How to address "The constructor ChromeDriver(Capabilities) is deprecated" and WebDriverException: Timed out error with ChromeDriver and Chrome

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I'm trying to config the default download directory as below, it's works correctly but I'm having two issues :

    String exePath = "src\\Drivers\\chromedriver.exe";
    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", exePath);
    String downloadFilepath = "U:\\Data\\Download";
    HashMap<String, Object> chromePrefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
    chromePrefs.put("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0);
    chromePrefs.put("download.default_directory", downloadFilepath);
    ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
    options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", chromePrefs);
    DesiredCapabilities cap = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
    cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
    cap.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
    driver = new ChromeDriver(cap);
    driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

It's telling me that The constructor ChromeDriver(Capabilities) is deprecated

When I replay the test several times it happens to have a Webdrive TimeOut exception

juin 13, 2018 5:23:27 PM org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities chrome
INFO: Using `new ChromeOptions()` is preferred to `DesiredCapabilities.chrome()`
FAILED CONFIGURATION: @BeforeMethod beforeMethod
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Timed out waiting for driver server to start.
Build info: version: '3.11.0', revision: 'e59cfb3', time: '2018-03-11T20:26:55.152Z'
System info: host: 'PB02-VD037', ip: '10.143.73.85', os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: '1.8.0_171'
Driver info: driver.version: ChromeDriver

Chrome : Version 66.0.3359.117 (Official Build) (64-bit) Chromedriver : 2.37 — Eric, Jun 13 '18 at 16:09

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 13 '18 at 15:57

It seems you were almost there. You need to use the method merge() from MutableCapabilities Class to merge the DesiredCapabilities type of object into ChromeOptions type object and initiate the WebDriver and WebClient instance by passing the ChromeOptions object as follows :

String exePath = "src\\Drivers\\chromedriver.exe";
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", exePath);
String downloadFilepath = "U:\\Data\\Download";
HashMap<String, Object> chromePrefs = new HashMap<String, Object>();
chromePrefs.put("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0);
chromePrefs.put("download.default_directory", downloadFilepath);
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", chromePrefs);
DesiredCapabilities cap = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();
cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
cap.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options);
options.merge(cap);
driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

How to address "The constructor ChromeDriver(Capabilities) is deprecated" and WebDriverException: Timed out error with ChromeDriver and Chrome

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