How to register webdriver/actor for current running test?

[MHamzaY-E]

I am creating actors during the runtime during a junit test. For these actors screenshots do not appear in the report. From what I have found is that I got to use

@Managed
WebDriver driver;

inside the test class. As the serenity runner initializes and uses this driver to get screenshots. But I do not know how many actors will be created during runtime. So I am creating actors in the code without predefining them in the main test class.

How can I register drivers of the dynamically created actors ? I have tried this

ThucydidesWebDriverSupport.getWebdriverManager().registerDriver(BrowseTheWeb.as(actor).getDriver());

as the code inside the registerDriver method kinda suggests that it registers the driver to current test.

@Override
   public void registerDriver(WebDriver driver) {
       if (driver != null) {
           inThisTestThread().registerDriverCalled(nameOf(driver)).forDriver(driver);
           inThisTestThread().setCurrentDriverTo(driver);
       }
   }

But it did not work. So how can I pass the webdriver/actors to current test so it can take the screenshots.

[globalworming]

Just out of curiosity, why don't you know how many actors you need?

I am pretty sure you problem disappears when you get your actors from a new OnlineCast()

[wakaleo]

As @globalworming says, try using an OnlineCast

[MHamza-Y]

As @globalworming says, try using an OnlineCast

I tried this before using managed driver,

OnStage.setTheStage(new OnlineCast());
Actor actor = OnStage.theActorCalled("James");

I declared this inside a junit rule called SetTheStage . In the test I am calling this and some other rules.

public SetTheStage stage = new SetTheStage("James");

public LoginToXXXXX login = new LoginToXXXXX();

public NavigationRule navigationRule = new NavigationRule(XXXXXpage.class);

@Rule
public TestRule chain = RuleChain.outerRule(stage).around(login).around(navigationRule);

Inside my test script

givenThat(theActorInTheSpotlight()).wasAbleTo(...);

And for the part where I create actors during runtime. I am calling OnStage.theActorCalled(<some name>)
The code works fine. But no screenshots are recorded. For both the actor James and dynamically created ones with OnlineCast

[MHamza-Y]

Just out of curiosity, why don't you know how many actors you need?

I am pretty sure you problem disappears when you get your actors from a new OnlineCast()

My script creates n instances of something. Each Instance have its own IP. I have to open each IP address in the browser and verify something.

[wakaleo]

@rules are going to be outside of the Serenity/Screenplay lifecycle I suspect (they will depend on the JUnit runner). Why not just put this logic in a @before method?

[MHamza-Y]

@rules are going to be outside of the Serenity/Screenplay lifecycle I suspect (they will depend on the JUnit runner). Why not just put this logic in a @before method?

This way I can make many reusable rules and chain them up. The advantage would be flexibility. Instead of making separate base classes for each small group of tests with slight setup variations. Also it would follow composition over inheritance rule.

[wakaleo]

Rules are managed outside the Serenity lifecycle so there is no guarantee that they will work this way.