{"id":6500,"date":"2020-11-14T13:51:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T13:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/codoid.com\/?p=6500"},"modified":"2023-01-31T11:50:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T11:50:43","slug":"selenium-4-javascript-pinning-feature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/codoid.com\/selenium-testing\/selenium-4-javascript-pinning-feature\/","title":{"rendered":"Selenium 4 JavaScript Pinning Feature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Selenium 4, we have another feature which is useful to pin the commonly used JavaScript snippets to a WebDriver session. In Selenium 4 alpha version 7, you can try the below snippets at your end to see how script pinning works. Once a script is pinned, you can use it until your WebDriver session is alive. Let&#8217;s say you want to run a series of <a href=\"https:\/\/eloquentjavascript.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">JavaScript<\/a> snippets multiple times. You need to store each of the snippets in a String variable and execute them one by one.<\/p>\n<p>However, with the script pinning feature, you can store &#038; run the commonly used snippets using the <a href=\"https:\/\/codoid.com\/testing-services\/selenium-testing-services\/\">WebDriver<\/a> session instead of storing in String variables.<\/p>\n<div class=\"editor editor-dark\">\n<div class=\"editor-top\">\n<ul class=\"editor-controls\">\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"brush: java; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nWebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();\r\nJavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;\r\n\r\nScriptKey hello = executor.pin(&quot;return arguments[0]&quot;);\r\nexecutor.executeScript(hello, &quot;cheese&quot;);\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>You can also unpin the store script anytime.<\/p>\n<div class=\"editor editor-dark\">\n<div class=\"editor-top\">\n<ul class=\"editor-controls\">\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"brush: java; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nexecutor.unpin(hello);\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you would like to store and retrieve multiple pins, you can use Set to save the pins.<\/p>\n<div class=\"editor editor-dark\">\n<div class=\"editor-top\">\n<ul class=\"editor-controls\">\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<pre class=\"brush: java; title: ; notranslate\" title=\"\">\r\nSet&lt;ScriptKey&gt; expected = ImmutableSet.of(\r\n      executor.pin(&quot;return arguments[0];&quot;),\r\n      executor.pin(&quot;return 'cheese';&quot;),\r\n      executor.pin(&quot;return 42;&quot;));\r\n\r\nSet&lt;ScriptKey&gt; pinned = executor.getPinnedScripts();\r\n<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Selenium 4, we have another feature which is useful to pin the commonly used JavaScript snippets to a WebDriver session. 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