Protractor: browser.getCapabilities() no longer returning capabilities.caps_ (Protractor 3.2)

[PaddyMann]

• Protractor Version: 3.2

browser.getCapabilities() used to return an object with caps_ which was readable, and could be used to examine the browserName and version.

Which I can still output the returned capabilities to console, I can't seem to access any of the properties on it anymore, and so our tests won't run in 3.2.

How can we access the browserName and version in 3.2?

[juliemr]

This is due to changes in the selenium-webdriver module in version 2.52.

See their release notes here: https://github.com/SeleniumHQ/selenium/blob/master/javascript/node/selenium-webdriver/CHANGES.md#v2520

Capabilities now extends native map, so you should be able to use .has(<key>) to get at the info you were using before.

[juliemr]

As a future FYI - properties with an underscore are generally considered private and subject to change without notice.

I'll update the CHANGELOG to include a link to to the selenium-webdriver changelog.

[PaddyMann]

Thanks Julie - appreciated :)

For anyone else looking here, you'll need to use (e.g.) capabilites.get('browserName')

[yamafaktory]

Sorry to write a new comment in this closed issue, but I'm trying to figure out what is the correct way to get the capabilities now? I mean if you use the former:

browser.getCapabilities().then((c) => {
  console.log(c)
})

it outputs (e.g.):

Capabilities {
  'acceptSslCerts' => true,
  'applicationCacheEnabled' => false,
  'browserConnectionEnabled' => false,
  'browserName' => 'chrome',
  'chrome' => {},
  'cssSelectorsEnabled' => true,
  'databaseEnabled' => false,
  'handlesAlerts' => true,
  'hasTouchScreen' => false,
  'javascriptEnabled' => true,
  'locationContextEnabled' => true,
  'mobileEmulationEnabled' => false,
  'nativeEvents' => true,
  'platform' => 'ANDROID',
  'rotatable' => false,
  'takesHeapSnapshot' => true,
  'takesScreenshot' => true,
  'version' => '37.0.0.0',
  'webStorageEnabled' => true }

Then, how to get access to these properties (Capabilities is not an object)?

[PaddyMann]

@yamafaktory

Use (e.g.):

c.get('acceptSslCerts');
c.get('applicationCacheEnabled');
c.get('browserConnectionEnabled');

[yamafaktory]

Ok, many thanks, I will try that!

[writetocynthia]

I spent some time figuring this out especially I got the same object as above and didnt know how to parse. Here's the updated code for this.

browser.getCapabilities().then(function(c) {
                console.log(c.get('browserName'));
});

[numanWD]

Thanks