playwright/docs/src/release-notes-java.md

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release-notes	Release notes

Version 1.15

🖱️ Mouse Wheel

By using Mouse.wheel you are now able to scroll vertically or horizontally.

📜 New Headers API

Previously it was not possible to get multiple header values of a response. This is now possible and additional helper functions are available:

• Request.allHeaders()
• Request.headersArray()
• Request.headerValue(name: string)
• Response.allHeaders()
• Response.headersArray()
• Response.headerValue(name: string)
• Response.headerValues(name: string)

🌈 Forced-Colors emulation

Its now possible to emulate the forced-colors CSS media feature by passing it in the context options or calling Page.emulateMedia().

New APIs

• Page.route() accepts new times option to specify how many times this route should be matched.
• Page.setChecked(selector: string, checked: boolean) and Locator.setChecked(selector: string, checked: boolean) was introduced to set the checked state of a checkbox.
• Request.sizes() Returns resource size information for given http request.
• Tracing.startChunk() - Start a new trace chunk.
• Tracing.stopChunk() - Stops a new trace chunk.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 96.0.4641.0
• Mozilla Firefox 92.0
• WebKit 15.0

Version 1.14

⚡️ New "strict" mode

Selector ambiguity is a common problem in automation testing. "strict" mode ensures that your selector points to a single element and throws otherwise.

Set setStrict(true) in your action calls to opt in.

// This will throw if you have more than one button!
page.click("button", new Page.ClickOptions().setStrict(true));

📍 New Locators API

Locator represents a view to the element(s) on the page. It captures the logic sufficient to retrieve the element at any given moment.

The difference between the Locator and ElementHandle is that the latter points to a particular element, while Locator captures the logic of how to retrieve that element.

Also, locators are "strict" by default!

Locator locator = page.locator("button");
locator.click();

Learn more in the documentation.

🧩 Experimental React and Vue selector engines

React and Vue selectors allow selecting elements by its component name and/or property values. The syntax is very similar to attribute selectors and supports all attribute selector operators.

page.click("_react=SubmitButton[enabled=true]");
page.click("_vue=submit-button[enabled=true]");

Learn more in the react selectors documentation and the vue selectors documentation.

✨ New nth and visible selector engines

• nth selector engine is equivalent to the :nth-match pseudo class, but could be combined with other selector engines.
• visible selector engine is equivalent to the :visible pseudo class, but could be combined with other selector engines.

// select the first button among all buttons
button.click("button >> nth=0");
// or if you are using locators, you can use first(), nth() and last()
page.locator("button").first().click();

// click a visible button
button.click("button >> visible=true");

Browser Versions

• Chromium 94.0.4595.0
• Mozilla Firefox 91.0
• WebKit 15.0

Version 1.13

Playwright

• 🖖 Programmatic drag-and-drop support via the [method: Page.dragAndDrop] API.
• 🔎 Enhanced HAR with body sizes for requests and responses. Use via recordHar option in [method: Browser.newContext].

Tools

• Playwright Trace Viewer now shows parameters, returned values and console.log() calls.

New and Overhauled Guides

• Intro
• Authentication

Browser Versions

• Chromium 93.0.4576.0
• Mozilla Firefox 90.0
• WebKit 14.2

New Playwright APIs

• new baseURL option in [method: Browser.newContext] and [method: Browser.newPage]
• [method: Response.securityDetails] and [method: Response.serverAddr]
• [method: Page.dragAndDrop] and [method: Frame.dragAndDrop]
• [method: Download.cancel]
• [method: Page.inputValue], [method: Frame.inputValue] and [method: ElementHandle.inputValue]
• new force option in [method: Page.fill], [method: Frame.fill], and [method: ElementHandle.fill]
• new force option in [method: Page.selectOption], [method: Frame.selectOption], and [method: ElementHandle.selectOption]

Version 1.12

🧟‍♂️ Introducing Playwright Trace Viewer

Playwright Trace Viewer is a new GUI tool that helps exploring recorded Playwright traces after the script ran. Playwright traces let you examine:

• page DOM before and after each Playwright action
• page rendering before and after each Playwright action
• browser network during script execution

Traces are recorded using the new [property: BrowserContext.tracing] API:

Browser browser = chromium.launch();
BrowserContext context = browser.newContext();

// Start tracing before creating / navigating a page.
context.tracing.start(new Tracing.StartOptions()
  .setScreenshots(true)
  .setSnapshots(true);

Page page = context.newPage();
page.goto("https://playwright.dev");

// Stop tracing and export it into a zip archive.
context.tracing.stop(new Tracing.StopOptions()
  .setPath(Paths.get("trace.zip")));

Traces are examined later with the Playwright CLI:

mvn exec:java -e -Dexec.mainClass=com.microsoft.playwright.CLI -Dexec.args="show-trace trace.zip"

That will open the following GUI:

👉 Read more in trace viewer documentation.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 93.0.4530.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 91
• Microsoft Edge 91

New APIs

• reducedMotion option in [method: Page.emulateMedia], [method: BrowserType.launchPersistentContext], [method: Browser.newContext] and [method: Browser.newPage]
• [event: BrowserContext.request]
• [event: BrowserContext.requestFailed]
• [event: BrowserContext.requestFinished]
• [event: BrowserContext.response]
• tracesDir option in [method: BrowserType.launch] and [method: BrowserType.launchPersistentContext]
• new [property: BrowserContext.tracing] API namespace
• new [method: Download.page] method

Version 1.11

🎥 New video: Playwright: A New Test Automation Framework for the Modern Web (slides)

• We talked about Playwright
• Showed engineering work behind the scenes
• Did live demos with new features ✨
• Special thanks to applitools for hosting the event and inviting us!

Browser Versions

• Chromium 92.0.4498.0
• Mozilla Firefox 89.0b6
• WebKit 14.2

New APIs

• support for async predicates across the API in methods such as [method: Page.waitForRequest] and others
• new emulation devices: Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9+, Galaxy Tab S4, Pixel 3, Pixel 4
• new methods:
  • [method: Page.waitForURL] to await navigations to URL
  • [method: Video.delete] and [method: Video.saveAs] to manage screen recording
• new options:
  • screen option in the [method: Browser.newContext] method to emulate window.screen dimensions
  • position option in [method: Page.check] and [method: Page.uncheck] methods
  • trial option to dry-run actions in [method: Page.check], [method: Page.uncheck], [method: Page.click], [method: Page.dblclick], [method: Page.hover] and [method: Page.tap]

Version 1.10

• Playwright for Java v1.10 is now stable!
• Run Playwright against Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge stable channels with the new channels API.
• Chromium screenshots are fast on Mac & Windows.

Bundled Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4430.0
• Mozilla Firefox 87.0b10
• WebKit 14.2

This version of Playwright was also tested against the following stable channels:

• Google Chrome 89
• Microsoft Edge 89

New APIs

• browserType.launch() now accepts the new 'channel' option. Read more in our documentation.

Version 1.9

• Playwright Inspector is a new GUI tool to author and debug your tests.

  • Line-by-line debugging of your Playwright scripts, with play, pause and step-through.
  • Author new scripts by recording user actions.
  • Generate element selectors for your script by hovering over elements.
  • Set the PWDEBUG=1 environment variable to launch the Inspector

• Pause script execution with [method: Page.pause] in headed mode. Pausing the page launches Playwright Inspector for debugging.

• New has-text pseudo-class for CSS selectors. :has-text("example") matches any element containing "example" somewhere inside, possibly in a child or a descendant element. See more examples.

• Page dialogs are now auto-dismissed during execution, unless a listener for dialog event is configured. Learn more about this.

• Playwright for Python is now stable with an idiomatic snake case API and pre-built Docker image to run tests in CI/CD.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4421.0
• Mozilla Firefox 86.0b10
• WebKit 14.1

New APIs

• [method: Page.pause].

Version 1.8

• Selecting elements based on layout with :left-of(), :right-of(), :above() and :below().
• Playwright now includes command line interface, former playwright-cli.

  npx playwright --help
  

  playwright --help
  

• [method: Page.selectOption] now waits for the options to be present.
• New methods to assert element state like [method: Page.isEditable].

New APIs

• [method: ElementHandle.isChecked].
• [method: ElementHandle.isDisabled].
• [method: ElementHandle.isEditable].
• [method: ElementHandle.isEnabled].
• [method: ElementHandle.isHidden].
• [method: ElementHandle.isVisible].
• [method: Page.isChecked].
• [method: Page.isDisabled].
• [method: Page.isEditable].
• [method: Page.isEnabled].
• [method: Page.isHidden].
• [method: Page.isVisible].
• New option 'editable' in [method: ElementHandle.waitForElementState].

Browser Versions

• Chromium 90.0.4392.0
• Mozilla Firefox 85.0b5
• WebKit 14.1

Version 1.7

• New Java SDK: Playwright for Java is now on par with JavaScript, Python and .NET bindings.
• Browser storage API: New convenience APIs to save and load browser storage state (cookies, local storage) to simplify automation scenarios with authentication.
• New CSS selectors: We heard your feedback for more flexible selectors and have revamped the selectors implementation. Playwright 1.7 introduces new CSS extensions and there's more coming soon.
• New website: The docs website at playwright.dev has been updated and is now built with Docusaurus.
• Support for Apple Silicon: Playwright browser binaries for WebKit and Chromium are now built for Apple Silicon.

New APIs

• [method: BrowserContext.storageState] to get current state for later reuse.
• storageState option in [method: Browser.newContext] and [method: Browser.newPage] to setup browser context state.

Browser Versions

• Chromium 89.0.4344.0
• Mozilla Firefox 84.0b9
• WebKit 14.1