Download Browser driver binding from Maven repository

[Vimal Kumar]

Hi All,

Like Jars file, is it possible to download various browser drivers like Chrome, Firefox, Edge using Maven dependency pom xml

Thanks
Vimal

[Ragnor]

Hello,

Yes you can do by using "webdriver-manager". 

Refr:- https://github.com/bonigarcia/webdrivermanager

Simpy add dependency in POM xml:

mvnrepository URL- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.github.bonigarcia/webdrivermanager/3.4.0

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.github.bonigarcia/webdrivermanager -->

<dependency>

    <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>

    <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>

    <version>3.4.0</version>

</dependency>

Sample Code:-

public class Test1 {
 private WebDriver driver;
 @BeforeClass
 public void setUp() {
 WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
 driver = new ChromeDriver();
 }
 @Test
 public void Mytest() {
 driver.get("https://www.google.com");
 }
 @AfterClass
 public void tearDown() {
 if(driver!=null)
 driver.quit();
 }


}

Note:- Here we are not passing browser driver location where we usually put the all drivers in project directory.

e.g:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", System.getProperty("user.dir") + "\\Drivers\\chromedriver.exe");

Instead we using "setup()" function of webdriver-manager

Similarly  we can call other browsers.

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
WebDriverManager.firefoxdriver().setup();
WebDriverManager.operadriver().setup();
WebDriverManager.phantomjs().setup();
WebDriverManager.edgedriver().setup();
WebDriverManager.iedriver().setup();

If you wanted to use any specific version of browser then simply use "version()" function.

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().version("2.26").setup();

Thanks,

Sanket

[Mark Collin]

Here's another option:

https://github.com/Ardesco/selenium-standalone-server-plugin

[Vimal Kumar]

Sanket, 

Actually i have added maven dependency in pom xml and when trying running the script, im getting below error.  (In fact, we are not using SLF4j Logger. we have used log4j logger in the framework)

SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".

SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation

SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.

Apr 08, 2019 3:05:17 PM java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences <init>

WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) returned error code 5.

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.http.client.protocol.RequestAddCookies).

log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.

log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.

[Mark Collin]

That’s a warning, not an error.

Don’t worry about it

[Vimal Kumar]

Mark,

Below is the actual error. 

SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".

SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation

SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.

Apr 08, 2019 4:07:00 PM java.util.prefs.WindowsPreferences <init>

WARNING: Could not open/create prefs root node Software\JavaSoft\Prefs at root 0x80000002. Windows RegCreateKeyEx(...) returned error code 5.

log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.http.client.protocol.RequestAddCookies).

log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.

log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for more info.

FAILED CONFIGURATION: @BeforeClass setUp

io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManagerException: org.apache.http.conn.HttpHostConnectException: Connect to npm.taobao.org:80 [npm.taobao.org/114.55.80.225] failed: Connection timed out: connect

Thanks,

Vimal

[Mark Collin]

Looks like the package it’s referencing no longer exists

https://npm.taobao.org/package/114.55.80.225

I’d raise a bug with the maintainer (check you are using the latest version first)

[Vimal Kumar]

Mark, 

Not sure which latest version you are referring. i dont have much idea about it, 

i have used this one which is latest.

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.github.bonigarcia/webdrivermanager -->

<dependency>

    <groupId>io.github.bonigarcia</groupId>

    <artifactId>webdrivermanager</artifactId>

    <version>3.4.0</version>

</dependency>

I have tried even lower version, but pom.xml itself giving error (Failed to read artifact descriptor for io.gitub.nonigarcia:webdrivermanager.jar )

[Mark Collin]

It looks like you are using the latest version, I'm not sure why it's trying to pull down something that doesn't seem to exist.  I would raise an issue at https://github.com/bonigarcia/webdrivermanager/issues

Of course you can give this a go instead and see if it works for you ;) :

https://github.com/Ardesco/selenium-standalone-server-plugin

[Vimal Kumar]

Hi Sanket,

Using WebDriver Manager, trying to star hub using selenium java

 need to launch the Selenium Hub and Node via direct a Java Program, I saw examples online for launching it via GridLauncherV3 from Selenium. 

(already imported all required library)

import io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager;

public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {

        WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();

        GridLauncherV3.main(new String[] { "-role", "node", "-hub", "http://localhost:4444/grid/register", "-browser",

                "browserName=chrome", "-port", "5555" });

    }

But getting below error.

11:29:55.499 INFO [GridLauncherV3.parse] - Selenium server version: 3.141.59, revision: e82be7d358

11:29:55.704 INFO [GridLauncherV3.lambda$buildLaunchers$7] - Launching a Selenium Grid node on port 5555

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/servlet/http/HttpServlet

at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763)

at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)

at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467)

at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73)

at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368)

at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)

at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:349)

at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)

at org.openqa.grid.internal.utils.SelfRegisteringRemote.<init>(SelfRegisteringRemote.java:83)

at org.openqa.grid.internal.utils.SelfRegisteringRemote.<init>(SelfRegisteringRemote.java:72)

at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncherV3.lambda$buildLaunchers$7(GridLauncherV3.java:281)

at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncherV3.lambda$launch$0(GridLauncherV3.java:86)

at java.util.Optional.map(Optional.java:215)

at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncherV3.launch(GridLauncherV3.java:86)

at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncherV3.main(GridLauncherV3.java:70)

at Demo.StartHub.main(StartHub.java:24)

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet

at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)