Getting error as "method chrome() is undefined for the type DesiredCapabilities"

Question

Context: Getting error as method chrome undefined from the below code:

package zapSeleniumIntegration;

import java.lang.reflect.Proxy;    
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.CapabilityType;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

public class BrowserDriverFactory {

    static WebDriver driver;
    public static WebDriver createChromeDriver(Proxy proxy, String path) {
    // Set proxy in the chrome browser
    DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.chrome();//Getting error as method chrome undefined
            capabilities.setCapability("127.0.0.1", 8080);
            // Set system property for chrome driver with the path
            System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\kotla.naveen\\Desktop\\chromedriver.exe");
            capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
            ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
            options.merge(capabilities);
            return new ChromeDriver(options); 
    }
}

Answer 1

The old method Capabilities is deprecated. Use ChromeOptions object and passed it to the ChromeDriver() constructor. Also, you don't need to use options.merge(capabilities); instead, you can use options.setCapability(params, params)

However, You can completely skip DesiredCapabilities and use only ChromeOptions with setCapability method as mentioned below:

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
options.addArguments("disable-infobars");
options.setAcceptInsecureCerts(true);
options.setUnhandledPromptBehaviour(UnexpectedAlertBehaviour.ACCEPT);

//Set the pre defined capability – ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS value to true:

options.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);

//Pass the chromeoption object to the ChromeDriver:

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(options);

************** To set proxy **************

ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
Proxy proxy = new Proxy();
proxy.setAutodetect(false);
proxy.setHttpProxy("proxy_url:port"); 
proxy.setSslProxy("proxy_url:port");
proxy.setNoProxy("no_proxy-var");

options.setCapability("proxy", proxy); 
driver = new ChromeDriver(options);