[Selenium Grid]: Unable to launch Robot tests on remote machine - selenium

Question

I have set up selenium grid on local machine and a node is set up on remote machine.
The node is running
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.8.1.jar -role node -hub http://<hub_machine>:4444/grid/register
Now I have written robot tests to run the script on the remote machine as follows:
Open Browser google.com chrome None http://<hub_machine>:4444/wd/hub desired_capabilities=browserName:chrome,platform:WINDOWS
I also tried using the remote Webdriver as follows:
${executor}= Evaluate str('http://<hub_machine>:4444/wd/hub')
${desired capabilities}= Evaluate { "browserName": "chrome", "version": "", "platform": "VISTA", "javascriptEnabled": True}
Create Webdriver Remote desired_capabilities=${desired capabilities} command_executor=${executor}
But it the code throws an error as follows:
2018-02-20 13:33:41.655:WARN:osjs.HttpChannel:qtp662736689-13: /wd/hub/session java.io.IOException: org.openqa.grid.common.exception.GridException: Cannot extract a capabilities from the request: {"capabilities": {"alwaysMatch": {"version": "", "platform": "VISTA", "browserName": "chrome", "javascriptEnabled": true}, "firstMatch": []}, "desiredCapabilities": {"version": "", "platform": "VISTA", "browserName": "chrome", "javascriptEnabled": true}}
Please suggest how to resolve this issue.

Answer 1

The error says it all :
/wd/hub/session java.io.IOException: org.openqa.grid.common.exception.GridException: Cannot extract a capabilities from the request: {"capabilities": {"alwaysMatch": {"version": "", "platform": "VISTA", "browserName": "chrome", "javascriptEnabled": true}, "firstMatch": []}, "desiredCapabilities": {"version": "", "platform": "VISTA", "browserName": "chrome", "javascriptEnabled": true}}
To start the Selenium Grid Node you should provide the WebDriver variant as an argument as follows :
Mozilla Firefox :
java -Dwebdriver.gecko.driver=geckodriver.exe -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.8.1.jar -role node -hub http://<hub_machine>:4444/grid/register
Chrome :
java -Dwebdriver.chrome.driver=chromedriver.exe -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.8.1.jar -role node -hub http://<hub_machine>:4444/grid/register
Internet Explorer :
java -Dwebdriver.ie.driver=IEDriverServer.exe -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.8.1.jar -role node -hub http://<hub_machine>:4444/grid/register
Update
As you are still seeing the same error you need to :
Provide the complete url including the protocol as https://www.google.com (instead of only google.com)
Clean the Project from your IDE
Use CCleaner tool to wipe off all the OS chores.
Execute your Test

Answer 2

Note if you need to run Robot tests across many systems then Grid is the way. But if you only need one remote machine you can use the selenium server in stand alone mode.
I just solved this problem. Here is how I did it for Grid:
Start the Hub and Node Selenium server
Note I run in python's virtual env to control versions. So virPath below is the full path to the bin dir where I put the selenium server jar file
#! /bin/bash
virPath="$(echo $PATH | cut -f 1 -d':')"
java -jar ${virPath}/selenium-server.jar \
-role hub \
>/tmp/selenium_server_hub.log 2>&1 &
sleep 3
java -jar ${virPath}/selenium-server.jar \
-role node \
-hub http://localhost:4444/grid/register \
-maxSession 10 \
-browser browserName=chrome,maxInstances=10 \
>/tmp/selenium_server_node.log 2>&1 &
Running Robot tests
When I want to run Robot tests using the remote server I pass in flags to pybot:
--variable Use Selenium Server:True
--variable Selenium Server URL:http://localhost:4444/wd/hub
I have a number of keywords to open the brower based on my env but eventually it gets down to these:
Open Chrome Browser to Page
| | [Documentation]
| | ... | Opens Google Chrome to a given web page using Create Webdriver so
| | ... | arguments can be passed to webdriver in the form of capabilities.
| | ... | For more information on what capabilities that Google Chrome
| | ... | supports, see [http://chromedriver.chromium.org/capabilities] and
| | ... | [https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/]
| | ... |
| | ... | Webdriver can be run remotely using the selenium remote server.
| | ... | This can be done in 'Grid' mode with both a Hub server and
| | ... | Node servers where the tests are route to by the Hub to be run.
| | ... | See run_tests.sh for options to use this feature.
| | [Arguments] | ${url} |
| | ${ws}= | Set Variable | window-size=1080,1080 |
| | ${chrome_options}= | Evaluate | sys.modules['selenium.webdriver'].ChromeOptions() | sys |
| | Call Method | ${chrome_options} | add_argument | disable-infobars |
| | Call Method | ${chrome_options} | add_argument | test-type |
| | Call Method | ${chrome_options} | add_argument | disable-extensions |
| | Call Method | ${chrome_options} | add_argument | ignore-certificate-errors |
| | Call Method | ${chrome_options} | add_argument | allow-insecure-localhost |
| | Call Method | ${chrome_options} | add_argument | disable-browser-side-navigation |
| | Call Method | ${chrome_options} | add_argument | ${ws} |
| | Run Keyword If | ${Use Chrome Headless} |
| | ... | Call Method | ${chrome_options} | add_argument | headless |
| | Run Keyword If | ${Use Selenium Server} |
| | ... | Create Remote Chrome Webdriver | ${chrome_options} |
| | ... | ELSE | Create Local Chrome Webdriver | ${chrome_options} |
| | Go To | ${url} |
Create Remote Chrome Webdriver
| | [Arguments] | ${chrome options} |
| | Comment | Convert webdriver options to capabilities for Selenium server |
| | ${options}= | Call Method | ${chrome_options} | to_capabilities |
| | ${status} | ${resp}= | Run Keyword And Ignore Error |
| | ... | Create Webdriver | Remote | command_executor=${Selenium Server URL} | desired_capabilities=${options}
| | Run Keyword If | '${status}'=='FAIL' | Fail | Could not connect to Selenium Server. Is it up?\nError: ${resp} |
Create Local Chrome Webdriver
| | [Arguments] | ${chrome options} |
| | ${status} | ${resp}= | Run Keyword And Ignore Error |
| | ... | Create Webdriver | Chrome | chrome_options=${chrome_options} |
| | Run Keyword If | '${status}'=='FAIL' | Fail | Could not start browser. Are tests being run locally?\nError: ${resp} |
Tool Versions
Robot env requires a lot of different packages so I have a bash script to list all that I use:
Tool | Version | Path
-------------+--------------------+-------------------------------------
Linux Dist | Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS | NA
Linux Kernel | 4.4.0-116-generic | NA
Git commit | 9d7739b | NA
Virtualenv | 15.0.1 | /usr/bin/virtualenv
Python | 2.7.12 | /home/bm/devel/work/rf/bin/python
RF | 3.0.2 | /home/bm/devel/work/rf/bin/pybot
RF Selenium | 3.1.0 | /home/bm/devel/work/rf/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Selenium | 3.9.0 | /home/bm/devel/work/rf/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Requests | 2.18.4 | /home/bm/devel/work/rf/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Easysnmp | 0.2.5 | /home/bm/devel/work/rf/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Poster | 0.8.1 | /home/bm/devel/work/rf/lib/python2.7/site-packages
Chrome | 65.0.3325.181 | /usr/bin/google-chrome
chromedriver | 2.35.528139 | /home/bm/devel/work/rf/bin/chromedriver
Firefox | 59.0.2 | /usr/bin/firefox
Geckodriver | 0.19.1 | /home/bm/devel/work/rf/bin/geckodriver
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