Encountering issues with creating a session in Selenium/webdriver while utilizing Safari 12

Ever since making the update to Safari 12, my automated scripts have been encountering a new error:

SessionNotCreatedError: Request body does not contain required parameter 'capabilities'.

(Interestingly, this error is exclusive to Safari and doesn't manifest in other browsers).

In my javascript webdriver setup, I specify the capabilities with key value pairs like so:

var capabs = {
       'browserName' : 'Safari',
       'version' : '12.0'
    }
    browserUnderTest = new webdriver.Builder().
    withCapabilities(capabs)    
    .forBrowser('safari')
    .build();

I suspect the issue lies within the safari.js file itself, but I lack the expertise to pinpoint the exact problem. Below is the complete error message for reference:

SessionNotCreatedError: Request body does not contain required parameter 'capabilities'.
    at Object.throwDecodedError (/Users/qualit/Documents/autotests/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:514:15)
    at parseHttpResponse (/Users/qualit/Documents/autotests/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:519:13)
    at doSend.then.response (/Users/qualit/Documents/autotests/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:441:30)
    at <anonymous>
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:188:7)
From: Task: WebDriver.createSession()
    at Function.createSession (/Users/qualit/Documents/autotests/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver.js:769:24)
    at Function.createSession (/Users/qualit/Documents/autotests/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/safari.js:253:41)
    at createDriver (/Users/qualit/Documents/autotests/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/index.js:170:33)
    at Builder.build (/Users/qualit/Documents/autotests/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/index.js:660:16)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/qualit/Documents/autotests/K8_autotest.js:354:6)
    at Module._compile (module.js:643:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:654:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:556:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:499:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:491:3)

If anyone has insights or solutions to resolve this issue, please feel free to share!

javascriptselenium-webdrivernpmsafariwebdriver

Answer №1

The reason for this issue occurring is due to Safari 12 implementing a new W3C webdriver protocol (source) that seems to be incompatible with the latest stable selenium-webdriver package (v3.6).

To resolve this, you can use the --legacy flag with safaridriver. This can be achieved on the command line by running: /usr/bin/safaridriver --legacy

If you are using Node.js, you can set the flag on the driver in your program like this:

const webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');
const safari = require('selenium-webdriver/safari');

new webdriver.Builder()
    .usingServer(await new safari.ServiceBuilder().addArguments('--legacy').build().start())
    .forBrowser('safari')
    .build();

For more information about the ServiceBuilder API, refer to https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/javascript/module/selenium-webdriver/safari_exports_ServiceBuilder.html

There are also GitHub tickets related to this issue:

Answer №2

If you encounter an issue with 'await' while attempting @mjdease's solution mentioned earlier, you can try the following code snippet:

new webdriver.Builder()
    .usingServer(new safari.ServiceBuilder().addArguments('--legacy').build().start())
    .forBrowser('safari')
    .build();

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