Appium-desktop: Appium-Desktop Inspector error for location alert

[VTINFOJames]

Location alert causes inspector to bomb.

• [x] I have verified that my issue does not occur with Appium and should be investigated as an Appium Desktop issue

The problem

I push the native app to a real device in Xcode. I try to inspect the app with the Appium-Desktop inspector and the utility will display the screen showing the location alert but the page source cannot be retrieved due to the following error:

App Source
Could not obtain source: {"cause":{"sessionId":"0403f9fa-f531-42f9-8f09-48287245cd00","status":13,"value":{"message":"An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: Cannot get '(null)' source of the current application"}},"jsonwire-error":{"detail":"An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command.","status":13,"summary":"UnknownError"},"message":"[source()] Error response status: 13, , UnknownError - An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Selenium error: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: Cannot get '(null)' source of the current application","status":13}

Environment

• I am running Appium Desktop version 1.27.
• I am on (pick one):
  
  
  
  • [x] Mac
  
  
  • [ ] Windows
  
  
  • [ ] Linux
    
    Xcode 9.1
    
    IOS 10.3.3 or 11.1 (real device, native app)
  
  

[VTINFOJames]

The older Appium desktop app inspector allowed us to inspect the location alert (iOS 8, 9).

[mojojojo94]

facing similar issue.

[dpgraham]

Do either of you have the Appium server logs for this?

[mojojojo94]

@dpgraham, Yes I have more detailed information, with appium server logs gist over here:
https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/issues/371

[VTINFOJames]

I just tried this again to get the log but it worked this time. I am now on iOS 11.2.1, Mac OS High Sierra (was on Sierra previously). Xcode 9.2 and still using Appium-Desktop 1.2.7.

[VTINFOJames]

Actually... There is another change to my environment. I just remembered that I had downloaded the new FacebookWebDriver work around for the getPageSource() timeout issues. See my comments Here.

[dpgraham]

@VTINFOJames Yes, I remember that. That was a major issue for IOS. I'll close this now.