How to get the User Home directory of node machine

[Sujay Naganagoudar]

Can anyone please let me know how to retrieve the USER home directory path of a remote machine (Node) where the selenium node is executing the tests.

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

You can do it in the following way :

1. Build a new custom servlet which exposes a GET method which when called will return back the output of System.getProperty("user.home")

2. Inject the servlet built in step (1) into your node.

3. Once a new session has been created via the RemoteWebDriver, call getSessionId() to get the session id and use it to target the actual node to which the test was routed to, and invoke the servlet built in step (2)

How to build a custom servlet and inject it into the grid :

My blog post : https://rationaleemotions.wordpress.com/2013/01/28/building-a-self-maintaining-grid-environment/

Selenium documentation : http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/07_selenium_grid.jsp#customizing-the-grid

How to use a RemoteWebDriver's sessionId, query the grid and get the IP and port of the node to which your test was routed to :

The sample code in this gist post of mine should tell you how : https://gist.github.com/krmahadevan/1766772

Thanks & Regards
Krishnan Mahadevan

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On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 3:27 PM, Sujay Naganagoudar <suja...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can anyone please let me know how to retrieve the USER home directory path of a remote machine (Node) where the selenium node is executing the tests.

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[PeterJeffreyGale]

From previous comments that Krishnan has made on related topics, I think you would need to deploy a java sevlet into your app which could then get the info.

If you explain what you nerd it for, someone may be able to propose an easier solution.