NAME
Selenium::Firefox - Use FirefoxDriver without a Selenium server
VERSION
version 0.2750
SYNOPSIS
# these two are the same, and will only work with Firefox 48 and
# greater
my $driver = Selenium::Firefox->new;
my $driver = Selenium::Firefox->new( marionette_enabled => 1 );
# execute your test as usual
$driver->shutdown_binary;
# For Firefox 47 and older, disable marionette:
my $driver = Selenium::Firefox->new( marionette_enabled => 0 );
$driver->shutdown_binary;DESCRIPTION
This class allows you to use the FirefoxDriver without needing the JRE or a selenium server running. Unlike starting up an instance of S::R::D, do not pass the remote_server_addr and port arguments, and we will search for the Firefox executable in your $PATH. We'll try to start the binary, connect to it, and shut it down at the end of the test.
If the Firefox application is not found in the expected places, we'll fall back to the default Selenium::Remote::Driver behavior of assuming defaults of 127.0.0.1:4444 after waiting a few seconds.
If you specify a remote server address, or a port, our assumption is that you are doing standard S::R::D behavior and we will not attempt any binary startup.
If you're curious whether your Selenium::Firefox instance is using a separate Firefox binary, or through the selenium server, you can check the value of the binary_mode attr after instantiation.
ATTRIBUTES
binary
Optional: specify the path to the geckodriver binary - this is NOT the path to the Firefox browser. To specify the path to your Firefox browser binary, see the "firefox_binary" attr.
For Firefox 48 and greater, this is the path to your geckodriver executable. If you don't specify anything, we'll search for geckodriver in your $PATH.
For Firefox 47 and older, this attribute does not apply, because the older FF browsers do not use the separate driver binary startup.
binary_port
Optional: specify the port that we should bind to. If you don't specify anything, we'll default to the driver's default port. Since there's no a priori guarantee that this will be an open port, this is _not_ necessarily the port that we end up using - if the port here is already bound, we'll search above it until we find an open one.
See "port" in Selenium::CanStartBinary for more details, and "port" in Selenium::Remote::Driver after instantiation to see what the actual port turned out to be.
firefox_profile
Optional: Pass in an instance of Selenium::Firefox::Profile pre-configured as you please. The preferences you specify will be merged with the ones necessary for setting up webdriver, and as a result some options may be overwritten or ignored.
my $profile = Selenium::Firefox::Profile->new;
my $firefox = Selenium::Firefox->new(
firefox_profile => $profile
);marionette_binary_port
Optional: specify the port that we should bind marionette to. If you don't specify anything, we'll default to the marionette's default port. Since there's no a priori guarantee that this will be an open port, this is _not_ necessarily the port that we end up using - if the port here is already bound, we'll search above it until we find an open one.
Selenium::Firefox->new(
marionette_enabled => 1,
marionette_binary_port => 12345,
);Attempting to specify a marionette_binary_port in conjunction with setting marionette_enabled does not make sense and will most likely not do anything useful.
marionette_enabled
Optional: specify whether marionette should be enabled or not. By default, marionette is enabled, which assumes you are running with Firefox 48 or newer. To use this module to start Firefox 47 or older, you must pass marionette_enabled = 0>.
my $ff48 = Selenium::Firefox->new( marionette_enabled => 1 ); # defaults to 1
my $ff47 = Selenium::Firefox->new( marionette_enabled => 0 );firefox_binary
Optional: specify the path to the Firefox browser executable. Although we will attempt to locate this in your $PATH, you may specify it explicitly here. Note that path here must point to a file that exists and is executable, or we will croak.
For Firefox 48 and newer, this will be passed to geckodriver such that it will attempt to start up the Firefox at the specified path.
For Firefox 47 and older, this browser path will be the file that we directly start up.
custom_args
Optional: specify any additional command line arguments you'd like invoked during the binary startup. See "custom_args" in Selenium::CanStartBinary for more information.
For Firefox 48 and newer, these arguments will be passed to geckodriver during start up.
For Firefox 47 and older, these arguments will be passed to the Firefox browser during start up.
startup_timeout
Optional: specify how long to wait for the binary to start itself and listen on its port. The default duration is arbitrarily 10 seconds. It accepts an integer number of seconds to wait: the following will wait up to 20 seconds:
Selenium::Firefox->new( startup_timeout => 20 );See "startup_timeout" in Selenium::CanStartBinary for more information.
METHODS
shutdown_binary
Call this method instead of "quit" in Selenium::Remote::Driver to ensure that the binary executable is also closed, instead of simply closing the browser itself. If the browser is still around, it will call quit for you. After that, it will try to shutdown the browser binary by making a GET to /shutdown and on Windows, it will attempt to do a taskkill on the binary CMD window.
$self->shutdown_binary;It doesn't take any arguments, and it doesn't return anything.
We do our best to call this when the $driver option goes out of scope, but if that happens during global destruction, there's nothing we can do.
SEE ALSO
Please see those modules/websites for more information related to this module.
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/gempesaw/Selenium-Remote-Driver/issues
When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.
AUTHORS
Current Maintainers:
Daniel Gempesaw <gempesaw@gmail.com>
Emmanuel Peroumalnaïk <peroumalnaik.emmanuel@gmail.com>
Previous maintainers:
Luke Closs <cpan@5thplane.com>
Mark Stosberg <mark@stosberg.com>
Original authors:
Aditya Ivaturi <ivaturi@gmail.com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2010-2011 Aditya Ivaturi, Gordon Child
Copyright (c) 2014-2015 Daniel Gempesaw
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.