Functional Tests with Grails, Geb & PhantomJS not working - grails

Question

I am running Spock tests with Gebish & HtmlUnitDriver. So far so good.
For reasons of speed I am changing the driver to PhantomJS: http://phantomjs.org/
my GebConfigs.groovy looks like this:
import org.openqa.selenium.phantomjs.PhantomJSDriver
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver
import org.openqa.selenium.Dimension
driver {
ArrayList cliArgsCap = new ArrayList();
cliArgsCap.add("--web-security=false");
cliArgsCap.add("--ssl-protocol=any");
cliArgsCap.add("--ignore-ssl-errors=true");
DesiredCapabilities desiredCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities()
desiredCapabilities.setCapability(PhantomJSDriverService.PHANTOMJS_CLI_ARGS, cliArgsCap);
PhantomJSDriver d = new PhantomJSDriver(desiredCapabilities)
d
}
as you see, no matter what a PhantomJSDriver should be used for tests.
my BuildConfig.groovy
test "org.gebish:geb-spock:$gebVersion"
test "org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-chrome-driver:$seleniumVersion"
test "org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-remote-driver:$seleniumVersion"
test "org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-htmlunit-driver:$seleniumVersion"
test "org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-support:$seleniumVersion"
test "org.spockframework:spock-grails-support:0.7-groovy-2.0"
test "org.grails:grails-datastore-test-support:1.0-grails-2.4"
test( "com.github.detro.ghostdriver:phantomjsdriver:1.1.0" ) {
transitive = false
}
the phantomjs.exe is located in:
C:\Apps\selenium\phantomjs\phantomjs.exe
and C:\Apps\selenium\phantomjs is in my PATH. i can run it through cmd: phantomjs in interactive mode.
problem
for some unclear reason geb is still using a HtmlUnitDriver. see log:
Error |
2014-08-15 14:01:26,630 [JS executor for com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient#527a4013] ERROR
javascript.StrictErrorReporter - runtimeError: message=[The data necessary to complete this
operation is not yet available.] sourceName=[http://localhost:8080/myapp/aui/js/aui-all.js] line=
[1] lineSource=[null] lineOffset=[0]
any ideas why phantomjsdriver is not used in this case?

Answer 1

I have phantomjs up and running with a Grails 2.0.4 app. My buildConfig.groovy looks like this:
def gebVersion = "0.9.2"
def seleniumVersion = "2.35.0"
...
test "org.gebish:geb-spock:$gebVersion"
test "org.gebish:geb-junit4:$gebVersion"
test( "com.github.detro.ghostdriver:phantomjsdriver:1.0.1" ) {
transitive = false
exclude "xml-apis"
exclude "xercesImpl"
}
test ("org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-remote-driver:$seleniumVersion") { // Needed by phantomjsdriver
exclude "xerces"
exclude "xercesImpl"
}
hope that helps
Update: had to work a little bit on my own example, but the result is a working Grails 2.4.2 app with phantomjs: https://github.com/rdmueller/SO25324259 (sorry for the horrible formatting - only saw it after my checkin).
btw: I didn't get your DesiredCapabilities to work :-(
PS: did you know the report feature? https://github.com/rdmueller/SO25324259/blob/master/test/functional/DemoSpec.groovy#L14
It takes a screenshot with your headless phantomjs browser - really cool feature!