Setting Relative path in intellij for gecko driver throws error

Question

Placing geckodriver in resources and mapping it works on the machine am working on, but not on any other machine. i need it to export it to other machines, so that i am creating a jar which i need to run on any other machine, but when running the jar on other machine is throwing out "The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.gecko.driver system property" error.

public static WebDriver createDriver() 
{
        WebDriver driver= new FirefoxDriver();
        System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "./src/main/resources/geckodriver");
        driver = new FirefoxDriver(FirefoxDriverProfile());
        driver.manage().window().maximize();
        DesiredCapabilities capabilities = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
        capabilities.setCapability("marionette", true);
        return driver;

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Possible duplicate of [Selenium using Java - The path to the driver executable must be set by the webdriver.gecko.driver system property](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38676719/selenium-using-java-the-path-to-the-driver-executable-must-be-set-by-the-webdr) — Andersson, Mar 08 '17 at 08:22

Inphinitii · Answer 1 · 2017-03-08T16:01:55.873

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It seems that you're missing the file extension. The following works for me using relative file paths:

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", ".\\WebDrivers\\geckodriver.exe");

Edit: Have you tried to swap the order of these two lines? Unless I'm mistaken, the system property should be set prior to the creation of the WebDriver.

WebDriver driver= new FirefoxDriver();
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "./src/main/resources/geckodriver");

Should be

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "./src/main/resources/geckodriver");
WebDriver driver= new FirefoxDriver();

edited Mar 08 '17 at 16:01

answered Mar 08 '17 at 14:03

Inphinitii

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Edited answer. Please try that. – Inphinitii Mar 08 '17 at 16:02
This works when running from the ide ie intellij, but not from an executable jar.. firefox launches but wont load the url. – Lijo Philip Mar 09 '17 at 09:12
That's more than likely a separate issue. If Firefox is launching from the executable jar then your path is correct. – Inphinitii Mar 09 '17 at 16:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 08 '17 at 12:25

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You can set it like:-

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", new File("./src/main/resources/geckodriver").getCanonicalPath());

answered Mar 08 '17 at 12:25

Paras

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This works when running from the ide ie intellij, but not from an executable jar.. – Lijo Philip Mar 09 '17 at 09:12

Setting Relative path in intellij for gecko driver throws error

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