Protractor: Protractor 5.1.1 selenium-webdriver @types version inconsitency

[CAL-RJ]

Bug report

• Node Version: 6.9.4
• Protractor Version: 5.1.1
• Angular Version: 2.4.8
• Browser(s): n/a
• Operating System and Version Windows 7

I've recently upgraded to Protractor 5.1.1 and am facing some issues when setting cookies via browser.manage().addCookie()

The API has changed between versions 2 and 3 of Selenium-webdriver to expect an object rather than the previous 2..6 arguments. When I make the changes to my code to use the object, the typescript compiler complains saying that it expects 2..6 arguments.

old api:

browser.manage().addCookie('cookieName', 'cookieVal');

new api:

browser.manage().addCookie({name:'cookieName', value: 'cookieVal'});

I think this is because the @types/selenium-webdriver in the package.json of protractor v5.1.1 is pointing at version 2.53.39. The version of the actual selenium-webdriver the same package.json is referencing is 3.0.1.

I think they should both be version 3.*

related stack overflow question

[NickTomlin]

Thanks for raising this! This is something that we will need to take care of internally.

The current workaround in Craig's SO answer:

(browser.manage() as any).addCookie({name:'cookieName', value: 'cookieVal'});

I can pick this up later in the week unless someone has time to work on it before then.

[cnishina]

This should be updated. @NickTomlin do a search for // TODO's. We have a few places that we hacked in the as any to get Protractor's lib to transpile.

[NickTomlin]

@cnishina it looks like webdriver-extender is the underlying issue here since the types point to selenium 2.x. I'm still seeing the error in this issue when consuming a version of Protractor with the types at 3.x

I was able to resolve some todos in #4158 but there's still a mismatch for addCookie. I'll do some digging in web driver extender to try and update there as well but the code is pretty opaque to me at the moment 😄 Any tips would be very much appreciated

[soad666p]

any update on this, as i still see a problem with adding the cookie and get cookie

[whyboris]

November 27th, problem persists with "protractor": "5.2.0"

[monkpit]

This is still a problem in 2018 - there was some work done by @NickTomlin here but there has been no response to the PR.