DesiredCapabilities is obsolete

JumpIntoTheWater picture JumpIntoTheWater · Dec 18, 2017 · Viewed 10.4k times · Source

I used to have the following code in order to run the driver as different user.

 public static IWebDriver RunIEAsDifferentUser(string User,string Password)
    {

        var capabilitiesInternet = DesiredCapabilities.InternetExplorer();
        capabilitiesInternet.SetCapability("ignoreProtectedModeSettings", true);
        capabilitiesInternet.SetCapability("EnsureCleanSession ", true);
        RunAs("C:\\Exlporer/IEDriverServer.exe", User, Password);
        _webdriverIE = new RemoteWebDriver(new Uri("http://localhost:5555/"), capabilitiesInternet, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(300));
        return _webdriverIE;

    }
    public static void RunAs(string path, string username, string password)
    {
        ProcessStartInfo myProcess = new ProcessStartInfo(path);
        myProcess.UserName = username;
        myProcess.Password = MakeSecureString(password);
        myProcess.UseShellExecute = false;
        myProcess.LoadUserProfile = true;
        myProcess.Verb = "runas";
        myProcess.Domain = "DOM001";
        Process.Start(myProcess);
    }

    public static SecureString MakeSecureString(string text)
    {
        SecureString secure = new SecureString();
        foreach (char c in text)
        {
            secure.AppendChar(c);
        }

        return secure;
    }

The thing is that I'm getting warning :DesiredCapabilities is obsolete and I'm not sure what I have to do in order to keep this working.

The problematic line is : _webdriverIE = new RemoteWebDriver(new Uri("http://localhost:5555/"), capabilitiesInternet, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(300)); I have tried changing it to InternetExplorerOptions caps = new InternetExplorerOptions();. Unfortunately , the RemoteWebDriver only accept Icapabilities now.

Answer

Guy picture Guy · Dec 18, 2017

The solution is at the end of the warning message

For use with the Java remote server or grid, use the ToCapabilites method of the InternetExplorerOptions class.

InternetExplorerOptions options = new InternetExplorerOptions();
options.AddAdditionalCapability("ignoreProtectedModeSettings", true);
options.AddAdditionalCapability("EnsureCleanSession", true);
_webdriverIE = new RemoteWebDriver(new Uri("http://localhost:5555/"), options.ToCapabilities(), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(300));