
}

but I get "a timeout waiting for xxx element". It looks like galen is not able to interact with the driver.

Any pointers? Anyone? @ivan?

[tas...@drupart.net]

Did anyone managed to run tests with chrome headless?

[Alan Larimer]

I would love to see a solution here for Firefox as well.  The more the merrier.

[mehran....@googlemail.com]

Hi Fritz, i think you were only missing the navigation to the webpage. This is my working setup (tested with current galen and chromedriver):

initDriver: function (url) {
    const options = new ChromeOptions();

    // "--disable-gpu" is still needed for chrome on windows machines

    options.addArguments("--headless", "--disable-gpu");

    // Width and Height comma separated
    options.addArguments('--window-size=320,640');

    const driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

    // navigate the given url
    driver.navigate().to(url);

    this.driver = driver;
    return this.driver;

},Enter code here...

[Alan Larimer]

importClass(org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver);
importClass(org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions);
importClass(com.galenframework.utils.GalenUtils);
importClass(com.galenframework.browser.SeleniumBrowser);

var options = new FirefoxOptions().setHeadless(true);

var browser = new SeleniumBrowser(new FirefoxDriver(options));
browser.load(args[0]);
browser.changeWindowSize(GalenUtils.readSize(args[1]));

browser;

Checking the args is the next hurdle.  I don't know how to log what is being received and

if (args[0] != undefined && args[0] != null && args[0] != '')

is not working to support both

Login page headless
    jsfactory ${driverFile} ${pageUrl} ${size}
        check ${specFile}

and

Login page headless
    jsfactory ${driverFile}
        open ${pageUrl}
        resize ${size}
        check ${specFile}

[axel....@gmail.com]

Does anyone have an example for headless chrome please? I´m new to this

[Axel Barfod]

I tried the following but it isn't working because for some reason it isn't navigating.

function inLocalBrowserHeadless(name, size, tags, browserType) {

    return new Device({
        deviceName: name,
        tags: tags,
        size: size,
        initDriver: function (url) {

            console.log('inLocalBrowserHeadless');
            console.log(url);
            System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "./test/test-e2e/bin/drivers/chromedriver");

            const options = new ChromeOptions();

            var str = size.replace("x",",");
            options.addArguments("--headless",
                "--remote-debugging-port=9222",
                "--acceptInsecureCerts",
                "--window-size="+str);
            const d = new ChromeDriver(options);
            d.navigate().to(url);
            this.driver = d;
            //this.driver.navigate().to(url);

[mwalt...@gmail.com]

Are you trying to run headless chrome as root? If so try adding --no-sandbox to options.addArguements OR for the safer option, don't run as root

[tas...@drupart.net]

How do you add arguments like "--headless" in .galen.config file?

[Martin Reinhardt]

the next version of Galen will support this feature