Selenium: "InvalidArgumentError: Could not convert 'text' to string" on selenium 3.4.0/firefox 53

Created on 19 May 2017  路  8Comments  路  Source: SeleniumHQ/selenium

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OS: Ubuntu Xenial
Selenium Version: 3.4.0
Browser: Firefox

Browser Version: 53

Expected Behavior -

The google_search.js example should run without issues using the latest version of the selenium/standalone-firefox .

Actual Behavior -

I get the following error:

/usr/src/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:2634
        throw error;
        ^

InvalidArgumentError: Could not convert 'text' to string
    at WebDriverError (/usr/src/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:27:5)
    at InvalidArgumentError (/usr/src/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:64:5)
    at Object.throwDecodedError (/usr/src/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/error.js:489:11)
    at parseHttpResponse (/usr/src/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:519:13)
    at doSend.then.response (/usr/src/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/http.js:441:30)
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:103:7)
From: Task: WebElement.sendKeys()
    at thenableWebDriverProxy.schedule (/usr/src/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver.js:816:17)
    at WebElementPromise.schedule_ (/usr/src/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver.js:2024:25)
    at WebElementPromise.sendKeys (/usr/src/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver.js:2187:19)
    at driver.get.then._ (/usr/src/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/example/google_search.js:47:49)
    at ManagedPromise.invokeCallback_ (/usr/src/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:1384:14)
    at TaskQueue.execute_ (/usr/src/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:3092:14)
    at TaskQueue.executeNext_ (/usr/src/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:3075:27)
    at asyncRun (/usr/src/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:2935:27)
    at /usr/src/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/promise.js:676:7
    at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:103:7)

Steps to reproduce -

docker build and docker run this Dockerfile, which uses the latest versions of the selenium/standalone-firefox docker image and selenium-webdriver npm module.

Most helpful comment

This is fixed in 6907a12, will be in the next release of javascript bindings

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I'm getting this as well

This is fixed in 6907a12, will be in the next release of javascript bindings

@jleyba did you decide on a date for 3.4.1 yet?

Is this fix released yet?

@gkushang Nope, looks like we're still on 3.4.0

still we have this issue in 3.4.0

@jleyba is there someone other than you who can prepare a new release?

+1

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