bug: appium 2.0.0-beta53 seems to ignore appium:options object

[radoslaw-karasinski-sauce]

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Current Behavior

derivedDataPath and usePrebuiltWDA setting seems to be ignored in appium 2.0.0-beta53 - xcodebuild test-without-building call doesn't use provided values.

Appium 2.0.0-beta53 seems to also ignore other caps provided in appium:options, i.e. connectHardwareKeyboard. This method was working for 2.0.0-beta44.

Appium beta53 CLI call: Appium command is: /Volumes/Sauce/selenium/appium-v2.0.0-beta53/node-darwin --max_old_space_size=1024 /Volumes/Sauce/selenium/appium-v2.0.0-beta53 --log-timestamp --callback-address 127.0.0.1 --address 127.0.0.1 --port 4443 --log-no-colors --default-capabilities {"appium:options": {"usePrebuiltWDA": true, "preventWDAAttachments": true, "orientation": "PORTRAIT", "launchTimeout": 180000, "showIOSLog": false, "noReset": true, "eventTimings": true, "backendRetries": 4, "derivedDataPath": "/Volumes/Sauce/wda/wda-v2.0.0-beta53-xcode13.0/WebDriverAgent/DerivedData/WebdriverAgent", "bootstrapPath": "/Volumes/Sauce/wda/wda-v2.0.0-beta53-xcode13.0/WebDriverAgent", "maxTypingFrequency": 8, "newCommandTimeout": 0, "connectHardwareKeyboard": true, "simulatorPasteboardAutomaticSync": "on", "app": "/var/folders/z9/rg8m2_gs5yq64gd5h71df2cc0000kr/T/tmpC2WXHT/TestApp7.2.app.zip", "keepKeyChains": true}} --relaxed-security --base-path /wd/hub

Appium beta44 CLI call: Appium command is: /Volumes/Sauce/selenium/appium-v2.0.0-beta44-separate-homes/node-darwin --max_old_space_size=1024 /Volumes/Sauce/selenium/appium-v2.0.0-beta44-separate-homes --log-timestamp --callback-address 127.0.0.1 --address 127.0.0.1 --port 4443 --log-no-colors --default-capabilities {"appium:options": {"usePrebuiltWDA": true, "preventWDAAttachments": true, "orientation": "PORTRAIT", "launchTimeout": 180000, "showIOSLog": false, "noReset": true, "eventTimings": true, "backendRetries": 4, "derivedDataPath": "/Volumes/Sauce/wda/wda-v2.0.0-beta44-xcode14.0/WebDriverAgent/DerivedData/WebdriverAgent", "maxTypingFrequency": 8, "newCommandTimeout": 0, "connectHardwareKeyboard": true, "simulatorPasteboardAutomaticSync": "on", "app": "/var/folders/z9/rg8m2_gs5yq64gd5h71df2cc0000kr/T/tmpkPWe1U/TestApp7.2.app.zip", "keepKeyChains": true}} --relaxed-security --base-path /wd/hub

Expected Behavior

Appium should use provided derivedDataPath to pass it to xcodebuild test-without-building call.

Minimal Reproducible Example

Start any session with derivedDataPath and usePrebuiltWDA inside appium:options caps.

Environment

All informations in attached gist.

Link to Appium Logs

https://gist.github.com/radoslaw-karasinski-sauce/3bac813bf3080f05cae22cd15ff0a8e7

Futher Information

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[jlipps]

this should be fixed in the next release. previously there was no intentional support for using appium:options together with --default-capabilities; it only worked accidentally! (though of course it should be possible to combine these features). the reason it regressed is because we changed where appium:options was processed to fix another issue. now we have tests for both cases to prevent further regressions.