TypeError: Preferences.getString

[ayyobro]

Got the error: TypeError: Preferences.getString whenever I try to export a script from the se-builder.

Here's the steps:

1. open firefox
2. start up the se-builder plugin
3. enter in test url ( currently using a localhost )
4. Click through the steps I want in the form ( se-builder is building the script just fine it seems at this point )
5. Stop Recording
6. Click File
7. Click Export
8. Click Newrelic WebJS ( or something of the rather ), which was the option specified in the 'how-to'

After that, I get the error. Here's the script I pasted into synthetics ( i was able to export to github just fine once I connected that account to selenium ):

/**

• Generated script for New Relic Synthetics
• Generated using se-builder with New Relic Synthetics Formatter *
• Welcome to the Synthetics JavaScript IDE - Browser Edition
• You can think of it like node.js lite. Everything you'd expect to find in a
• node.js environment is also available here, with a few notable exceptions: *
• - 'require' is limited to a useful subset of modules, get the full list from
• https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/synthetics/new-relic-synthetics/scripting-monitors/writing-scripted-browsers *
• - We've added a few top-level vars to the scope, all starting with '$': *
• $browser - Synthetics-flavored WebDriver session for browser automation
• $driver - Main WebDriver public API module
• $http - 'request' node.js module (for making HTTP requests)
• $util - Common tools to aid with grunt work *
• Feel free to explore, or check out the full documentation for details:
• https://docs.newrelic.com/docs/synthetics/new-relic-synthetics/scripting-monitors/writing-scripted-browsers */

/\ CONFIGURATIONS **/

// Script-wide timeout for wait and waitAndFind functions (in ms) var DefaultTimeout = 10000; // Change to any User Agent you want to use. // Leave as "default" or empty to use the Synthetics default. var UserAgent = "default";

/\ HELPER FUNCTIONS **/

var assert = require('assert'), By = $driver.By, startTime = new Date(), thisStep = 0, VARS = {}; var log = function(msg) { var elapsedSecs = (new Date() - startTime) / 1000.0; console.log('Step ' + thisStep + ': ' + elapsedSecs.toFixed(1) + 's: ' + msg); thisStep++; }; // 1st log is sometimes ignored for some reason, so this is a dummy log('init'); function isAlertPresent() { try { var thisAlert = $browser.switchTo().alert(); return true; } catch (err) { return false; } } function isElementSelected(el) { return $browser.findElement(el).isSelected(); } function isTextPresentIn(text, sourceEl) { return sourceEl.getText() .then(function (wholetext) { log("Assert Text Present: '" + text +"'"); assert.notEqual(wholetext.indexOf(text), -1, "Text Not Found: '" + text + "'"); }); }

function isTextPresent(text) { return isTextPresentIn(text, $browser.findElement(By.tagName('html'))); }

/\ BEGINNING OF SCRIPT **/

// Setting User Agent is not then-able, so we do this first (if defined and not default) if ((typeof UserAgent !== 'undefined') && (UserAgent != 'default')) { $browser.addHeader('User-Agent', UserAgent); log('Setting User-Agent to ' + UserAgent); }

// Get browser capabilities and do nothing with it, so that we start with a then-able command $browser.getCapabilities().then(function () { })

.then(function () { log('get "http://localhost:8000/twenty-sixteen-conference"'); return $browser.get("http://localhost:8000/twenty-sixteen-conference"); })

.then(function () { log('setElementText "company_name"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.name("company_name"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function (el) { el.clear(); el.sendKeys("Nick Company 1"); })

.then(function () { log('setElementText "company_address"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.name("company_address"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function (el) { el.clear(); el.sendKeys("123 Whatever Drive"); })

.then(function () { log('setElementText "company_city"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.name("company_city"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function (el) { el.clear(); el.sendKeys("Indianapolis"); })

.then(function () { log('setElementSelected "//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[4]/div/select//option[1]"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[4]/div/select//option[1]"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function(el) { return el.isSelected(); }) .then(function(bool) { if (!bool) { $browser.actions().click($browser.findElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[4]/div/select//option[1]"))).perform(); } })

.then(function () { log('setElementSelected "//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[4]/div/select//option[15]"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[4]/div/select//option[15]"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function(el) { return el.isSelected(); }) .then(function(bool) { if (!bool) { $browser.actions().click($browser.findElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[4]/div/select//option[15]"))).perform(); } })

.then(function () { log('setElementSelected "//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[4]/div/select//option[15]"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[4]/div/select//option[15]"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function(el) { return el.isSelected(); }) .then(function(bool) { if (!bool) { $browser.actions().click($browser.findElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[4]/div/select//option[15]"))).perform(); } })

.then(function () { log('setElementSelected "//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[4]/div/select//option[15]"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[4]/div/select//option[15]"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function(el) { return el.isSelected(); }) .then(function(bool) { if (!bool) { $browser.actions().click($browser.findElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[4]/div/select//option[15]"))).perform(); } })

.then(function () { log('setElementText "company_zip"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.name("company_zip"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function (el) { el.clear(); el.sendKeys("46237"); })

.then(function () { log('setElementText "company_website"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.name("company_website"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function (el) { el.clear(); el.sendKeys("http"); })

.then(function () { log('setElementText "company_website"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.name("company_website"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function (el) { el.clear(); el.sendKeys("http://b-y.net"); })

.then(function () { log('setElementSelected "//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[8]/div/select//option[1]"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[8]/div/select//option[1]"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function(el) { return el.isSelected(); }) .then(function(bool) { if (!bool) { $browser.actions().click($browser.findElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[8]/div/select//option[1]"))).perform(); } })

.then(function () { log('setElementSelected "//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[8]/div/select//option[3]"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[8]/div/select//option[3]"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function(el) { return el.isSelected(); }) .then(function(bool) { if (!bool) { $browser.actions().click($browser.findElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[8]/div/select//option[3]"))).perform(); } })

.then(function () { log('setElementSelected "//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[9]/div/select//option[2]"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[9]/div/select//option[2]"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function(el) { return el.isSelected(); }) .then(function(bool) { if (!bool) { $browser.actions().click($browser.findElement(By.xpath("//div[1]/form[1]/div[1]/div/div[2]/fieldset/div[1]/div[9]/div/select//option[2]"))).perform(); } })

.then(function () { log('setElementText "conference_contact_name"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.name("conference_contact_name"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function (el) { el.clear(); el.sendKeys("Nick Tester"); })

.then(function () { log('setElementText "conference_contact_email"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.name("conference_contact_email"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function (el) { el.clear(); el.sendKeys("nickconf1@gmail.com"); })

.then(function () { log('setElementText "attendee_one_name"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.name("attendee_one_name"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function (el) { el.clear(); el.sendKeys("Nick Bester"); })

.then(function () { log('setElementText "attendee_one_email"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.name("attendee_one_email"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function (el) { el.clear(); el.sendKeys("besttester@gmail.com"); })

.then(function () { log('clickElement "input.btn.btn-primary-green"'); return $browser.waitForAndFindElement(By.css("input.btn.btn-primary-green"), DefaultTimeout); }) .then(function (el) { $browser.actions().click(el).perform(); })

.then(function() { log('Browser script execution SUCCEEDED.'); }, function(err) { log ('Browser script execution FAILED.'); throw(err); });

/\ END OF SCRIPT **/

Here is also the error log that I got back from synthetics on newrelic.com: Step 0: 0.0s: init Step 1: 0.0s: get "http://localhost:8000/twenty-sixteen-conference" Step 2: 0.1s: setElementText "company_name" Step 3: 10.2s: Browser script execution FAILED. Error: Timed-out waiting for element to be located using: By.name("company_name") Wait timed out after 10042ms at /opt/minion/nodemodules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:1630:20 at promise.ControlFlow.runInFrame (/opt/minion/nodemodules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:1877:20) at promise.Callback.goog.defineClass.notify (/opt/minion/nodemodules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:2464:25) at promise.Promise.notify (/opt/minion/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:563:12) at Array.forEach (native) at Object.goog.array.forEach (/opt/minion/nodemodules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/array/array.js:203:43) at promise.Promise.notifyAll (/opt/minion/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:552:16) at goog.async.run.processWorkQueue (/opt/minion/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/async/run.js:125:21) at runMicrotasksCallback (node.js:337:7) at process._tickCallback (node.js:355:11) From: Task: Timed-out waiting for element to be located using: By.name("company_name") at promise.ControlFlow.wait (/opt/minion/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:1617:15) at webdriver.WebDriver.wait (/opt/minion/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/webdriver.js:714:21) at syntheticsDriverPrototype.waitForElement.value as waitForElement at syntheticsDriverPrototype.waitForAndFindElement.value as waitForAndFindElement at eval (eval at (/opt/minion/nodemodules/synthetics-runner/lib/resource/job-resource.js:387:19), :85:19) at promise.ControlFlow.runInFrame (/opt/minion/nodemodules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:1877:20) at promise.Callback.goog.defineClass.notify (/opt/minion/nodemodules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:2464:25) at promise.Promise.notify (/opt/minion/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:563:12) at Array.forEach (native) at Object.goog.array.forEach (/opt/minion/nodemodules/selenium-webdriver/lib/goog/array/array.js:203:43) at promise.Promise.notifyAll (/opt/minion/node_modules/selenium-webdriver/lib/webdriver/promise.js:552:16)

[sschwartzman]

I think this is a question for my plugin rather than the se-builder package, so you can close this here and open it in my repo: https://github.com/sschwartzman/newrelic-synthetics-sebuilder/issues

Thanks, Seth

[sschwartzman]

On second thought, this is 2 separate issues. The "Preferences.getString" one is unrelated to the output you see the "timeout error". According to @ayyobro, he sees this "Preferences.getString" error no matter what formate he's exporting in, so it's not related to my plugin. Is that something you guys can help him with?

Thanks and sorry for the confusion, Seth

[Zarkonnen]

AFAIK this is a bug that got fixed in v2.3.3. Can you check you're all the way up to date?

[buch0090]

I have same issue, just installed yesterday from the latest xpi (http://www.saucelabs.com/addons/selenium-builder-latest.xpi). I'm unable to save or export my script. It does allow me to run it via "OnSauce demand". What should we do?

[sschwartzman]

@Zarkonnen I installed the latest xpi and encountered the same issue. Now I'm stuck. Can we downgrade to older .xpi? Where can they be found?

[sschwartzman]

It appears that the "latest" xpi link points to 2.3.1 - I've tried blowing away my plugin install and reinstalling from that xpi. To get around it, I cloned the repo, and copied the "seleniumbuilder" folder to the firefox extensions directory as "seleniumbuilder@saucelabs.com". @ayyobro @buch0090

[Zarkonnen]

Just had a look at this, there's two related problems:

• Sauce's latest version download is indeed out of date. I've asked them to update it. You can download the most recent XPI from http://www.sebuilder.com/
• Firefox seems to be... relaxed at checking for addon updates. If you go into about:addons, you can right-click on the entry for Builder and make it look for updates. If you're currently on 2.3.1, you'll want to do two cycles of force update-restart to get to 2.3.3, which works properly on Firefox 38.

Sorry for the inconvenience!