Removal of webdrivermanager

[kalupator]

Hello!
Please tell why webdrivermanager was removed from the project? Now I get an error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; for more information, see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/. The latest version can be downloaded from https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

It's possible to fix if download the web driver for each browser again and setup path manually:
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "c:\\driver\\chromedriver.exe");

I tried to return webdrivermanager, but I get an error:
This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 114

[eliasnogueira]

Hi @kalupator,
The webdrivermanager library was removed in favor of Selenium Driver Manager, which has been embedded in the Selenium library since version 4.11.0.

You can add it back and use the previous approach set before the change used in the BrowserFactory class you can see in the following commits:

• 3d4f902
• 740008a
• 1dbf635

I can't help you with the error you are getting now because I don't know how you have implemented it.
I don't know if you did but don't forget to remove the fixed path to the driver when using either the webdrivermanager or the Selenium Driver Manager approach.

[kalupator]

Thanks for the answer!
I didn't use a fixed path to the webdriver because webdrivermanager downloaded the required webdriver itself.

Now I have updated to Selenium 4.18.1 and removed webdrivermanager, in the hope that the new Selenium will also download the required webdriver, as webdrivermanager did.

But I get the error described above that the webdriver was not found.

Perhaps I need to add some more dependencies or delete the cache of the old version of Selenium?

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>4.18.1</version>
        </dependency>

I can't return webdrivermanager because apparently it no longer downloads the Chrome web driver above version 114.

[eliasnogueira]

I just checked the ChromeDriver page and I saw a mention of Chrome version 115 or newer
https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

I'm running it from my local machine using the currently implemented approach with Selenium Driver Manager, and I can see the following in the ~/.cache/selenium

resolution.properties

#WebDriverManager Resolution Cache
#Wed Feb 21 20:50:30 CET 2024
chrome=121
chrome-ttl=21\:50\:30 21/02/2024 CET
chrome121=public
chrome121-ttl=20\:50\:30 22/02/2024 CET

The following list of the available chrome driver at .cache/selenium/chromedriver/mac-arm64

120.0.6099.109
121.0.6167.184
121.0.6167.85 
122.0.6261.128
123.0.6312.86

My local Chrome browser version is 123.0.6312.59
So, it's solving correctly the version.

Could you share the same info, so we can double-check and see the possible root cause?

[kalupator]

My local Chrome browser version is 123.0.6312.59.
In folder ~/.cache/selenium the last downloaded webdriver version was 114.
I deleted the entire catalog ~/.cache/selenium and the new version simply won't download.
Apparently this is the problem. I need to understand why Selenium does not start searching and downloading the webdriver.

Stacktrace after execute line - return new ChromeDriver(getOptions()) in createLocalDriver():

java.lang.IllegalStateException: The path to the driver executable The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.chrome.driver system property; for more information, see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/. The latest version can be downloaded from https://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads

	at org.openqa.selenium.internal.Require$StateChecker.nonNull(Require.java:311)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService.findExecutable(DriverService.java:135)
	at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.access$000(ChromeDriverService.java:39)
	at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService$Builder.findDefaultExecutable(ChromeDriverService.java:233)
	at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.build(DriverService.java:437)
	at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriverService.createServiceWithConfig(ChromeDriverService.java:142)
	at org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver.<init>(ChromeDriver.java:70)

[kalupator]

I found the reason, it's a matter of dependencies:
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId> updated to 4.18.1
but for some reason the rest of the dependencies remain 4.5.3

I haven't found the reason for this yet.

I only have one dependency for selenium:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>4.18.1</version>
        </dependency>

[eliasnogueira]

I am happy that you could solve the problem.
Sometimes, IntelliJ caches the dependencies and it's important to reload through the IDE as well.