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user2365105
user2365105

Reputation: 335

How selenium webdriver is maintaining separate session for each run?

For example in gmail login, when we consider a login test, when doing it manually for the first time we'll get the login page, from next time onwards we'll be directly getting into the inbox page.

If you try to do the same thing in webdriver(Run login test twice), in all these attempts we'll get the login page as we didn't login from this machine earlier. What is happening in behind the scenes in maintaining the session with respect to cookies or session ?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3247

Answers (1)

Juned Ahsan
Juned Ahsan

Reputation: 68715

Here is the description & code snippet from selenium docs to add or remove cookies:

Before we leave these next steps, you may be interested in understanding how to use cookies. First of all, you need to be on the domain that the cookie will be valid for. If you are trying to preset cookies before you start interacting with a site and your homepage is large / takes a while to load an alternative is to find a smaller page on the site, typically the 404 page is small (http://example.com/some404page)

// Go to the correct domain
driver.get("http://www.example.com");

// Now set the cookie. This one's valid for the entire domain
Cookie cookie = new Cookie("key", "value");
driver.manage().addCookie(cookie);

// And now output all the available cookies for the current URL
Set<Cookie> allCookies = driver.manage().getCookies();
for (Cookie loadedCookie : allCookies) {
    System.out.println(String.format("%s -> %s", loadedCookie.getName(), loadedCookie.getValue()));
}

// You can delete cookies in 3 ways
// By name
driver.manage().deleteCookieNamed("CookieName");
// By Cookie
driver.manage().deleteCookie(loadedCookie);
// Or all of them
driver.manage().deleteAllCookies();

Upvotes: 2

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