Re^2: Selenium RC - How to reuse bowser session?

[zerocred]

http://groups.google.com/group/selenium-users/browse_frm/thread/40c943d3e8813af9/ed18dee8c7781dbe?lnk=gst&q=reuse+browser+session#ed18dee8c7781dbe

        public void startBrowser(String pstrBaseUrl, String pstrTimeou
+tInMilliseconds) throws Exception
        {
        browser = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*chrome", ps
+trBaseUrl);
        browser.start();
        browser.setTimeout(pstrTimeoutInMilliseconds);
        }

in the code in message 5. Unless I'm misunderstanding what is going on - (I dunno much about Java)

This one is better:

http://groups.google.com/group/selenium-users/browse_frm/thread/403b2b93e6e0e2b2/e16702ec4686cd1f?lnk=gst&q=reuse+browser+session+id#e16702ec4686cd1f

    RemoteControlConfiguration rcc = new RemoteControlConfiguration();
    rcc.reuseBrowserSessions();
    SeleniumServer ss = new SeleniumServer(rcc);
    ss.start();

What is the RemoteControlConfiguration()? or is that a home made function somewhere

[Anonymous Monk]

Try manually setting/reusing

my $sel = ...->new( session_id => 'magic string',
# OR
$sel->{session_id} =  'magic string';

or, if getExistingBrowserSession exists

$sel->{session_id} = $sel->get_string("getExistingBrowserSession", 
                                            $sel->{browser_start_comma
+nd}, 
                                            $sel->{browser_url});

[zerocred]

Thanks that's great!
This seems to sort of work, it does grab the same session if the session_id is in the constructor). I just found that I can get the existing session_id using
$sel->retrieve_last_remote_control_logs();

And can probably regex it out (I'm cut& pasting right now) - and store it somewhere if I leave the server running and relaunch my automation. Otherwise make a new session and then save teh session_id with that command or yours.

Selenium complains if I give it a 'magic string' that is not a real existing session_id, but if I give it the id of a real, existing session that is up it seems happy to use it. That seems to mean it can't be started up with arbitary session_id the server has to generate one - but if that can be captured it can be reused

However, selenium seems to require me to open a URL

$sel->open_ok("$url");

before it will allow clicking on anything. However this makes my site think I'm navigating away and makes a popup forcing me to choose to log out or abanodon the new attempts at hijacking the session! Needless to say, I didn't write the site I'm just trying to get it to do something quicker than I can type.

Still this is progress!! - Thanks so much

(off to bed now - I'll type up a full solution when I get it working)

[zerocred]

BTW I'm using Selenium RC server running on WinXP controlled from perl on Linux.

Ok I have to use the option:

auto_stop="0"

In the $sel...->new(...) constructor and the subsequent connections. Don't call

$sel->start;

in the routine to reconnect to the existing session.

I get Unknown command 'getExistingBrowserSession' if I use the function above - a great pity it looks like a very elegant way to get the session_id. My SeRC is on a WinXP box as the website only works on IE.

The command

$sel->retrieve_last_remote_control_logs();

seems to return a bunch of stuff and the session_id is in there - so I can parse an existing session_id from that.

I also found out how to avoid the website thinking I was navigating away - by using a open_ok() to a link that it is happy to navigate to without logging out - I tried that before but realized the date needs to be part of the link! That way I can maintain the session.

[zerocred]

Also "session_id = Optional argument that can be used to reuse session_ids between test runs. This can make for faster testing." is mentioned as arguments for:

$sel = WWW::Selenium->new( %args )

In some (old?) documentation here:

http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-remote-control/1.0-beta-2/doc/perl/WWW-Selenium.html#element_locators

but not in cpan