zerocred has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hallo All,

I'm using Selenium RC to automate website interaction. It would simplify and speed tasks if I can reuse an existing or previously set up browser session.

I already have set -browserSessionReuse option in the server and the auto_stop="0" so it leaves the browser running. When I set up a new connection I get this:

23:19:04.828 INFO - Command request: getNewBrowserSession[*iexplore, h
+ttp://www.example.com/] on session null
23:19:04.828 INFO - grabbing available session...
23:19:04.828 INFO - creating new remote session
23:19:04.828 INFO - Allocated session eb2150d86aac4aa8812287aab1dae0df
+ for http://www.example.com/, launching...
23:19:04.921 INFO - Launching Embedded Internet Explorer...
23:19:05.921 INFO - Launching Internet Explorer HTA...

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It seems to grab the available session but the 'Test::WWW::Selenium->new()'probably overwrites it - any alternative?, What am I doing wrong.

I see there is a session_id option mentioned in earlier documentation (but not current cpan documentation) - but not how to get it or use it...

I've seen mention of reusing the session in Java - but it seems to use a command not available in Perl - is that the case?

Cheers!

David

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Re: Selenium RC - How to reuse bowser session?
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 21, 2010 at 16:08 UTC
    I've seen mention of reusing the session in Java - but it seems to use a command not available in Perl - is that the case?

    Link?

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      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);
        }

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      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();

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

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        Try manually setting/reusing 
        my $sel = ...->new( session_id => 'magic string',
# OR
$sel->{session_id} =  'magic string';

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

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        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

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