Unable to run even a basic test about panther HOT 2 OPEN

I wonder if you need to use Client::createSeleniumClient()? I would guess that the browser-specific static methods are for the WebDriver implementation, not Selenium.

from panther.

FWIW, I have set up a remote Geckodriver instance (instrumentisto/geckodriver) instead of Selenium and that seems to work well. However Panther had to rather be hacked to get it to work:

• I use a custom FirefoxManager as I needed it not to be final
• Some of the private properties in the above class needed to be switched to protected
• I extended the above class to overwrite start(), so that the browser process start is skipped (it is permanently running in another container)

I will stick with what I have, but it is not great code. The authors of Panther really did not want it to be extended in this fashion! Perhaps I will submit an improvement request, so that this can be done in a more elegant way.

Now that I look at it afresh, it might have been easier just to copy FirefoxManager and amend the start() method in situ. Still not a nice solution though.

For now, if you want to run your browser as a separate container, using Selenium probably is the most straightforward way.

from panther.