How to run ghostdriver with Selenium using java

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user650309 picture user650309 · Jan 2, 2013 · Viewed 33.2k times · Source

I want to use phantomJS for some web testing, and I've come across GhostDriver (https://github.com/detro/ghostdriver). I've built it using the instructions in the readme and I can run it on a specified port, but I am not sure how to access the web driver from my java code. To clarify, I've seen this example in ruby:

  caps = {
  :browserName => "phantomjs",
  :platform => "LINUX"
   }

urlhub = "http://key:[email protected]:4444/wd/hub"

client = Selenium::WebDriver::Remote::Http::Default.new
client.timeout = 120

@webdriver = Selenium::WebDriver.for :remote, :url => urlhub, :desired_capabilities => caps, :http_client => client
@webdriver.navigate.to "http://www.google.com/"
puts @webdriver.title
@webdriver.save_screenshot("./screenshot.png")
@webdriver.quit

I'm just not sure how to do the same from java.

Answer

user650309 picture user650309 · Jan 4, 2013

Just to clarify for others who might see this, to run it from java:

DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities();
caps.setCapability(PhantomJSDriverService.PHANTOMJS_EXECUTABLE_PATH_PROPERTY,
                "/Path/to/bin/phantomjs");                  
driver = new PhantomJSDriver(caps);

Then it can be used like a usual WebDriver.

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