BrowserSim and Selenium WebDriver

[asotobu]

Hello,

this is Alex, I am a user and developer of Arquillian framework. Actually I am developing a product that will need some kind of check of how a web page looks in a mobile device. An exact representation is not required only a more or less preview is enough. So the first thing that comes to my mind is use Arquillian Droidum Web extension. The problem is that you need to open an Emulator which is a problem because it takes the whole life to open. Then I thought about Arquillian Drone and BrowserSim. So my question is:

Are there any webdriver available for running BrowserSim? And if not can I find in any place how I can start a BrowserSim (I have read a bit in different posts) but more important can I get all required information to create a WebDriver? (basically navigation, loading page and getting content).

Thank you so much,

Alex.

[ibuziuk]

Hello, Alex

< Are there any webdriver available for running BrowserSim?

For now BrowserSim could be run using one of the following web engines - SWT.WEBKIT of JavaFx WebView. So I guess the question could be transformed to - *Are there any webdriver available for SWT.WEBKIT or javaFx WebView*. There is a webdriver for Safari - https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/SafariDriver , but frankly I don't know how hard would it be to adopt it for SWT.WEBKIT.  In terms of javaFx - I guess we should look at it more properly, cause anyway Safari on windows is almost dead (2 years without any updates) - it is just a matter of time. After surfing on the internet I have found a repo - lukas-krecan/javafx-webview-webdriver · GitHub . It can't be even named half-baked, but still there is an attempt to do it. I have also posted a related question to the javafx thread - https://community.oracle.com/thread/3552093

[dmp1]

It's hard for me to understand your full requirements, but this project is a WebDriver implementation using Java's embedded WebKit: MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver · GitHub

It can be used headless or with a full GUI.

[maxandersen]

Looks interesting but unfortunately its license (GNU Affero General Public License version 3) prevents packaging together with EPL license ;/

[dmp1]

What if I were to add a classpath exception? E.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classpath_exception

[maxandersen]

classpath exception helps - but GNU Affero seem to require I add mention of its usage to all UI pages ...thus need to get legal to check how that is supposed to work in eclipse UI's ;/

(sorry for late answer - fell through the cracks)

[dmp1]

I added a linking exception to jBrowserDriver. Specific wording:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MachinePublishers/jBrowserDriver/master/LICENSE

I haven't yet addressed the annoyance of mentioning it on every UI page, if that's in fact required given the linking exception. All I'd want is some acknowledgement or mention in a readme/license/docs so there's some record of it and I'm happy to make the linking exception allow for that. Feel free to open a github issue for any license concerns. Mostly I just want proprietary apps/webapps to not be using a modified version of the project.