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

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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Re^3: Selenium RC - How to reuse bowser session? by Anonymous Monk on Mar 21, 2010 at 17:00 UTC
Try manually setting/reusing `my $sel = ...->new( session_id => 'magic string', # OR $sel->{session_id} = 'magic string';` [download] or, if getExistingBrowserSession exists `$sel->{session_id} = $sel->get_string("getExistingBrowserSession", $sel->{browser_start_comma +nd}, $sel->{browser_url});` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Selenium RC - How to reuse bowser session? by zerocred (Beadle) on Mar 21, 2010 at 18:05 UTC
Thanks that's great! This seems to sort of work, it does grab the same session if the session_id is in the constructor). I just found that I can get the existing session_id using `$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)	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^5: Selenium RC - How to reuse bowser session? by zerocred (Beadle) on Mar 22, 2010 at 18:41 UTC
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 `$sel->retrieve_last_remote_control_logs();` seems to return a bunch of stuff and the session_id is in there - so I can parse an existing session_id from that. I also found out how to avoid the website thinking I was navigating away - by using a open_ok() to a link that it is happy to navigate to without logging out - I tried that before but realized the date needs to be part of the link! That way I can maintain the session.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Selenium RC - How to reuse bowser session? by zerocred (Beadle) on Mar 21, 2010 at 16:49 UTC
Also "session_id = Optional argument that can be used to reuse session_ids between test runs. This can make for faster testing." is mentioned as arguments for: `$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	[reply] [d/l]