Automatic Appium launch and grid-node configuration on MAC OS

[RISHI_KHANNA]

Hi,

How can we automate appium launch on MAC OS?
Also, I wanted to start HUB and register grid on the HUB automatically.

On Windows I tried Automatic launch through ProcessBuilder class and HUB and grid configuration by creating .bat file and triggering those at run-time. Any way to do so on MAC??

[slipy12]

What I did is a bash file. Detect how many devices I have and their name.
Launch the hub.
Launch an appium node and a client for each device. (Nodes require a .json file)(nodes and clients must be connected through the same port)
I hope it helps you

[RISHI_KHANNA]

Hi,

Even I am following the same approach but I am unable to launch the appium programmatically. On windows same happen without any issue but on MAC OS its not launching appium.
I was trying this code on MAC:

CommandLine command = new CommandLine("/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node");
command.addArgument("/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/build/lib/appium.js", false);
command.addArgument("--address", false);
command.addArgument("0.0.0.0");
command.addArgument("--port", false);
command.addArgument("4723");
command.addArgument("--no-reset", false);
DefaultExecuteResultHandler resultHandler = new DefaultExecuteResultHandler();
DefaultExecutor executor = new DefaultExecutor();
executor.setExitValue(1);
executor.execute(command, resultHandler);

Even I tried with ProcessBuilder class. But no success

[slipy12]

It seems that you are launching command line commands from your code isn't it? Seems interesting, because I did a very big bash file because I didn't know that something like that was possible...

I think it's better trying to launch appium server programmatically first alone and then make it working from the code (if it's what you are trying...)

[RISHI_KHANNA]

Yes thats what not happenning..launching appium server programmatically... I dont want to manually open terminal and give the node command.

[Free_Automation]

See this https://youtu.be/vXpskMkytD8