Using DesiredCapabilities and ChromeOptions in Selenium 4

Question

I'm upgrading from Selenium 2.53 to 4.3.0. I have a block of code that is not working now with the newer Selenium version. It worked fine with the older 2.53 version.

public static DesiredCapabilities getChromeCapabilities() {
  log.debug("Configuring LOG");
  LoggingPreferences logPrefs = new LoggingPreferences();
  logPrefs.enable(LogType.BROWSER, Level.ALL);

  log.debug("Configuring Chrome");
    //This line gives a message saying "Cannot resolve method 'chrome()'
  DesiredCapabilities desiredCaps = DesiredCapabilities.chrome
  desiredCaps.setCapability(CapabilityType.LOGGING_PREFS, logPrefs);
  ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions;
    //This line gives a message saying "Cannot resolve method 'addArguments(java.lang.String)'
  options.addArguments("--no-sandbox");
    //This line gives a message saying "Cannot resolve method 'addArguments(java.lang.String)'
  options.addArguments("disable-infobars");
    //This line gives a message saying "Cannot resolve method 'addArguments(java.lang.String)'
  options.addArguments("--ignore-certificate-errors");
    //This line gives a message saying "Cannot resolve method 'addArguments(java.lang.String)'
  options.addArguments("--window-position=0,0");
    //This line gives a message saying "Cannot resolve method 'addArguments(java.lang.String)'
  options.addArguments("--window-size=1920,1080");
    //This line gives a message saying "Cannot resolve method 'setExperimentationalOption(java.lang.String, java.util.List<T>)'
  options.setExperimentationalOption("excludeSwitches, Arrays.asList("enable-automation",  
  "disable-impl-side-painting"));

  Map<String,Object> prefs = new HashMap<~>();
  prefs.put("credentials_enable_service",false);
  prefs.put("profile.password_manager_enabled",false);
  prefs.put("plugins.always_open_pdf_externally",true);
    //This line gives a message saying "Cannot resolve method 'setExperimentationalOption(java.lang.String, java.util.Map<java.lang.String,java.lang.Object>)'
  options.setExperimentationalOption("prefs",prefs);

  desiredCaps.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);

  return desiredCaps;
}

I'm not sure what to replace this with:

DesiredCapabilities desiredCaps = DesiredCapabilities.chrome

I'm also not sure why addArgument() and setExperimentationalOption() are not resolving. I think they're being used in the correct way here, so I'm not sure what the problem is. I have the following import statement at the top:

import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;

Chris Navrides Chris Navrides · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-28T22:26:24

It may be how you do your initialization of your options and capabilities. Try

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
DesiredCapabilities desiredCaps = new DesiredCapabilities();

Using DesiredCapabilities and ChromeOptions in Selenium 4

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