W3C WebDriver protocol support

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W3C WebDriver protocol support

OndraM opened this issue 8 years ago · 47 comments

This is an issue to plan and track progress of implementing W3C WebDriver protocol into php-webdriver.

Currently, only legacy JsonWire (aka OSS) protocol is supported by php-webdriver. Selenium server 3.x translates the protocol if needed for the remote end (browser). However not everything is translated (like actions()), making some of the features not working with remote ends supporting only the W3C protocol (which is currently only GeckoDriver for Firefox 48+).

Since Selenium 3.5 the translation to old protocol is disabled by default. It still could be reenabled by starting the server like java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.5.3.jar -enablePassThrough false, but this is only partial and temporary solution/workaround.

For Docker 🐳 users: use SE_OPTS environment variable to pass the enablePassThrough option to Selenium server. Ie. add -e "SE_OPTS=-enablePassThrough false" to docker run command.

The work would require eg.:

add some more functional tests, to make sure we don't breake the old protocol while doing the necessary refactoring
prepare handshake to detect whether the remote end is speaking JsonWire or W3C dialect (we need this to support the old browsers etc.)
define common interface for Json and W3C protocol
convert current implementation to use this interface
implement adapter for the W3C protocol
implement GeckodriverService or something like that to start geckodriver locally
...

Resources

JsonWireProtocol vs. W3C WebDriver
ProtocolHandshake in java bindings
Handshake and capabilities resolving in python bindings

Answer 1 · 2017-09-09T00:23:30.000Z

I started working on https://github.com/facebook/php-webdriver/wiki/JsonWireProtocol-vs.-W3C-WebDriver . I'd like to summarize there the key protocol differences before we start actually implementing them in the code.

Any help with this overview document will be much appreciated!

Answer 2 · 2017-10-03T12:57:28.000Z

Spec also contains changes about the JSON returned when finding an element.
The key ELEMENT is no longer used for referencing an element so we have an undefined index in RemoteWebDriver.php line 178. See this issue on selenium for more details.

Here is an example of the JSON returned by IEDriverServer (which now implements the spec in its latest version, 3.6):
{"state":"success","sessionId":null,"hCode":1164912850,"value":{"element-6066-11e4-a52e-4f735466cecf":"a1c4646c-8300-49f2-84b3-182911dc3eb6"},"class":"org.openqa.selenium.remote.Response","status":0}

Answer 3 · 2017-10-25T13:36:22.000Z

It would be great if the docs were updated to warn people about this and potentially save them a couple hours of pain. Are you interested in a PR to this effect?

Answer 4 · 2017-10-25T13:53:26.000Z

@davidmintz I've recently added note about passThourghMode to readme. However we can do more, for sure :). What is on your mind?

I'm also hoping to have some time for the issue itself during November...

Answer 5 · 2017-10-25T15:15:59.000Z

@OndraM sorry, I guess I missed that in the README, but I read your discussion about -enablePassThrough false, and tried it, but I am still exploding when I try to sendKeys(), with
Facebook\WebDriver\Exception\UnrecognizedExceptionException: Expected [object Undefined] undefined to be a string and I 'm unclear whether this rooted in the same issue as the undefined 'ELEMENT" index, or something else.

I do know it's making me crazy and I would love to help, just don't know if I have what it takes in terms of knowledge.

At the moment the only workaround that works for me is to use a very dated toolchain: Selenium 2.44 with Firefox 35. With the current versions of everything plus Chrome, I get "chrome is unreachable" and I've been all over the map trying to solve that one.

Answer 6 · 2017-12-28T06:01:11.000Z

Note for Docker users: Selenium parameters are passed through SE_OPTS env variable. i.e, you need to add -e "SE_OPTS=-enablePassThrough false" to docker run command

Answer 7 · 2018-01-12T13:46:50.000Z

Hi @OndraM ! Happy new year ;)

Any news on this issue ? I've found this Github repo which is based on an old version of this project and which implements the W3C protocol (at least it says so). Maybe it could help !

Answer 8 · 2018-02-13T13:24:12.000Z

For selenium-server-standalone version > 3.9.1: the option enablePassThrough doesn't work, just switch to version 3.8.1 to use this workaround for firefox

Answer 9 · 2018-02-17T18:16:03.000Z

Hi everyone, I'm aware of the situation, including the fact you cannot effectively use Selenium 3.9.0+ with remote ends supporting only the new W3C protocol (especially Firefox), due to removal of the enablePassThrough - you must stick with the previous version for the time being. Sorry for this! However those remote ends, which sill supports the old protocol (like Chrome) still DO work perfectly.

I also hope I will be able to share some more information about W3C protocol support quite soon. I know the missing support may be limiting for you now (but also workaround exists - see previous messages), but please hang tight :).

Answer 10 · 2018-02-25T17:28:08.000Z

Sorry, my previous statement was not accurate - you only cannot use Selenium 3.9 with remote ends supporting only the new W3C protocol (especially Firefox), because Selenium Server now won't do the translation to the new protocol. But those remote ends, which sill supports the old protocol (like Chrome) still DO work perfectly.

Answer 11 · 2018-03-30T10:05:51.000Z

Hi @OndraM ,

Do we have any ETA for this task?

Answer 12 · 2018-05-28T12:44:28.000Z

Hi everyone,
I recently downloaded v 3.12 and the problems still persist (with Firefox).
Can someone confirm that for me? Many thanks!

Answer 13 · 2018-05-29T15:51:13.000Z

Hello everyone , Same issue for me in v3.12.0
any estimate on implementing JsonWire protocol? all development stopped with phpwebdriver due to this :(

Answer 14 · 2018-07-19T20:17:13.000Z

yet another bump, pretty annoying issue. For anyone wanting a quick link to a version of selenium that works: https://selenium-release.storage.googleapis.com/index.html?path=3.8/

As of the time of this writing, it seems to work with me on Ubuntu Linux, FF version 61.0.1 (with the Selenium server 3.8.1)

Answer 15 · 2018-07-20T12:03:14.000Z

Latest version which works for me is still 2.53.1 - I get different errors with 3.8 (when filling a field) or 3.13 (can't open any page).

Answer 16 · 2018-09-08T12:59:59.000Z

From : https://www.w3.org/TR/webdriver/

Implementation of W3 by chrome : https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/docs/chromedriver_status.md

Implementation of W3 by Microsoft (Edge) : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/webdriver#commands

Implementation of W3 by Apple (Safari) : https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/macos_webdriver_commands_for_safari_12_and_later

Implementation of JsonWire by Apple (Safari) : https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/macos_webdriver_commands_for_safari_11_1_and_earlier

Below you will find:

List of W3 commands
List of commands by constant name with url

Implemented	Method	URI Template	Command
✔️	POST	/session	New Session
✔️	DELETE	/session/{session id}	Delete Session
❌	GET	/status	Status
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/timeouts	Get Timeouts
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/timeouts	Set Timeouts
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/url	Navigate To
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/url	Get Current URL
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/back	Back
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/forward	Forward
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/refresh	Refresh
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/title	Get Title
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/window	Get Window Handle
✔️	DELETE	/session/{session id}/window	Close Window
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/window	Switch To Window
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/window/handles	Get Window Handles
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/frame	Switch To Frame
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/frame/parent	Switch To Parent Frame
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/window/rect	Get Window Rect
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/window/rect	Set Window Rect
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/window/maximize	Maximize Window
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/window/minimize	Minimize Window
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/window/fullscreen	Fullscreen Window
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/element/active	Get Active Element
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/element	Find Element
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/elements	Find Elements
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/element	Find Element From Element
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/elements	Find Elements From Element
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/selected	Is Element Selected
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/attribute/{name}	Get Element Attribute
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/property/{name}	Get Element Property
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/css/{property name}	Get Element CSS Value
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/text	Get Element Text
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/name	Get Element Tag Name
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/rect	Get Element Rect
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/enabled	Is Element Enabled
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/click	Element Click
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/clear	Element Clear
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/value	Element Send Keys
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/source	Get Page Source
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/execute/sync	Execute Script
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/execute/async	Execute Async Script
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/cookie	Get All Cookies
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/cookie/{name}	Get Named Cookie
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/cookie	Add Cookie
✔️	DELETE	/session/{session id}/cookie/{name}	Delete Cookie
✔️	DELETE	/session/{session id}/cookie	Delete All Cookies
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/actions	Perform Actions
❌	DELETE	/session/{session id}/actions	Release Actions
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/alert/dismiss	Dismiss Alert
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/alert/accept	Accept Alert
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/alert/text	Get Alert Text
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/alert/text	Send Alert Text
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/screenshot	Take Screenshot
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/screenshot	Take Element Screenshot

W3 compatible	Method	URI Template	Constant
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/cookie	GET_ALL_COOKIES
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/cookie	ADD_COOKIE
✔️	DELETE	/session/{session id}/cookie	DELETE_ALL_COOKIES
✔️	DELETE	/session/{session id}/cookie/{name}	DELETE_COOKIE
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/element	FIND_ELEMENT
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/elements	FIND_ELEMENTS
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/clear	CLEAR_ELEMENT
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/click	CLICK_ELEMENT
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/equals/:other	ELEMENT_EQUALS
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/element	FIND_CHILD_ELEMENT
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/elements	FIND_CHILD_ELEMENTS
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/element/active	GET_ACTIVE_ELEMENT
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/attribute/{name}	GET_ELEMENT_ATTRIBUTE
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/css/{property name}	GET_ELEMENT_VALUE_OF_CSS_PROPERTY
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/location	GET_ELEMENT_LOCATION
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/location_in_view	GET_ELEMENT_LOCATION_ONCE_SCROLLED_INTO_VIEW
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/size	GET_ELEMENT_SIZE
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/name	GET_ELEMENT_TAG_NAME
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/text	GET_ELEMENT_TEXT
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/displayed	IS_ELEMENT_DISPLAYED
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/enabled	IS_ELEMENT_ENABLED
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/selected	IS_ELEMENT_SELECTED
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/value	SEND_KEYS_TO_ELEMENT
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/element/{element id}/submit	SUBMIT_ELEMENT
✔️	DELETE	/session/{session id}/window	CLOSE
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/window	SWITCH_TO_WINDOW
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/window_handle	GET_CURRENT_WINDOW_HANDLE
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/window_handles	GET_WINDOW_HANDLES
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/window/{windowHandle}/position	GET_WINDOW_POSITION
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/window/{windowHandle}/size	GET_WINDOW_SIZE
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/window/{windowHandle}/maximize	MAXIMIZE_WINDOW
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/window/{windowHandle}/position	SET_WINDOW_POSITION
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/window/{windowHandle}/size	SET_WINDOW_SIZE
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/accept_alert	ACCEPT_ALERT
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/dismiss_alert	DISMISS_ALERT
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/alert_text	GET_ALERT_TEXT
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/alert_text	SET_ALERT_VALUE
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/execute	EXECUTE_SCRIPT
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/execute_async	EXECUTE_ASYNC_SCRIPT
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/frame	SWITCH_TO_FRAME
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/url	GET
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/url	GET_CURRENT_URL
❌	GET	/sessions	GET_ALL_SESSIONS
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/log/types	GET_AVAILABLE_LOG_TYPES
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/log	GET_LOG
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/source	GET_PAGE_SOURCE
❌	GET	/session/{session id}/orientation	GET_SCREEN_ORIENTATION
❌	GET	/session/{session id}	GET_CAPABILITIES
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/title	GET_TITLE
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/back	GO_BACK
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/forward	GO_FORWARD
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/buttondown	MOUSE_DOWN
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/buttonup	MOUSE_UP
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/click	CLICK
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/doubleclick	DOUBLE_CLICK
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/moveto	MOVE_TO
✔️	POST	/session	NEW_SESSION
✔️	DELETE	/session/{session id}	QUIT
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/refresh	REFRESH
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/file	UPLOAD_FILE
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/keys	SEND_KEYS_TO_ACTIVE_ELEMENT
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/timeouts/implicit_wait	IMPLICITLY_WAIT
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/orientation	SET_SCREEN_ORIENTATION
✔️	POST	/session/{session id}/timeouts	SET_TIMEOUT
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/timeouts/async_script	SET_SCRIPT_TIMEOUT
✔️	GET	/session/{session id}/screenshot	SCREENSHOT
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/touch/click	TOUCH_SINGLE_TAP
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/touch/down	TOUCH_DOWN
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/touch/doubleclick	TOUCH_DOUBLE_TAP
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/touch/flick	TOUCH_FLICK
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/touch/longclick	TOUCH_LONG_PRESS
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/touch/move	TOUCH_MOVE
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/touch/scroll	TOUCH_SCROLL
❌	POST	/session/{session id}/touch/up	TOUCH_UP

Answer 17 · 2018-09-19T07:04:03.000Z

Hi, here is my PR #599 with W3C support. It's not perfect but works with Firefox 60.x (https://travis-ci.org/facebook/php-webdriver/jobs/430392005) and latest Chrome. I don't know why it fails in SauceLabs, but fell free to try it and test it on your own.

Answer 18 · 2018-11-12T09:42:22.000Z

This issue still persists for selenium 3.14. Getting the same console error while running the script.

Answer 19 · 2018-12-29T21:49:34.000Z

These changes would be very useful to me to get browser testing working in selenium/os x. I've checked out this pull request and it solves the w3c/enablePassthrough errors I was experiencing. Is there anything I can do to contribute? Is there a fork of php-webdriver that someone has created that has these features that I can install with composer in the meantime?

Answer 20 · 2019-01-25T10:54:31.000Z

Still not working firefox with Selenium 3.141.59

Answer 21 · 2019-01-28T14:03:28.000Z

Stopped working php-webdriver on Safari
Says [PHPUnit\Framework\Exception] Undefined index: ELEMENT on command $I->fillField $I->waitForText and $I->waitForElement

About a two weeks ago this commands working
Can you fix it?)
Thanks )

Answer 22 · 2019-02-04T00:45:30.000Z

Looks like they dropped the legacy ELEMENT index recently:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1400233

The ELEMENT index was a legacy index and dropped in FF 63.0.

Answer 23 · 2019-02-05T04:23:47.000Z

Hi folks,

Like others, I'm wondering what the go is with this project and support for Selenium3.

Is there an ETA for when this set of changes will land, or are we still stuck testing Firefox with ancient versions of Selenium and Firefox?
Is there anything we can do to help?
Is this just waiting for the spec to be finalised?
Is there an alternative project which has implemented the spec in its current form?

Thanks

Answer 24 · 2019-06-05T09:09:37.000Z

@OndraM Is this project still alive?

Is there an alternative project which has implemented the spec in its current form?

I am asking because we're currently relying on the webdriver in conjunction with Codeception (PHP) and we need to make a decision if we should finally move over to CodeceptJS for acceptance tests.

Answer 25 · 2019-06-05T15:39:15.000Z

Looks like they dropped the legacy ELEMENT index recently:
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1400233

The ELEMENT index was a legacy index and dropped in FF 63.0.

Same issue on IE11 with the IEDriver.

Answer 26 · 2019-06-06T13:39:52.000Z

Looks like they dropped the legacy ELEMENT index recently:
bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1400233
The ELEMENT index was a legacy index and dropped in FF 63.0.

Same issue on IE11 with the IEDriver.

I naively guess a similar (or the same?) problem with Chrome v75 (via https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/docker-selenium/releases/tag/3.141.59-palladium; the previous releases with Chrome and ChromeDriver v74 still worked), because while according to https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/chromedriver/downloads

The most noticeable change is ChromeDriver now runs in W3C standard compliant mode by default

... sounds like everything should still work when switching to non-W3C mode (please especially note the Detected dialect: OSS output instead of default Detected dialect: W3C):

13:20:00.890 INFO [ActiveSessionFactory.apply] - Capabilities are: {
  "browserName": "chrome",
  "goog:chromeOptions": {
    "args": [
      "--headless",
      "--disable-gpu",
      "--window-size=1920x1200"
    ],
    "w3c": false
  }
}
13:20:00.890 INFO [ActiveSessionFactory.lambda$apply$11] - Matched factory org.openqa.selenium.grid.session.remote.ServicedSession$Factory (provider: org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService)
Starting ChromeDriver 75.0.3770.8 (681f24ea911fe754973dda2fdc6d2a2e159dd300-refs/branch-heads/3770@{#40}) on port 22008
Only local connections are allowed.
Please protect ports used by ChromeDriver and related test frameworks to prevent access by malicious code.
[1559827200.907][SEVERE]: bind() failed: Cannot assign requested address (99)
13:20:01.113 INFO [ProtocolHandshake.createSession] - Detected dialect: OSS
13:20:01.161 INFO [RemoteSession$Factory.lambda$performHandshake$0] - Started new session 55234a7ec928b26e1dff81ea0b7cd803 (org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService)
13:20:16.955 INFO [ActiveSessions$1.onStop] - Removing session 55234a7ec928b26e1dff81ea0b7cd803 (org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService)

... the (Codeception v2.5.6) test then fails with Undefined index: ELEMENT (like in e.g. #492 or #576) => :-o or ;-(

Please mind that there is an UPDATE (Correction!) for this comment below: #469 (comment)

Answer 27 · 2019-06-06T14:01:01.000Z

I am currently testing an updated version of this repo which merges the existing W3C branch, fixes chrome, mouse release, and a few other bits. Not sure if we’ll be forking or just maintaining an alias repository but I’ll be pushing my changes in the next few days. It does seem that this project and Instaclick are both dead, but if someone would announce officially it would really help in making some decisions for the rest of us.

Answer 28 · 2019-06-06T14:19:17.000Z

@andrewnicols thanks for your extremely fast and promising response => looking forward very much indeed...

Answer 29 · 2019-06-06T14:31:52.000Z

I’m not sure if we’ll be able to maintain a fork, but if we can get to a point where someone, or some group of people, can... Note: chromedriver 75 only made w3c compliance mode on by default. You can still pass w3c: false as a required capability to get legacy behaviour I think.

Answer 30 · 2019-06-06T15:43:25.000Z

@andrewnicols Oops, my comment #469 (comment) was not correct, sorry => see correction at the bottom

Ad "maintain a fork": yeah, I hope so; it looks as if there is enough demand and therefore potentially a group of interested devs around...

Ad "w3c: false for legacy mode" and correction of my comment: yes, that is what I actually tried, but it did not help me in my simple Codeception test for cookie policy (cookie policy banner ok button click hides the cookie policy banner):

when using default W3C protocol, then the Codeception (v2.5.6) test fails with Undefined index: ELEMENT (like in e.g. #492 or #576), in waitForElement() operation
when using legacy protocol, then the test succeeds for waitForElement() operation, which is followed by a seemingly also successful click() operation, but fails in the waitForElementNotVisible() operation by running into the default 10s timeout (when waiting for the hiding of the element due to the mouse click -- as if the click did not really happen or whatever)
- frankly I am not sure why that happens, or if that could be actually another unrelated problem: it used to work ever since (that is at least since Chrome v70)
  - Update: It also/still works with Chrome v75, when using ChromeDriver v74!
  - Update#2: Seemingly Codeception's click() operation is translated into clickElement WebDriver command that is seemingly no more supported by ChromeDriver v75 (when using ChromeDriver in standalone mode without Selenium then the debug log just does not contain the expected COMMAND ClickElement output, so I guess it is silently ignored on arrival)!?
    - When using Codeception's clickWithLeftMouseButton() operation instead, it works again, as that is translated into (1) mouseMoveTo WebDriver command followed by (2) mouseClick WebDriver command -- that seemingly both are still supported...

Answer 31 · 2019-06-08T15:31:32.000Z

Took me longer than I had hoped, but I've gotten to a point where most things are working in https://github.com/andrewnicols/php-webdriver/tree/fixtheworld

I still have a list of things not yet working (GET_ELEMENT_LOCATION_ONCE_SCROLLED_INTO_VIEW is not available in W3C Webdriver for example) and I discovered that the window API has changed (now fixed). I need to go through the complete list of commands and check them off against the spec.

Answer 32 · 2019-06-08T23:17:25.000Z

Hi everyone, sorry for not moving this issue forward in recent months :-(.

About the current issue with Chrome 75 - it enables W3C protocol by default. Unfortunately just disabling it wasn't enough to make it working again, as this change in Chromedriver introduced some bugs (@reinholdfuereder - this is why the click() command etc. didn't work). However I was able to find a workaround for the Chromedriver bug - see #640 . Because this issue affects lots of people and other projects (eg. laravel/dusk#651), the plan is to release this change ASAP as a new version.

And about future and full implementation of the W3C protocol. This project is definitely not dead. In next days, I will write down some ideas about future of the project and a ways how to get the W3C protocol implemented soon.

It's not secret this project requires some more maintainers to help with the W3C implementation and push it forward. I'm quite impressed by recent work of @andrewnicols on top of the #560 by @dunglas, great work! If you are interested, it would be great if I can include you and maybe others in this effort 🙏 .

Answer 33 · 2019-06-09T18:40:19.000Z

I'm interested in working with @andrewnicols and you to merge W3C support as soon as possible. It's very important for Symfony / Panther. Let me know how I can help.
I'm also ok to help maintaining this lib.

Answer 34 · 2019-06-10T15:54:21.000Z

Immediate fix for Chrome 75 has been released as part of php-webdriver 1.7.0.

Answer 35 · 2019-06-17T00:37:32.000Z

Hi @OndraM,

I'm keen to help with this effort, and to share maintenance of the project.

Any chance you can share your plans and ideas for the future of the project?

Answer 36 · 2019-06-21T14:37:40.000Z

Hey @OndraM ;

I'm interested of getting involved in this project.
Let me know how can I help.

Answer 37 · 2019-07-17T00:39:45.000Z

Hi @OndraM, is there any chance that we can get the ball rolling again with this project?

We're all stuck in the dark ages testing with Firefox 47.0.1 and there are people like @dunglas (Symfony/Panther) and myself (Moodle) who would love to help get things moving.

Answer 38 · 2019-07-29T03:48:16.000Z

Hi @OndraM, pinging again. We really need to do something with this project to make it compatible with W3C.

Answer 39 · 2019-08-05T00:54:08.000Z

Hi again, I'm so sorry for the delays 😞 and really unhappy with not pushing this forward recently, but my time resources are limited and I needed to spend lot of work on other job-stuff.

But I've prepared request for comments for php-webdriver 2.0 - see #657 , and I invite everyone interested to check it out and comment. So that once I'm in a short while back from upcoming vacation, we can finally start the hard work. Thanks everyone!

Answer 40 · 2019-11-12T23:24:49.000Z

📢 Current status update:

The experimental W3C protocol support (#560) was finally merged to community branch! Thanks @dunglas and others involved! 💯 💯 💯
If remote browser is capable of W3C protocol, it will now be automatically used instead of the old OSS JsonWireProtocol. This means eg. Chromedriver will now by default use W3C protocol. (This could still be disabled if you need to - see #674 (comment) )
This also means Geckodriver (ie. any new Firefox) could now be used! 🦊
Even though library code coverage is far from being ideal, we have passing Travis test builds for various browsers and protocol combinations: Latest Chrome with JsonWire protocol, with W3C protocol, via Selenium server, directly via chromedriver; Firefox 45/47 using JsonWire protocol, latest Firefox 67 using W3C protocol directly via Geckodriver binary and also via Selenium server... So lets hope we won't break much things 🍀 .

What needs to be mentioned again - the W3C protocol support is experimental (and will remain experimental in upcoming php-webdriver 1.8). Some parts (like capabilities) are not yet implemented to fully conform W3C WebDriver protocol. However most of the stuff should work.

What will be the process now:

Please test! You can easily update to the development version for the upcoming 1.8 release by changing dependency in your composer.json like this:

    "require": {
        "php-webdriver/webdriver": "^1.8@dev"
    }

and running composer update.
(Or you can just run composer require php-webdriver/webdriver:^1.8@dev).

If you encounter any issues, please report them!
This experimental W3C support will be released as part of php-webdriver 1.8, what should hopefully happen soon (if nothing bad happens).
Further steps towards future php-webdriver 2.0 are discussed in #657 . Also full support (not experimental) of W3C WebDriver will be part of php-webdriver 2.0.

🔥 🔥 🔥

Answer 41 · 2019-11-18T11:41:05.000Z

The community branch now contains further W3C protocol-related improvements:

Capabilities are converted to W3C compatible ones
Some window-realted commands (set size, maximize etc.) were added to those supported in W3C protocol mode

🔔 Everyone please test the community branch and report issues!
composer require php-webdriver/webdriver:^1.8@dev

Answer 42 · 2019-12-23T16:38:26.000Z

Hi @OndraM,

I tried using the community branch (facebook/webdriver:^1.8@dev) for running my tests on firefox latest version and I am able to open the firefox, load the page but the elements are not found. The same test works fine on chrome lastest version. Could you please help me in running the tests on latest firefox?

Platform: Linux
Firefox version: 71.0 (64-bit)
Selenium standalone server: 3.141.59
Gecko driver version: v0.24.0
PHP version: PHP 7.3.12 (cli)

behat.yml:

extensions:
   Behat\MinkExtension:
     default_session:  selenium2
     base_url: 'https://login.yahoo.com/'
     browser_name: firefox
     selenium2:
       capabilities:
         browser: firefox
         marionette: true
         version: ''

Composer.json:

"require": {
   "emuse/behat-html-formatter": "dev-master as 0.1.99",
   "behat/behat": "^3.4",
   "behat/mink-extension": "2.3.1",
   "behat/mink-selenium2-driver": "1.3.1",
   "phpunit/phpunit": "~7.1",
   "phpunit/phpunit-selenium": "~7.0",
   "monolog/monolog": "^1.22",
   "league/csv": "^8.2",
   "guzzlehttp/guzzle": "^6.3",
   "fzaninotto/faker": "@stable",
   "facebook/webdriver": "^1.8@dev",
   "php": "7.3.12"
 },

Starting selenium standalone server and gecko driver:

java -jar -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver=geckodriver selenium-server-standalone-3.141.59.jar

Test Feature:

  @testfirefox
  Scenario: Open yahoo mail and click forgot password
    When User launch Application
    And User click forgot password link

Step definition for User click forgot password link

  $this->wait(10);
  print_r($this->getSession()->getDriver()->click("//a[@id='mbr-forgot-link']"));
  $this->wait(10);

Test Output Error

(Element not found with xpath, //a[@id='mbr-forgot-link'] )

Note:

When I try to give
print_r($this->getSession()->getPage()->getContent());
I am getting the content.
But when I try to give
print_r($this->getSession()->getDriver()->getHtml("//html"));
I am getting the error (Element not found with xpath, //html )

Selenium Log:

 16:28:04.817 INFO [ActiveSessionFactory.apply] - Capabilities are: {
  "browser": "firefox",
  "browserName": "firefox",
  "ignoreZoomSetting": false,
  "marionette": true,
  "name": "Behat feature suite",
  "tags": [
    "LT00860",
    "PHP 7.3.12"
  ],
  "version": ""
}
16:28:04.818 INFO [ActiveSessionFactory.lambda$apply$11] - Matched factory org.openqa.selenium.grid.session.remote.ServicedSession$Factory (provider: org.openqa.selenium.firefox.GeckoDriverService)
1577118485007	mozrunner::runner	INFO	Running command: "/usr/bin/firefox" "-marionette" "-foreground" "-no-remote" "-profile" "/tmp/rust_mozprofileeS6Xv9"
1577118485605	addons.webextension.screenshots@mozilla.org	WARN	Loading extension 'screenshots@mozilla.org': Reading manifest: Invalid extension permission: mozillaAddons
1577118485605	addons.webextension.screenshots@mozilla.org	WARN	Loading extension 'screenshots@mozilla.org': Reading manifest: Invalid extension permission: telemetry
1577118485605	addons.webextension.screenshots@mozilla.org	WARN	Loading extension 'screenshots@mozilla.org': Reading manifest: Invalid extension permission: resource://pdf.js/
1577118485605	addons.webextension.screenshots@mozilla.org	WARN	Loading extension 'screenshots@mozilla.org': Reading manifest: Invalid extension permission: about:reader*
1577118487770	Marionette	INFO	Listening on port 39591
16:28:07.880 INFO [ProtocolHandshake.createSession] - Detected dialect: W3C
16:28:07.931 INFO [RemoteSession$Factory.lambda$performHandshake$0] - Started new session 761450de-03e1-4b4a-a62c-8ae1144b57a5 (org.openqa.selenium.firefox.GeckoDriverService)
1577118498783	Marionette	INFO	Stopped listening on port 39591
16:28:20.497 INFO [ActiveSessions$1.onStop] - Removing session 761450de-03e1-4b4a-a62c-8ae1144b57a5 (org.openqa.selenium.firefox.GeckoDriverService)

Answer 43 · 2019-12-24T11:01:24.000Z

@sathyas123 Even though you have installed php-webdriver, from what I understand, you are using mink-selenium2-driver - that means you don't actually use this library in your tests, as Behat uses its own, outdated Selenium JsonWire protocol implementation, see minkphp/MinkSelenium2Driver#293

However please report any further issues as a new standalone ticket here on Github, so that this thread don't get too flooded.

Answer 44 · 2020-01-06T00:25:05.000Z

@OndraM, do you think that we may be able to release 1.8.0 shortly? I think we're nearly up to full compliance with the W3C spec (just a couple of missing commands which mostly have pull requests). Do you have a timeframe in mind?

Answer 45 · 2020-01-07T10:45:00.000Z

No exact timeframe, but I've created 1.8.0 milestone to track reamining issues. There is just a few of them, so it should not take long. And I don't think we necessarily need full W3C compliance, this would be aim of 2.0. We just need "good enough" implementation in 1.8 :-).

Answer 46 · 2020-01-20T06:32:13.000Z

📢 One more announcement for everyone watching this issue and waiting for W3C support.

As we move towards release 1.8.0, we successfully transferred the repository from Facebook (as explained in #730) and it is now available under new name. So in order to get any future updates of the package, you must update its name in require section of your composer.json file like this:

"require": {
-    "facebook/webdriver": "(version you use)",
+    "php-webdriver/webdriver": "(version you use)",
}

Answer 47 · 2020-02-10T15:48:41.000Z

🎉 Version 1.8.0 was released!

Thanks to all 14 community contributors who made this possible (in 120 commits)! 🥇 ❤️

🆕 Have look at complete changelog.

Version 1.8.0 includes experimental support of W3C WebDriver protocol, and it will be used by default if your browser supports it (recommended is latest Chrome/Firefox). If you encounter any issues with the W3C protocol, you can still explicitly disable the protocol and use the legacy "JsonWire OSS protocol", but please also report the issue here on GitHub.

Also don't forget to rename the library in your composer.json:

"require": {
-    "facebook/webdriver": "...",
+    "php-webdriver/webdriver": "^1.8.0",
}

before you run composer update.

If you use Selenium standalone server, make sure to use the latest version (either stable 3.141.59 or you can try alpha version of Selenium 4) and remove no longer needed enablePassThrough workaround you might used previously.

Happy testing!