Dusk: Access Dusk outside of CLI

Created on 7 Sep 2017 · 11Comments · Source: laravel/dusk

I would like to run dusk outside of the CLI. Basically I'm trying to run my tests via a route or controller
like this

Route::get('runtests', function()
{
echo '
init Dusk...';
Artisan::call('dusk');
echo 'done dusk';
});

Is there a way to access dusk through the artisan facade?

Source

dk4210

Most helpful comment

You can create your own Chrome browser like this @poxin13:

use Facebook\WebDriver\Chrome\ChromeOptions;
use Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\DesiredCapabilities;
use Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebDriver;
use Laravel\Dusk\Browser;
use Laravel\Dusk\Chrome\ChromeProcess;

$process = (new ChromeProcess)->toProcess();
$process->start();
$options = (new ChromeOptions)->addArguments(['--disable-gpu', '--headless']);
$capabilities = DesiredCapabilities::chrome()->setCapability(ChromeOptions::CAPABILITY, $options);
$driver = retry(5, function () use($capabilities) {
    return RemoteWebDriver::create('http://localhost:9515', $capabilities);
}, 50);
$browser = new Browser($driver);
$browser->visit('https://www.google.com');
$browser->quit();
$process->stop();

If you are using Windows, replace $process->start(); with this:

$process->start(null, [
    'SystemRoot' => 'C:\\WINDOWS',
    'TEMP' => 'C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Temp',
]);

staudenmeir on 25 Mar 2018

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I found that I needed to remove this if statement from DuskServiceProvider.php
"if ($this->app->runningInConsole()) {"

When I run this code now

$_SERVER['argv'] = [];
echo '
init Dusk...';
Artisan::call('dusk');
echo 'done dusk';

I get this error message

Warning: TTY mode is not supported on Windows platform.\r\n
Could not open input file: vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit\n

The warning is normal. I get that even when I run via CLI. The second one in regards to phpunit is what i'm trying to figure out now.

dk4210 on 8 Sep 2017

I too would like to be able to cleanly call Dusk via a controller for aspects outside of pure testing. Could be used as a neat automation tool in certain scenarios. Example if the endpoint doesn't have an API.

poxin13 on 10 Feb 2018

maybe someone managed to run dusk from controller?

huglester on 24 Mar 2018

You can create your own Chrome browser like this @poxin13:

use Facebook\WebDriver\Chrome\ChromeOptions;
use Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\DesiredCapabilities;
use Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebDriver;
use Laravel\Dusk\Browser;
use Laravel\Dusk\Chrome\ChromeProcess;

$process = (new ChromeProcess)->toProcess();
$process->start();
$options = (new ChromeOptions)->addArguments(['--disable-gpu', '--headless']);
$capabilities = DesiredCapabilities::chrome()->setCapability(ChromeOptions::CAPABILITY, $options);
$driver = retry(5, function () use($capabilities) {
    return RemoteWebDriver::create('http://localhost:9515', $capabilities);
}, 50);
$browser = new Browser($driver);
$browser->visit('https://www.google.com');
$browser->quit();
$process->stop();

If you are using Windows, replace $process->start(); with this:

$process->start(null, [
    'SystemRoot' => 'C:\\WINDOWS',
    'TEMP' => 'C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\Temp',
]);

staudenmeir on 25 Mar 2018

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I used this code and prefixed it with the required namespaces like so

`
$process = (new \Laravel\Dusk\Chrome\ChromeProcess)->toProcess();
$process->start();
$options = (new \Facebook\WebDriver\Chrome\ChromeOptions)->addArguments(['--disable-gpu', '--headless']);
$capabilities = \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\DesiredCapabilities::chrome()->setCapability(\Facebook\WebDriver\Chrome\ChromeOptions::CAPABILITY, $options);
$driver = retry(5, function () use($capabilities) {
return \Facebook\WebDriver\Remote\RemoteWebDriver::create('http://localhost:9515', $capabilities);}, 50);

$browser = new Browser($driver);
$browser->visit('https://www.google.com');
$browser->quit();
$process->stop();
`

Unfortunately it seems like it's not starting the browser process correctly whereas it does perfectly when using Dusk with phpunit as in the official doc.

Curl error thrown for http POST to /session with params: {"desiredCapabilities":{"browserName":"chrome","platform":"ANY","chromeOptions":{"binary":"","args":["--disable-gpu","--headless"]}}} Failed to connect to localhost port 9515: Connection refused

I need to run this and have control on the process, make it visit pages, dump the HTML, etc... from a controller.

Has anyone managed to get through this ?