Deprecated youiengine

[TikhomirovSergey]

Change list

• all the content of the io.appium.java_client.youiengine package was marked as Deprecated
• update of the com.google.code.gson:gson to v2.8.1

Types of changes

• No changes in production code.
• Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)

Details

This package was added at #429. It was accepted due to previous implementation was not flexible and it did not allowed user to use their own commands/JSONWP protocol extensions. Now AppiumDriver is not abstract and it can be used across supported platfoms.

Please take a look at the following sample:

...
import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver;
import io.appium.java_client.android.Activity;
import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidElement;
...

    private static AppiumDriver<AndroidElement> driver;
    private StartsActivity startsActivity;

        ...
        DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
        ...
        driver = new AppiumDriver<>(...);

        ...
        startsActivity = new StartsActivity() {
            @Override
            public Response execute(String driverCommand, Map<String, ?> parameters) {
                return driver.execute(driverCommand, parameters);
            }

            @Override
            public Response execute(String driverCommand) {
                return driver.execute(driverCommand);
            }
        };
        Activity activity = new Activity("io.appium.android.apis", ".ApiDemos");
        startsActivity.startActivity(activity);

Also now it allows end user to extend command repository the following way:

MobileCommand.commandRepository.put("someCommand", new AppiumCommandInfo("someUrl", HttpMethod.POST));

Also I was motivated to remove this package because there is no activity/development.

[TikhomirovSergey]

@SrinivasanTarget @mykola-mokhnach Could you review it.

FYI @pfoster-youitv @philgreenyouilabs @jlipps @simongranger

[mykola-mokhnach]

I suppose the common practice is to put a docsting before an annotation, but not after

[TikhomirovSergey]

@mykola-mokhnach @SrinivasanTarget I have updated it a little bit and now I am trying to notify youiengine guys.

[SrinivasanTarget]

LGTM @TikhomirovSergey

[mykola-mokhnach]

@TikhomirovSergey I think the best place to find them is general channel of Appium's slack. We could add your account if you are still not there.

[pfoster-youitv]

Now AppiumDriver is not abstract and it can be used across supported platfoms.

That was the main thing we needed and not be strictly tied to either iOS or Android elements/commands since we do not use Android or iOS native elements. 👍

[TikhomirovSergey]

@pfoster-youitv
Ok. So we are waiting for the youiengine decision.