Webdriveragent: [xcode 9] WebdriverAgentLib build failure: 'new' is unavailable: Use XCUIElementQuery to create XCUIElement instances.

Created on 22 Sep 2017 · 4Comments · Source: facebookarchive/WebDriverAgent

Recently upgraded(21/09/2017) xcode from 8.3 to xcode 9. Since then unable to build the WebDriverAgent.xcodeproj.
Appium version: 1.7.0

Issue: Error in WebDriverAgentLib. Error message: 'new' is unavailable: Use XCUIElementQuery to create XCUIElement instances.
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pkulkarnii

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This fixed the issue for me.

For all of you who can't build WebDriverAgent in Xcode 9 it's because the WebDriverAgent project isn't updated in Appium 1.21. To fix it simply clone the repo from this link https://github.com/facebook/WebDriverAgent and replace it with downloaded WebDriverAgent with Appium.
Also run ./Scripts/bootstrap.sh in this directory.

pkulkarnii on 23 Sep 2017

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Hi,

I follow instructions here => https://github.com/facebook/WebDriverAgent/issues/611

but it failed to build again with other errors

lolotoms on 22 Sep 2017

This fixed the issue for me.

For all of you who can't build WebDriverAgent in Xcode 9 it's because the WebDriverAgent project isn't updated in Appium 1.21. To fix it simply clone the repo from this link https://github.com/facebook/WebDriverAgent and replace it with downloaded WebDriverAgent with Appium.
Also run ./Scripts/bootstrap.sh in this directory.

pkulkarnii on 23 Sep 2017

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@pkulkarnii: As you mentioned I replaced the WebDriverAgent and was able to successfully install the web driver agent in my device, but it damaged the appium, and when I tried to open it mac was throwing an error like can't your appium is damaged and move it to thrash. I am using appium GUI.