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Handle WebDrivers with EventFiringWebDriver in Katalon Studio

You can use the Selenium-based class EventFiringWebDriver to configure event-driven capabilities related to your WebDrivers for test execution.

This can be used for example when logging steps or triggering certain events before an operation. You can learn more about this class from the Selenium documentation here: EventFiringWebDriver.

In this article, we show you how to handle WebDrivers with the support of EventFiringWebDriver.

Use WebDriver Event Listeners​

You can use WebDriverEventListener to handle events started by the WebDriver, which happens for example, before or after navigation, before or after a click. If EventFiringWebDriver is a class that wraps around the WebDriver to throw events, WebDriverEventListeners is an interface to catch WebDriver events. You can learn more about this interface from the Selenium documentation here: WebDriverEventListener

Below is an example use of a custom WebDriverEventListener:

  1. Create a new package to contain a keyword. Go to File > New > Package. Here, we name the package customkeyword.

  2. Create a new keyword to handle WebDriver events.

    • Go to File > New > Keywords. A New dialog opens.

    • Click Browse to choose a package for your keyword, then manually type the class name. Here, we choose the package created from Step 1 and name the keyword MyCustomWebEventListener. Click OK. A new keyword page opens.

      Choose the package and create the keyword

    • Copy and paste below sample code into the created keyword.

      import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver
      import org.openqa.selenium.support.events.AbstractWebDriverEventListener

      public class MyCustomWebEventListener extends AbstractWebDriverEventListener {
          @Override
          public void beforeNavigateTo(String url, WebDriver driver) {
              println "Before navigating to " + url;
          }
      }

      Final results after creating the keyword

  3. Open your test script. To register MyCustomWebEventListener with WebDriver, copy and paste the sample code as below:

    import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver as WebDriver
    import org.openqa.selenium.support.events.EventFiringWebDriver as EventFiringWebDriver

    import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory as DriverFactory
    import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords as WebUI

    import customlistener.MyCustomWebEventListener as MyCustomWebEventListener

    WebUI.openBrowser('')

    WebDriver webdriver = DriverFactory.getWebDriver()

    EventFiringWebDriver eventFiring = ((webdriver) as EventFiringWebDriver)

    eventFiring.register(new MyCustomWebEventListener())

    DriverFactory.changeWebDriver(eventFiring)

    WebUI.navigateToUrl('www.google.com')

    WebUI.closeBrowser()

    Final results after registering the keyword

  4. Hit Run, then observe the result in the Console log.

    2021-09-13 09:16:21.722 INFO  c.k.k.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory    - sessionId = ebf7a901164241457b656ffece5da9b0
    2021-09-13 09:16:21.747 INFO  c.k.k.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory    - browser = Chrome 93.0.4577.63
    2021-09-13 09:16:21.753 INFO  c.k.k.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory    - platform = Mac OS X
    2021-09-13 09:16:21.754 INFO  c.k.k.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory    - seleniumVersion = 3.141.59
    2021-09-13 09:16:21.773 INFO  c.k.k.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory    - proxyInformation = ProxyInformation { proxyOption=NO_PROXY, proxyServerType=HTTP, username=, password=********, proxyServerAddress=, proxyServerPort=0, executionList="", isApplyToDesiredCapabilities=true }
    2021-09-13 09:16:22.642 DEBUG testcase.WebDriver Event Listeners       - 2: webdriver = getWebDriver()
    2021-09-13 09:16:22.652 DEBUG testcase.WebDriver Event Listeners       - 3: eventFiring = webdriver
    2021-09-13 09:16:22.673 DEBUG testcase.WebDriver Event Listeners       - 4: eventFiring.register(new customlistener.MyCustomWebEventListener())
    2021-09-13 09:16:22.693 DEBUG testcase.WebDriver Event Listeners       - 5: changeWebDriver(eventFiring)
    2021-09-13 09:16:22.699 INFO  c.k.k.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory    - sessionId = ebf7a901164241457b656ffece5da9b0
    2021-09-13 09:16:22.711 INFO  c.k.k.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory    - browser = Chrome 93.0.4577.63
    2021-09-13 09:16:22.711 INFO  c.k.k.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory    - platform = Mac OS X
    2021-09-13 09:16:22.712 INFO  c.k.k.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory    - seleniumVersion = 3.141.59
    2021-09-13 09:16:22.713 INFO  c.k.k.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory    - proxyInformation = ProxyInformation { proxyOption=NO_PROXY, proxyServerType=HTTP, username=, password=********, proxyServerAddress=, proxyServerPort=0, executionList="", isApplyToDesiredCapabilities=true }
    2021-09-13 09:16:22.722 DEBUG testcase.WebDriver Event Listeners       - 6: navigateToUrl("www.google.com")
    Before navigating to http://www.google.com
    2021-09-13 09:16:23.220 DEBUG testcase.WebDriver Event Listeners       - 7: closeBrowser()
    2021-09-13 09:16:23.243 INFO  c.k.katalon.core.main.TestCaseExecutor   - END Test Cases/WebDriver Event Listeners

Use RemoteWebDriver​

Because EventFiringWebDriver does not implement the interface RemoteWebDriver, to obtain a RemoteWebDriver instance safely, do as follows:

....
// Cast Katalon's WebDriver into EventFiringWebDriver
EventFiringWebDriver eventFiring = (EventFiringWebDriver) DriverFactory.getWebDriver()
// Get the driver wrapped inside
WebDriver wrappedWebDriver = eventFiring.getWrappedDriver()
// Cast the wrapped driver into RemoteWebDriver
RemoteWebDriver katalonWebDriver = (RemoteWebDriver) wrappedWebDriver
// Katalon now uses RemoteWebDriver instead of your local driver

We recommend encapsulating the above logic into a function to avoid code duplication.

Note:

This is to avoid an exception in the case that your code is casting the WebDriver from DriverFactory, such as with:

....
RemoteWebDriver katalonWebDriver = (RemoteWebDriver) DriverFactory.getWebDriver()

In this scenario, from Katalon Studio 7.0.0, an exception would appear as below:

Cannot cast object 'com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.SmartWaitWebDriver@7cab1508' with class 'com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.SmartWaitWebDriver' to class 'org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver'

(From Russ Thomas's bug report)

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