PersistentWebdriver

PersistentWebdriver.py

from selenium import webdriver

from selenium.webdriver.remote.remote_connection import RemoteConnection
from selenium.webdriver.remote.errorhandler import ErrorHandler
from selenium.webdriver.remote.command import Command

class PersistentWebdriver (webdriver.Remote):
    
    def __init__(self, session_id=None, browser_name=''):
        command_executor='http://localhost:4444/wd/hub'
        platform = version = ''
        javascript_enabled = True

        self.command_executor = command_executor
        if type(self.command_executor) is str:
            self.command_executor = RemoteConnection(command_executor)
        
        self.command_executor._commands['GET_SESSION'] = ('GET', '/session/$sessionId')
        
        self.session_id = session_id
        self.capabilities = {}
        self.error_handler = ErrorHandler()

        if session_id:
            self.connect_to_session(
                browser_name=browser_name,
                platform=platform,
                version=version,
                javascript_enabled=javascript_enabled
            )
        else:
            self.start_session(
                browser_name=browser_name,
                platform=platform,
                version=version,
                javascript_enabled=javascript_enabled
            )
            
    def connect_to_session(self, browser_name, platform, version, javascript_enabled):
        response =  self.execute('GET_SESSION', {
            'desiredCapabilities': {
                'browserName': browser_name,
                'platform': platform or 'ANY',
                'version': version or '',
                'javascriptEnabled': javascript_enabled
            },
            'sessionId': self.session_id
        })
        self.session_id = response['sessionId']
        self.capabilities = response['value']

Could you please provide an example on how to instantiate this class? Does it still works, on current versions (2 years is quite a time)? I would be incredible grateful if you could. Thanks.

could you please provide an example

I am quite new to Selenium and Java Programming, can you please provide a example how to instantiate this class in selenium

Hello, based on you class I made some changes directly on webriver.py and finally achieved reuse the session on browser.
/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py
axelPalmerin/personal@fabddb3

Ej.

from selenium.webdriver.common.desired_capabilities import DesiredCapabilities

runDriver = sys.argv[1]
sessionId = sys.argv[2]

def setBrowser():
    if eval(runDriver):
        webdriver = w.Remote(command_executor='http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
                     desired_capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.CHROME,
                     )
    else:
        webdriver = w.Remote(command_executor='http://localhost:4444/wd/hub',
                             desired_capabilities=DesiredCapabilities.CHROME,
                             session_id=sessionId)

    url = webdriver.command_executor._url
    session_id = webdriver.session_id
    print url
    print session_id
    return webdriver

Amazing !!!

hey is this really working ?