Desired Capabilities - The Missing Manual

[vellj123]

@Brandon_Hein

Then either 1.) the desired capabilities you’ve configured are not set correctly,

Ok Im going to go back and retrace my steps

[Chase_Emerick]

Is there anyway to change the preferences inside the Dictionary type at run time?

[potato]

I’m using Chrome 77 and I have the prefs Dictionary in my Desired Capabilities -> Web UI -> Chrome settings. The two properties I have in the dictionary are download.prompt_for_download = false and safebrowsing.enabled = true. Before adding these, Chrome would give me the keep/discard prompt immediately upon clicking the download button. After applying them, the file appears to begin downloading, however, when it gets to 100% it shows the keep/discard prompt instead of finishing.
Am I missing a property in my prefs dictionary?

[Dave_Evers]

My setup: Katalon 6.3.3, Windows 7, Chrome: 79.0.3945.130 (Official Build) (64-bit) (cohort: Stable)

I followed Brandon’s how-to (excellent work, thanks!) but I am not able to dismiss the “Download multiple files” dialog…

My Katalon settings:

Has anyone ever got this to work?

This is my diff result:

Thanks,
Dave

[Brandon_Hein]

Funny you should ask, see my topic about this particular alert here:

How to handle Chrome's 'Download multiple files' alert

While I’m not the first to ask about this, I’ve yet to find any solutions, so curious if anyone has had any luck. This is an age old problem in the chromedriver/selenium community, and the correct approach is constantly changing… When executing a test in Chrome that, at some point, downloads multiple files from an app, the following alert will occur: [image] Making a selection upon seeing this alert is equivalent to configuring the following browser setting manually: Settings > Advanced > Pr…

tl;dr No, there’s no way to handle this, outside of refreshing the page between downloads.

[Dave_Evers]

Hey Brandon,

Thanks for the feed-back

The idea of refresh works for me.

Not elegant but does the trick.

Cheers,
Dave

[Dave_Evers]

Hi Brandon,

Under “Dictionary Property Builder”
Can a GlobalVariable be used in the “download.default_directory” value?
I’ve tried a few variations but no luck so far.

For example I tried the following but it does not work:
download.default_directory= GlobalVariable.DownloadFolder

[Brandon_Hein]

No, this would not work. The arguments given here are just read as Strings, so no method invocation would ever be triggered.

[Dave_Evers]

Thanks for the info Brandon.

Cheers,
Dave

[bionel]

@Brandon_Hein for Step 1, you can try also to simply navigate to chrome://prefs-internals (and refresh the page after the changes).
Should produce the same JSON results, already pretty printed. Save the page as txt or whatever you like and all good for diff-ing.

[Brandon_Hein]

Wow, nice. This would definitely save a couple steps!

[bionel]

I will drop some links here so I can quickly find them later if needed:

List of Chrome driver specific capabilities:

Capabilities & ChromeOptions - ChromeDriver - WebDriver for Chrome

And a comprehensive list of chrome switches (can be set through args capability):
https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/

[jpotrawski]

Do you have a link to list of prefs arguments that can be set? I only found this link, but I don’t think it’s the full list: https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/common/pref_names.cc?view=markup

This StackOverflow answer might have answered my question, although there are still some I cannot see in the list, like profile.default_content_settings.popups or profile.content_settings.exceptions.automatic_downloads.*.setting so I’m still somewhat confused on having the entire list. And also, I wanted more information on preferences like the two I mentioned.

[bionel]

@jpotrawski

Do you have a link to list of prefs arguments that can be set?

from the link i posted above:

prefs dictionary A dictionary with each entry consisting of the name of the preference and its value. These preferences are only applied to the user profile in use. See the ‘Preferences’ file in Chrome’s user data directory for examples.

so I am able to find something like what you may need by navigating to chrome://prefs-internal:

those seems to match with what i can find in the /home/my_user_name/.config/google-chrome/Default/Preferences file on linux (note that this file is huge)

not sure if it is exactly what you need but you can try

[jpotrawski]

Appreciate your answer, but this isn’t exactly what I was looking for. I wanted to see a list of all possible prefs and their descriptions (i.e., what does enabling/disabling a specific preference do).

[Brandon_Hein]

@jpotrawski

Appreciate your answer, but this isn’t exactly what I was looking for

This gave me a nice laugh

This is a very old reply, but w/e, I’ll address it.

1.) Desired capabilities, especially Chrome capabilities, are in constant flux. Trying to maintain an exhaustive list of all capabilities, what they do, and how to set them would be a full time job.
2.) Rather than giving you a fish, we’re teaching you how to fish. This guide will assist you in finding ANY capability you may want to set, present or future.

[Russ_Thomas]

@Brandon_Hein

This is a very old reply, but w/e, I’ll address it.

I needed a machete to fight my way through the cobwebs

Here is the Firefox list – again, can be a little behind current release (I believe). all.js - mozsearch

More discussion (unsure if these are posted up-thread )

firefoxOptions - WebDriver | MDN

ChromeDriver - WebDriver for Chrome - Capabilities & ChromeOptions

[joana.pedroso]

Hello,

I followed this strategy to try to disable the cache and for some reason it’s not working.

What I want is that when a new session of the browser opens, the cache is disabled. Manually it’s equivalent to opening the Devtools and checking the box “disable cache” in the Network tab:

I did that manually, downloaded the preferences json file and verified this:

So I added that to my code:

Map prefs = [(‘intl.accept_languages’) : GlobalVariable.locale,
“download.default_directory”: System.getProperty(“user.home”) + File.separator + “Downloads” + File.separator,
“download.directory_upgrade”: true,
“download.prompt_for_download”: false,
“plugins.always_open_pdf_externally”: true,
“profile.default_content_settings.popups”: 0,
“profile.content_settings.exceptions.automatic_downloads.*.setting”: 1,
**“devtools.preferences.cacheDisabled”: “true”]**
Map <String, Map<String,String>> prefsFF = [(‘prefs’): prefs]
RunConfiguration.setWebDriverPreferencesProperty(“moz:firefoxOptions”, prefsFF)
RunConfiguration.setWebDriverPreferencesProperty(‘prefs’, prefs)

And it doesn’t work. When it opens, the cache is not disabled. I know it’s not disabled because we’re having a login problem that only happens if the cache isn’t disabled (and the problem occurs when I run the automated tests even after this change) and also if I open the network tab, the box is not checked.

Any ideas?