Need to control chromedriver chrome language, but chrome_options can't be passed along

Hello,

Try to use chrome instead of firefox as it is faster and because firefox stop working recently for apparently selenium/splinter/firefox update missmatch of some kind…

I have ubuntu with french locales and chrome seems to be installed with french as a default language… My tests need to be executed in us-en chrome instance to succeed. Even if I set default language to us_en in chrome preferences the instance lauched by browser(‘chrome’) don’t seems to use the default profile preferences but the chrome built one or something.

So, I try many way to pass language specification to chrome instance without succes.

    from splinter.driver.webdriver.chrome.Options import Options
    import splinter
    options = splinter.driver.webdriver.chrome.Options()
    options.add_argument('--lang=en-us')
    browser = Browser('chrome', chrome_options=options)

Inspire by some answer from this SO question : http://sqa.stackexchange.com/questions/9904/how-to-set-browser-locale-with-chromedriver-python

Not working…

    from selenium.webdriver import Chrome
    from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
    from splinter.driver.webdriver import BaseWebDriver, WebDriverElement

    options = Options()
    options.add_argument('--lang=en-us')
    global browser
    browser = BaseWebDriver()
    browser.driver = Chrome(chrome_options=options)

This other option failed with the following error :

  do_login_if_need(username, base64.b64decode(password))

controllers/test_analysis.py:180: controllers/test_analysis.py:90: in do_login_if_need if browser.is_element_present_by_css(‘div.login_box’): /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/splinter/driver/webdriver/init.py:251: in is_element_present_by_css return self.is_element_present(self.find_by_css, css_selector, wait_time) /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/splinter/driver/webdriver/init.py:237: in is_element_present if finder(selector): /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/splinter/driver/webdriver/init.py:387: in find_by_css original_query=css_selector)

self = <splinter.driver.webdriver.BaseWebDriver object at 0x7fd3bc2b8d90> finder = <bound method WebDriver.find_elements_by_css_selector of <selenium.webdriver.chrome.webdriver.WebDriver (session=“e32ee751b41d469e5138fac42c7d25e4”)>>, selector = ‘div.login_box’, original_find = ‘css’ original_query = ‘div.login_box’

def find_by(self, finder, selector, original_find=None, original_query=None):
    elements = None
    end_time = time.time() + self.wait_time

    func_name = getattr(getattr(finder, _meth_func), _func_name)
    find_by = original_find or func_name[func_name.rfind('_by_') + 4:]
    query = original_query or selector

    while time.time() < end_time:
        try:
            elements = finder(selector)
            if not isinstance(elements, list):
                elements = [elements]
        except NoSuchElementException:
            pass

        if elements:
            return ElementList(

              [self.element_class(element, self) for element in elements],
                find_by=find_by, query=query)

E AttributeError: ‘BaseWebDriver’ object has no attribute ‘element_class’

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/splinter/driver/webdriver/init.py:380: AttributeError

I am not sure if It is me that don’t follow proper API fo BaseWebDriver or if the issue is somewhere else…

I think issues #326 and #382 are relate to mine…

Thanks

[karlwnw]

Hi @BuhtigithuB,

A bit late, but just in case you still need it, I found that options.add_experimental_option("prefs", {"intl.accept_languages": "fr-FR"}) works.

Karl

[Loschcode]

In Ruby, I used it this way if that can help anyone

  BROWSER_LANGUAGE = 'el' # could be en-US, fr-FR, etc.
  options = Selenium::WebDriver::Chrome::Options.new
  options.add_option('prefs', 'intl.accept_languages': BROWSER_LANGUAGE)

  Capybara::Selenium::Driver.new(
    app,
    browser: :chrome,
    desired_capabilities: capabilities,
    http_client: client,
    options: options
  )