Unable to send desired capabilities to saucelabs

[horaceheaven]

I am unable to send desired capabilities to sauce labs. I would like to send it with the following command: Open Application ${REMOTE_URL} ${PLATFORM_NAME} ${PLATFORM_VERSION} ${DEVICE_NAME} ${APP}, but from looking at the documentation here ==> http://jollychang.github.io/robotframework-appiumlibrary/doc/AppimuLibrary.html#Open Application, i'm not seeing a way how to do so. The reason I need to send it, sauce labs requires me to specify the version of appium to use for app testing. Can you provide some insight into this, thanks.

[jollychang]

which version do you need?
I can't find version of appium from docs
http://appium.io/slate/en/v1.0.0/?python#server-flags

[horaceheaven]

I need version 1.3.x
Usually when doing browser testing on saucelabs, I send the desired capabilities in the following fashion:

Open Test Browser
    Open browser  ${APP_URL}/${QA_VERSION}/    ${BROWSER}
    ...  remote_url=${REMOTE_URL}
    ...  desired_capabilities=${DESIRED_CAPABILITIES}
    Maximize Browser Window

But for some reason when doing native app testing and passing the desired_capabilities to the api as shown above, saucelabs doesn't receive it in the correct format.

Open App
   Open Application    ${REMOTE_URL}    ${PLATFORM_NAME}    ${PLATFORM_VERSION}    ${DEVICE_NAME}    ${APP}
       ...  desired_capabilities=${DESIRED_CAPABILITIES}

desiredCapabilities: {"deviceName":"iPhone Simulator","takesScreenshot":"true","automationName":"desired_caps=appiumVersion: '1.3.3', app: 'sauce-storage:todo.zip', platformName: 'iOS', platformVersion: '8.1', deviceName: 'iPhone Simulator'","androidActivity":null,"appWaitPackage":null,"platformVersion":"8.1","appPackage":null,"platformName":"iOS","appWaitActivity":null,"bundleid":null}

Desired capabilities should be a key instead of a value.

[jollychang]

where is the doc?
you need "automationName":"desired_caps=appiumVersion: '1.3.3', ?

[horaceheaven]

https://docs.saucelabs.com/tutorials/appium/#appium-for-ios-on-sauce-labs
desiredCapabilities:{"appiumVersion": "1.3.3",...

[horaceheaven]

This might be useful as well ==> https://docs.saucelabs.com/reference/platforms-configurator/#/

[horaceheaven]

I'm seeing this error when running the scripts now ==> NameError: global name 'appium' is not defined

[jollychang]

Could you check with saucelab and open a pull request?

On 2014Äê12ÔÂ5ÈÕ, at 20:34, Horace Heaven notifications@github.com wrote:

I'm seeing this error when running the scripts now ==> NameError: global name 'appium' is not defined

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[horaceheaven]

It doesn't seem to be a sauce labs issue, seems like an issue with the new variable that was introduced in the pull you just made - appium-version.

[jollychang]

robotframework-appiumlibrary is for appium/ web driver, it 'a not for sauce labs.
You can debug and open a pull request for this.

On 2014Äê12ÔÂ5ÈÕ, at 21:42, Horace Heaven notifications@github.com wrote:

It doesn't seem to be a sauce labs issue, seems like an issue with the new variable that was introduced appium-version.

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