/// <summary>
/// Starts a session with the driver
/// </summary>
/// <param name="desiredCapabilities">Capabilities of the browser</param>
protected void StartSession(ICapabilities desiredCapabilities)
{
Dictionary <string, object> parameters = new Dictionary <string, object>();
// If the object passed into the RemoteWebDriver constructor is a
// RemoteSessionSettings object, it is expected that all intermediate
// and end nodes are compliant with the W3C WebDriver Specification,
// and therefore will already contain all of the appropriate values
// for establishing a session.
RemoteSessionSettings remoteSettings = desiredCapabilities as RemoteSessionSettings;
if (remoteSettings == null)
{
Dictionary <string, object> matchCapabilities = this.GetCapabilitiesDictionary(desiredCapabilities);
List <object> firstMatchCapabilitiesList = new List <object>();
firstMatchCapabilitiesList.Add(matchCapabilities);
Dictionary <string, object> specCompliantCapabilitiesDictionary = new Dictionary <string, object>();
specCompliantCapabilitiesDictionary["firstMatch"] = firstMatchCapabilitiesList;
parameters.Add("capabilities", specCompliantCapabilitiesDictionary);
}
else
{
parameters.Add("capabilities", remoteSettings.ToDictionary());
}
Response response = this.Execute(DriverCommand.NewSession, parameters);
Dictionary <string, object> rawCapabilities = response.Value as Dictionary <string, object>;
if (rawCapabilities == null)
{
string errorMessage = string.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "The new session command returned a value ('{0}') that is not a valid JSON object.", response.Value);
throw new WebDriverException(errorMessage);
}
ReturnedCapabilities returnedCapabilities = new ReturnedCapabilities(rawCapabilities);
this.capabilities = returnedCapabilities;
this.sessionId = new SessionId(response.SessionId);
}
