Log Appium testresults to console

Question

Appium won't log the test results (of the UI-tests, executed with adb emulator) to the debug output (Deug.WriteLine).

According to the documentation, get test logs is possible with the following line

ILogs logs = driver.Manage().Logs;

Hower, Appium has different log types:

Browser
Client
Driver
Profiler
Server

I tried every single log type with the following code. But by executing I don't get any result and the test will (where I put the code) fail. Does anyone have a solution for this problem?

ReadOnlyCollection<LogEntry> logs = _driver.Manage().Logs.GetLog(LogType.Browser);
//  ReadOnlyCollection<LogEntry> logs = _driver.Manage().Logs.GetLog(LogType.Client);
//  ReadOnlyCollection<LogEntry> logs = _driver.Manage().Logs.GetLog(LogType.Driver);
//  ReadOnlyCollection<LogEntry> logs = _driver.Manage().Logs.GetLog(LogType.Profiler);
//  ReadOnlyCollection<LogEntry> logs = _driver.Manage().Logs.GetLog(LogType.Server);

foreach (var log in logs)
{
    Debug.WriteLine("Time: " + log.Timestamp);
    Debug.WriteLine("Message: " + log.Message);
    Debug.WriteLine("Level: " + log.Level);
}

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 14 '20 at 07:21

I just figure out.

Check this article first relaxed Security AppiumService

Get the log type

    IReadOnlyCollection<string> logTypes = driver.Manage().Logs.AvailableLogTypes;
    foreach (string logType in logTypes)
    {
        Console.WriteLine(logType);
        //logcat
        //bugreport
        //server
    }

Print logs

public static void PrintLogs(string logType)
{
    try
    {
        ILogs _logs = driver.Manage().Logs;
        var browserLogs = _logs.GetLog(logType);
        if (browserLogs.Count > 0)
        {
            foreach (var log in browserLogs)
            {
                //log the message in a file
                Console.WriteLine(log);
            }
        }
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
        //There are no log types present
        Console.WriteLine(e.ToString());
    }

Picture : C# Console Print appium log

Thank you! I noticed that they have updated the documentation. — Cornest, Feb 18 '20 at 09:06

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 27 '19 at 14:19

-1

In java I am doing it using the following code:

List<LogEntry> logEntries = driver.manage().logs().get("logcat").getAll();
for (LogEntry logEntry : logEntries) {
        System.out.println(logEntry);
}

Not sure if this method works for C#. Please give it a try

List<LogEntry> logEntries = _driver.Manage().Logs().Get("logcat").GetAll();

edited Mar 27 '19 at 14:19

Cornest

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answered Mar 26 '19 at 07:51

Suban Dhyako

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Thank you for your reply, I tried: ReadOnlyCollection logs = _driver.Manage().Logs.GetLog("logcat"); but the test fails again. What does the log look like in java? – Cornest Mar 26 '19 at 07:58
It will show the log that we get while running **adb devices** command. What do you mean by test fail? – Suban Dhyako Mar 26 '19 at 08:29
When I try to log the results to the debug output the test will fail with the message: 'System.NullReferenceException : Object reference not set to an instance of an object.'. If I remove that specific code (to log the results) the test succeeds. – Cornest Mar 26 '19 at 08:35
Can you replace ReadOnlyCollection with List and try if it is showing the same error? – Suban Dhyako Mar 26 '19 at 09:13
please check [List](https://www.tutorialsteacher.com/codeeditor?cid=cs-At1qDb) to learn how to use list in c# – Suban Dhyako Mar 26 '19 at 11:39
I know how to use lists in C#. But the GetLog method returns a ReadOnlyCollection of LogEntries. Link: https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/dotnet/html/M_OpenQA_Selenium_ILogs_GetLog.htm – Cornest Mar 26 '19 at 13:23

Log Appium testresults to console

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