NEWS.md

In RSelenium: R Bindings for 'Selenium WebDriver'

RSelenium 1.7.9

• Remove images in vignettes (addressing #260)
• Remove dependency on Rcompression (addressing #251 #256)
• Remove the defunct functions: phantom, checkForServer, and startServer
• Use caTools::base64decode instead of openssl::base64_decode to decode the base64 encoded PNG screenshot

RSelenium 1.7.7

• Moved testing to GitHub Actions

RSelenium 1.7.6

• No functional changes in this version (need to re-submit to CRAN for being archived)
• Fixed typos in vignettes and documentation
• Styled the package with styler package following the tidyverse formatting rules

RSelenium 1.7.5

• Fix switchToWindow issue in fiefox (#143)
• Add a tutorial to allow running RSelenium Tests in Internet Explorer (thanks @zappingseb #193)
• Updated vignettes and documentation

RSelenium 1.7.4

• executeScript now passes a dummy argument
• Defunct phantom() function
• Updated unit tests and test environment
• Updated vignettes and documentation

RSelenium 1.7.3

• Address issue with user/pass credentials being exposed using SauceLabs (thanks @jstockwin #131)
• Cache packages on TRAVIS to reduce runtime (thanks @jstockwin #132)

RSelenium 1.7.2

• Fixed issue where rsDriver client when failing to open didn't catch error
• Correctly pass the check argument in rsDriver to wdman (thanks @bourdieu #123)

RSelenium 1.7.1

• Fixed issue where rsDriver was not passing additional arguments via ...
• Fixed issue with rsDriver and Win/Firefox
• serverURL field in remoteDriver class is now set in initialize method

RSelenium 1.7.0

• Basic vignette update with appendix on using rsDriver
• Print method added for environment returned by rsDriver
• Default PhantomJS version switched to 2.1.1 (2.5.0-beta has old version of ghostdriver)

RSelenium 1.6.6

• phantom is marked as deprecated. To drive PhantomJS via selenium use the rsDriver function. To drive directly use wdman::phantomjs

RSelenium 1.6.5

• checkForServer and startServer are now defunct. rsDriver is marked as a dual replacement. Docker is recommended to run a selenium server/browser.

RSelenium 1.6.4

• Add a rsDriver function to return a Selenium/webdriver server and a browser client.

RSelenium 1.6.3

• Return a selected value with the selectTag method.

RSelenium 1.6.1

• Added a selectTag method to the webElement class see #108.
• RSelenium Basics vignette was updated/revised.

RSelenium 1.6.0

• Moved http package from RCurl to httr see #106.
• Removed dependence on rjson. httr incorporates jsonlite.
• Import base64_decode from openssl.
• Fixed issue with attributes.Selenium not firing error see #109

RSelenium 1.5.1

• Added a path argument to the remoteDriver class.

RSelenium 1.4.9

• Fix .DollarNames to correct issues running under recent RStudio version.

RSelenium 1.4.8

• Added tests for executeScript
• Fixed issue in executeScript/executeAsyncScript with returning nested web elements

RSelenium 1.4.7

• Code tidied up
• statCodes added as an internal data.frame
• tidy up imports. importFrom instead of import

RSelenium 1.4.6

• Replace calls to cat with message when error

RSelenium 1.4.5

• Use canonical form for referring to r-project

RSelenium 1.4.4

• Deprecate startServer and checkForServer (look at processx to manage process)
• Use message rather than print (thanks Dean Attali #88) in checkForServer. Fix typo in startServer (thanks Charles Thompson #85)
• Copy startServer and checkForServer to examples/serverUtils

RSelenium 1.4.3

• Moved testing to TRAVIS
• Switch to rjson from RJSONIO as issue with RJSONIO and TRAVIS/covr
• Ported api tests to TRAVIS

RSelenium 1.4.2

• Add vignette on RSelenium and Docker containers.

RSelenium 1.4.1

• Add option to pass arguments to JVM in startServer.
• In startServer look for multiple copies of selenium binary in selDIR
• Make renaming selenium binary optional in checkForServer
• Add option to download beta releases in checkForServer

RSelenium 1.4.0

• startServer utility function now returns a list of function; getpid returns the process id of the started server, the stop function stops the started server using the process id. Thanks to Dan Tenenbaum #67 and Toby Dylan Hocking #72

RSelenium 1.3.7

• Add fix for multiple/Beta JARS in checkForServer (Thanks Dean Attali #79)
• Update reference for Selenium download (Thanks @mnel)

RSelenium 1.3.6

• Allow passing of system2 arguments in startServer utility function

RSelenium 1.3.4

• Fix custom path not being passed correctly to phantom utility function.
• Allowing passing of commandline arguments via utility function startServer.

RSelenium 1.3.3

• Add utility function makeFirefoxProfile (Thanks Shan Huang #24)
• Fix phantom utility function for OSX (Thanks Carson Sievert #25)

RSelenium 1.3.2

• Methods now fail with errors if the server returns an error related status code. Summary and Detail of the error are outputted as well as the associated java class.
• Add a phantom utility function to enable driving of phantomjs in webdriver mode independent of Selenium Server.
• Fixed file paths in startServer for windows (Thanks @mnel #22)

RSelenium 1.3.0

• Add the content from OC-RUG webinar as a vignette.
• Update the Driving OS/Browsers local and remote vignette.

RSelenium 1.2.5

• Update reference classes to use @field and inline docstrings for methods
• Allow partial string matching on the using argument of the findElement and findElements method from the remoteDriver class.
• Allow partial string matching on the using argument of the findChildElement and findChildElements method from the webElement class.

RSelenium 1.2.4

• Add getLogtypes() and log(type) methods to remoteDriver class
• Fix getFirefoxProfile so useBase = TRUE works under windows.
• Add additional support for encoding (thanks to Nicola Logrillo issue #16)
• Add file argument to screenshot method in remoteDriver class to allow writing screenshot to file
• Add a getChromeProfile utility function.

RSelenium 1.2.3

• Add option to display screenshot in viewer panel if using RStudio

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