Unable to start Appium server 1.6 programmatically using AppiumDriverLocalService

Description

I’ve installed node via brew then installed Appium 1.6 using NPM and tried running it with AppiumDriverLocalService. I wasn’t able to run Appium server on one of PC.

Environment

Node version 7.0.0 Appium version 1.6.0

Details

It happens on one machine another works well. I checked paths of main.js/appium.js etc. and they are the same on both PCs.

Code To Reproduce Issue

private AppiumDriverLocalService service;
private String serverAddress = "0.0.0.0";

DesiredCapabilities serverCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
AppiumServiceBuilder builder = new AppiumServiceBuilder().withCapabilities(serverCapabilities);
builder.usingAnyFreePort();
builder.withIPAddress(serverAddress);
builder.withArgument(GeneralServerFlag.SESSION_OVERRIDE);
builder.withArgument(GeneralServerFlag.LOG_LEVEL, "warn");

service = builder.build();
service.start();

Ecxeption stacktraces

io.appium.java_client.service.local.InvalidServerInstanceException: Invalid server instance exception has occured: There is no installed nodes! Please install node via NPM (https://www.npmjs.com/package/appium#using-node-js) or download and install Appium app (http://appium.io/downloads.html) Buildiat io.appium.java_client.service.local.AppiumServiceBuilder.findNodeInCurrentFileSystem(AppiumServiceBuilder.java:160) at io.appium.java_client.service.local.AppiumServiceBuilder.checkAppiumJS(AppiumServiceBuilder.java:305) at io.appium.java_client.service.local.AppiumServiceBuilder.createArgs(AppiumServiceBuilder.java:386) at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverService$Builder.build(DriverService.java:299) at com.***.appium.helper.DriverManager.createAppiumDriver(DriverManager.java:49) at com.autotest.runners.BaseRunner.setUp(BaseRunner.java:77) at com.autotest.runners.advert.AdvertRunner.setUp(AdvertRunner.java:22) at com.autotest.runners.advert.BannerRunner.setUp(BannerRunner.java:22) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498) at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:100) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurationMethod(Invoker.java:515) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:216) at org.testng.internal.Invoker.invokeConfigurations(Invoker.java:143) at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeBeforeClassMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:169) at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:108) at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:753) at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:607) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:368) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:363) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:321) at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:270) at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:52) at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:86) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1284) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1209) at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1124) at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1096) at com.autotest.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:72) Caused by: java.io.IOException: /usr/local/lib/node_modules /var/folders/wk/w9dbkg0x7gbdbcmr2c9pfwnw0000gn/T/get_path_to_default_node5052055597677988693.sh: line 4: shell_session_update: command not found

at io.appium.java_client.service.local.AppiumServiceBuilder.findNodeInCurrentFileSystem(AppiumServiceBuilder.java:161)
... 30 more

[SrinivasanTarget]

@shynkevich-alex Please try setting up the main.js path as well and update us,

AppiumServiceBuilder builder = new AppiumServiceBuilder()
                .withAppiumJS(new File("/usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/build/lib/main.js"))
                .withArgument(GeneralServerFlag.APP,  path of your app );
        appiumDriverLocalService = builder.build();
        appiumDriverLocalService.start();

Also were you able to run the server manually? Is path of node is setup in PATH on your PC?

[varthikeyan]

I am getting below error in “service.start()”. Someone please help?

(node:1400) Warning: To load an ES module, set “type”: “module” in the package.json or use the .mjs extension. C:\Users\HP\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\appium\lib\main.js:4 import { init as logsinkInit } from ‘./logsink’; ^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module at wrapSafe (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1053:16) at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1101:27) at Object.Module._extensions…js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1157:10) at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:985:32) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:878:14) at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:71:12) at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:47