webdriverio: timeouts('implicit', 5000) returns "Error: Remote end send an unknown status code"

[sanjeethmallesh]

System

• Version: 0.23.0
• Platform: Windows
• Firefox: 63.0.1
• Selenium: 3.9.0
• nodeJS: v8.9.4
• webdriverio: 4.12.0

Testcase

On webdriverIO, for the statement browser.timeouts('implicit', 5000); the response is "Error: Remote end send an unknown status code"
http://webdriver.io/guide/testrunner/timeouts.html
same goes to browser.timeouts('script', 60000);, browser.timeouts('pageLoad', 10000);

Stacktrace

[firefox #0-0] unknown field ms, expected one of implicit, pageLoad, script at line 1 column 5
Build info: version: '3.9.0', revision: '698b3178f0', time: '2018-02-05T14:56:13.134Z'
System info: host: 'XXXX', ip: 'XX.XX.XX.XX', os.name: 'Windows 10', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '10.0', java.version: '1.8.0_181'
Driver info: driver.version: unknown
[firefox #0-0] Error: Remote end send an unknown status code.
[firefox #0-0] at timeouts("implicit", 5000) - at D:\XXX\node_modules\wdio-sync\build\index.js:316:3
[firefox #0-0]
error Command failed with exit code 1.

[andreastt]

It’s hard to tell without an overview of the wire calls made by webdriverio (a trace-level log from geckodriver), but this is likely a problem in webdriverio and not geckodriver.

[whimboo]

The problem is that you are using the webdriverio timeouts API incorrectly. Two arguments only work for the non-spec variant of the driver, which geckodriver doesn't support.

[whimboo]

Btw I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507283 for a possible more relaxed deserialization.

[andreastt]

See also #1422 (comment) that a specification change is required.

[whimboo]

This is actually a dupe of issue #1422. So lets continue the discussion on that other issue.

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