Launching and stopping appium server programmtically

How can i start the server and stop it from ruby programmatically?

hey hi,
I am new to the appium i want to launch appium in ubuntu, want to know how to write test scripts..
any help would be very helpful.
thanks in advance.

There is no Appium Gui and Inspector for Ubuntu???

Hi,

I'm not sure about iOS devices as I'm able to run them on Mac's only, however you could install Android sdk's where you can use tools/uiautomatorviewer for getting more info about your Android app

HI,
i have already installed android sdk also i have develop my app to test , but want to know how to start appium with my app also want to how to write tests cases and to run tests on my app????

Hey, seems you are not in correct topic:-)
Please look around other topics on the discuss as this topic about exact problem - launch appium programatically

Hi,
i did all the mentioned setup. But when i try to launch appium from cmd by triggering the appium.js file i get a windows error. I even get the same error when i manually double click on the appium.js file.
But i am able to launch appium from the .exe file and run my tests on both physical device and emulators.
Am i doing anything wrong????

Please attach a screenshot of the error message or share your piece of code. Tell us more about what you are experiencing in order for us to be able to help you ...

P.S. Manually clicking the Appium.js file won't help at all

Please let me know Steps for MAC.
Thanks,
AJ.

Please provide your code snippet that led to this error??

Yah ...Here it is:

package SampleTest;

import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.exec.CommandLine;
import org.apache.commons.exec.DefaultExecuteResultHandler;
import org.apache.commons.exec.DefaultExecutor;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

import jxl.Workbook;
import jxl.read.biff.BiffException;

public class AppiumServer {

public void startServer(){
CommandLine command = new CommandLine("cmd");
command.addArgument("/c");
command.addArgument("D:\My_DEMO\Appium\Appium\node.exe");
command.addArgument("D:\My_DEMO\Appium\Appium\node_modules\appium\lib\appium.js");
command.addArgument("--address");
command.addArgument("127.0.0.1");
command.addArgument("--port");
command.addArgument("4724");
command.addArgument("--no-reset");
command.addArgument("--log");
command.addArgument("D:/appiumLogs.txt");
DefaultExecuteResultHandler resultHandler = new DefaultExecuteResultHandler();
DefaultExecutor executor = new DefaultExecutor();
executor.setExitValue(1);

try {
executor.execute(command, resultHandler);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}

public void stopServer(){

CommandLine command = new CommandLine("cmd");
command.addArgument("/c");
command.addArgument("taskkill");
command.addArgument("/F");
command.addArgument("/IM");
command.addArgument("node.exe");

DefaultExecuteResultHandler resultHandler = new DefaultExecuteResultHandler();
DefaultExecutor executor = new DefaultExecutor();
executor.setExitValue(1);

try {
executor.execute(command, resultHandler);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}

}

public static void main(String[] args) throws BiffException, IOException {
AppiumServer server=new AppiumServer();
System.out.println("---- Starting appium server ----");
server.startServer();
System.out.println("---- Appium server started Successfully ! ----");

try{Thread.sleep(10000);}catch(Exception e){}

System.out.println("---- Stoping appium server ----");
server.stopServer();
System.out.println("---- Appium server stopped Successfully ! ----");

}

}

Try putting your Appium files in C directory and give it another try.

tried....no Change..getting same Error...now Check this out plz...

package myBeepsTest;

import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.commons.exec.CommandLine;
import org.apache.commons.exec.DefaultExecuteResultHandler;
import org.apache.commons.exec.DefaultExecutor;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;

import jxl.Workbook;
import jxl.read.biff.BiffException;

public class AppiumServer {

public void startAppiumServer() throws IOException, InterruptedException {   
      
    CommandLine command = new CommandLine("cmd");
    command.addArgument("/c");  
    command.addArgument("c:/Appium/node.exe");  
    command.addArgument("c:/Appium/node_modules/appium/lib/appium.js");  
    command.addArgument("--address", false);  
    command.addArgument("127.0.0.1");  
    command.addArgument("--port", false);  
    command.addArgument("4723");  
    command.addArgument("--full-reset", false);  

    command.addArgument("C:/Appium/node.exe C:/Appium/node_modules/appium/bin/Appium.js --address 127.0.0.1 --chromedriver-port 9516 --bootstrap-port 4725 --selendroid-port 8082 --no-reset --local-timezone");
    
    DefaultExecuteResultHandler resultHandler = new DefaultExecuteResultHandler();  
    DefaultExecutor executor = new DefaultExecutor();  
    executor.setExitValue(1);  
    executor.execute(command, resultHandler);  
  
}


public  void stopAppiumServer() throws IOException {  
    CommandLine command = new CommandLine("cmd");  
    command.addArgument("/c");  
    command.addArgument("Taskkill /F /IM node.exe");  
  
    DefaultExecuteResultHandler resultHandler = new DefaultExecuteResultHandler();  
    DefaultExecutor executor = new DefaultExecutor();  
    executor.setExitValue(1);  
    executor.execute(command, resultHandler);  
     
}

public static void main(String as[]) throws IOException, InterruptedException
{
    AppiumServer aps = new AppiumServer();
    System.out.println("Starting Server...");
    aps.startAppiumServer();
    System.out.println("Server Started....");
    try{Thread.sleep(5000);}catch(Exception e){}
    System.out.println("Stopping Server");
    aps.stopAppiumServer();
    System.out.println("Server Stopped");
}

}