Programmatic browser and driver version access

[chabala]

If I call

WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();

the discovered browser version, and downloaded/located driver version are printed to the log, like this:

Using chromedriver 132.0.6834.159 (resolved driver for Chrome 132)

this happens here:

webdrivermanager/src/main/java/io/github/bonigarcia/wdm/WebDriverManager.java

Lines 1244 to 1249 in 739aa06

	if (optionalDriverVersion.isPresent()) {
	driverVersion = optionalDriverVersion.get();
	log.info("Using {} {} (resolved driver for {} {})",
	getDriverName(), driverVersion,
	getDriverManagerType().getBrowserName(),
	resolvedBrowserVersion);

If I want programmatic access to these versions, for instance, to expose to monitoring instrumentation or print in an after-execution report, they seem to be very hard to get to. This log statement is buried in the middle of a protected method with a lot of other responsibilities.

getDriverVersion() and getBrowserVersion() are also protected methods. I've tried calling getChromeDriverVersion() on the Config object, and it always seems to return an empty string. What am I missing here? How can I get access to the same values that were logged?

[bonigarcia]

The downloaded driver version is available after calling .setup() by invoking the method .getDownloadedDriverVersion() (see doc):

WebDriverManager wdm = WebDriverManager.chromedriver();
wdm.setup();
String driverVersion = wdm.getDownloadedDriverVersion();

But the discovered browser version is not currently exposed in the WebDriverManager API. If you are familiar with the code, you can create a PR about that.

[chabala]

I have been able to work around this, using Selenium Capabilities, like so:

WebDriver webDriver = WebDriverManager.chromedriver().create();
Capabilities capabilities = ((HasCapabilities) webDriver).getCapabilities();
String browserName = capabilities.getBrowserName();
String browserVersion = capabilities.getVersion();
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
Map<String, String> chrome = (Map<String, String>) capabilities.getCapability("chrome");
String chromedriverVersion = chrome.get("chromedriverVersion");

which is okay, but a couple more casts (including unchecked) than I would like, and some magic string lookups. I'd probably have to get fancier to do this in a browser-driver-independent way.

I will think about what you've said and see if I can muster a PR.

[bonigarcia]

WebDriverManager 6.2.0 (just released) ships a new API method called getResolvedBrowserVersion() to access the resolved major browser version.