Have ability to receive session capabilities during run time
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Description
When someone initiates a WebDriver session the capabilities are provided in the session response. For many framework implementations these capabilities are valuable information to reason about the features that are supported.
Currently there is no way to get these information after the session has been initiated. This becomes problematic if you want to attach to an already running session. The JSON Wire Protocol had such an endpoint. Was there a reason why this endpoint was not spec'ed in WebDriver? Would there be a general consensus to bring it back?
ref: webdriverio/webdriverio#4651
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the WebDriver session response and the referenced JSON Wire Protocol GET /session/{sessionId} endpoint. The issue does not name repository files or tests; done would require a decided specification for retrieving capabilities from an already running session.
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Assessment
- Domain
- api
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100