In general, the protractor scripts are executed in a new browser instance with the following capabilities
capabilities: {
'browserName': 'firefox'
}
Is there any snippets or ways to tweak this; so that our scripts make use of an already opened browser through protractor.
What worked for me, for angular2:
- Go to WebDriverHub and click on Create Session, copy the generated id (eg:
2919ed90-efac-48ee-83df-46f8e98ebce7
), you'll need it in step#2.
Add/Modify protractor.conf.js
to reflect the following.
exports.config.seleniumAddress: 'http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
exports.config.seleniumSessionId: '2919ed90-efac-48ee-83df-46f8e98ebce7',
exports.config.directConnect: false
Observe:
- Setting
directConnect
to false is important.
seleniumSessionId
will need to be updated everytime u create new session (wish there was a way to tell, use current running browser window without updating seleniumSessionId
everytime)
On this line you have an example on how it's passed on the command line to Protractor: https://github.com/angular/protractor/commit/3f3805f9496fb130ae01b3e3278ee1ea7684d8e7#diff-b61b72dbab31e232fdb8466ebf733c4dR54
You can use the same parameter in your config to pass the current session ID.
You can usually get the current sessionId by browser.getSessionId
Example 1:
var runProtractor = spawn('bin/protractor',
['spec/attachSession.js', '--seleniumSessionId=' + currentSessionId]);
Example 2 using your config:
var checkOptions = {
hostname: 'localhost',
port: 4444,
seleniumSessionId: yourCurrentSessionId
....
}