[LR] APP robot capabilities on JSON file

[ittaLaRedoute]

Hello, Currently Cerberus manage robot capabilities for the application (Appium and Selenium) based on invariants (then the JSON file creation is managed by Cerberus). On version Cerberus 4.17, the following JSON file is generated:

{
  "FinalCapabilities": {
        (…)
    },
  "RequestedCapabilities": {
        (…)
  }
}

This has some limitation because, in the case of Appium, the capabilities has evolved and the current expected JSON file as some differences (and some capabilities are not applied currently): https://appium.io/docs/en/2.4/guides/settings/#

Would it be possible to have instead a JSON field to define the capabilities? This would work also with Selenium and could help the implementation of Cerberus to Appium 2.0

[vertigo17]

Not sure why you mention the Robot.json file generated by Cerberus. That file is generated on the execution in order to 1/ keep a trace of the capabilities asked by the user inside the robot and 2/ provide the information of what are the real capabilities provided to Selenium/Appium for debug purpose.

I understand that what you would like is more to: feed the capabilities from a JSON file rather than a GUI ?

That will require to adapt this modal:

Correct ?

I don't see any limitation on feeding that from a key/value GUI controled screen. Can you be more precise on those ?

The complexity of replacing GUI by a free json file is that it make that definition more risky as format will have to be mastered by the user and list of capabilities no longer proposed from the invariant list. This is to me less user friendly and risky for functional users.