Warning: Selenium 3.5.1 breaks java client 5.0.0-BETA9

[welnanick]

I am using gradle to handle dependencies for my project. In my build.gradle I have testCompile "io.appium:java-client:5.0.0-BETA9" to compile the appium java client. It seems Selenium 3.5.1 was just released (their website has not been updated as I am writing this), and for some reason gradle is grabbing version 3.5.1 automatically for selenium-api, selenium-remote-driver, and selenium-support. I don't know why this is happening, but it is and it breaks the java client. I had to add

compile ('org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-api:3.4.0'){force = true}
compile ('org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-remote-driver:3.4.0'){force = true}
compile ('org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-support:3.4.0'){force = true}

to fix my project.

So, if your project just suddenly stopped working for no reason whatsoever, check if these packages were updated, and if so make sure to force version 3.4.0 for them.

[jason-edstrom]

I just solved this exact issue on my setup. Same resolution approach, forcing 3.4.0.

[QAutomatron]

Faced the same problem. Thank you for a solution.

I tried a different one, it also helps:

configurations.all {
    resolutionStrategy {
        force 'org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-support:3.4.0',
                'org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-api:3.4.0'
    }
}

[SrinivasanTarget]

@QAutomatron @welnanick @jason-edstrom Whats the actual problem faced here? What breaks with 3.5.1? Gonna hands-on anyways tomorrow. Is it only with gradle?

[SrinivasanTarget]

Changes are here: SeleniumHQ/selenium@323132d
SeleniumHQ/selenium@0b30188

[welnanick]

It seems annotations (or possibly all FindBy operations given the changes in selenium) break. When testing android, elements populated using @AndroidFindBy stay null, and when testing iOS elements populated using @iOSFindBy cause org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException

Unfortunately I am not in a position to investigate further, nor confirm whether it is just presenting itself with gradle or not.

[SrinivasanTarget]

Cool thanks. will investigate further.

[SrinivasanTarget]

@TikhomirovSergey ping

[Brian-Watson]

I'm seeing this for my Android tests after the Selenium 3.5.1 upgrade...

org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement cannot be cast to io.appium.java_client.MobileElement

Where my code is attempting this...

MobileElement foundElement = (MobileElement) wait.until(ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated(this.getLocator()));

Note: I'm not using PageFactory

[SrinivasanTarget]

#698

[TikhomirovSergey]

The fix is here #699. It will be published on the nearest (26.08.2017 - 27.08.2017) weekend.