executeScript( 'mobile:startLogsBroadcast', )ĭriver. log( 'Connection closed, log streaming has stopped')ĭriver.

(And youll get the same message with respect to plugins). Use the 'appium driver' command to install the one (s) you want to use. The path is different though instead of /wd/hub the path starts with /ws: At this point, after installing Appium 2.x for the first time, if you run the server, youll get a line in the logs that looks something like this: Appium No drivers have been installed. driver.executeScript( 'mobile:startLogsBroadcast') Īppium will start a WebSocket server and accept connections on the same host and port to which you connected to start the test session. This is done using one of the special mobile: commands. Overall, this results in a better programming model for most cases, and only adds a little more code depending on the language.Īppium needs to be told to start its WebSocket server before we can begin listening for log messages. Rather than getting a chunk of recent log lines every time a synchronous call to getLogs() is made, you can assign a function to be called every time a new log line is generated. I recently wrote about how to access Android Logcat logs using the getLogs() command, but Appium also supports subscribing to device logs as a stream of events via a WebSocket connection.

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