Karate: Need to keep driver alive from qutting after any called feature

[babusekaran]

Currently, if we initialize a driver in a feature and call another feature in it, once the called feature is executed it is quitting the parent feature's driver instance.

Feature: browser automation

Background:
  * configure driver = { type: 'geckodriver', showDriverLog: true }

Scenario: try to login to github
  Given driver 'https://google.com'
  And input("input[name=q]", 'karate dsl')
  When submit().click("input[name=btnI]")
  Then match driver.url == 'https://github.com/intuit/karate'
  * def callUsers = call read("users.feature")
  * def bytes = driver.screenshot()
  * karate.embed(bytes, 'image/png')

in the above example after users.feature it is observed that driver instance is quitting and usage of driver will give an error.

KarateApiAndWeb.zip

[babusekaran]

by changing
https://github.com/intuit/karate/blob/0d5cff99bc4eeda1a22ac73499ffee38ad29187d/karate-core/src/main/java/com/intuit/karate/Script.java#L274 to return callWithCache(text, arg, context, true);

and https://github.com/intuit/karate/blob/0d5cff99bc4eeda1a22ac73499ffee38ad29187d/karate-core/src/main/java/com/intuit/karate/Script.java#L276 to return call(text, arg, context, false);

seems to fix this, but want to understand the impact, can we go this approach?

[venkiteelay]

I too have a similar issue. I would like a single instance of karate driver to be used across a scenario outline. As part of my test, I will have to post a message on to Kafka topic and observe some UI change. I will have to repeat this for different values of the message but the browser should not be refreshed or reloaded while I am posting these messages and checking the UI behavior.

[ptrthomas]

@babusekaran looks like it was a one-line fix ! can you confirm ?

[ptrthomas]

@venkiteelay for your use-case can you check if instead of using a Scenario Outline - you can use a call and loop over an array for data-driven testing, I am just trying to keep the framework simple

[babusekaran]

@ptrthomas Thanks! it is working fine 👍

[ptrthomas]

released 0.9.5

[srkanpu]

@babusekaran Can you please share the code snippet to carry driver instance from one feature file to another?

[babusekaran]

@srkanpu By carrying driver from one feature file to another you mean calling another feature within a feature? if that's the case please refer to the code snippet and attachment at the top.