appium: Appium 2 - XcuiTest driver args unrecognized wdaLocalPort

The problem

When trying to use appium server --driver-args='{"xcuitest":{"wdaLocalPort": 8104}}' with Appium 2.0.0-beta.23 it throws the following error

appium: error: unrecognized arguments: --driver-args

Environment

Appium version (or git revision) that exhibits the issue: Appium 2.0.0-beta.23
Last Appium version that did not exhibit the issue (if applicable):Appium 2.0.0-beta.19 (works when i roll back to this version)
Desktop OS/version used to run Appium: Appium 2 CLI
Node.js version (unless using Appium.app|exe): 14.15.4
Npm or Yarn package manager: npm
Mobile platform/version under test: ios using xcuitest@3.59.1
Real device or emulator/simulator: Sim

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Comments: 18 (9 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

fix(appium): make show-config more right `--show-config` was not able to distinguish between defaults and values provided on the CLI. now it does. `--show-config` now displays (in this order): 1. ... — committed to appium/appium by boneskull 2 years ago
fix(appium): make show-config more right `--show-config` was not able to distinguish between defaults and values provided on the CLI. now it does. `--show-config` now displays (in this order): 1. ... — committed to appium/appium by boneskull 2 years ago
fix(appium): make show-config more right `--show-config` was not able to distinguish between defaults and values provided on the CLI. now it does. `--show-config` now displays (in this order): 1. ... — committed to appium/appium by boneskull 2 years ago
fix(appium): make show-config more right `--show-config` was not able to distinguish between defaults and values provided on the CLI. now it does. `--show-config` now displays (in this order): 1. ... — committed to appium/appium by boneskull 2 years ago
fix(appium): make show-config more right `--show-config` was not able to distinguish between defaults and values provided on the CLI. now it does. `--show-config` now displays (in this order): 1. ... — committed to appium/appium by boneskull 2 years ago
fix(appium): make show-config more right `--show-config` was not able to distinguish between defaults and values provided on the CLI. now it does. `--show-config` now displays (in this order): 1. ... — committed to appium/appium by boneskull 2 years ago

Most upvoted comments

--driver-args was abandoned in favour of config schemas. These are provided by driver devs. If you have appium 2 beta and a recent version of the xcuitest driver, you can find the appropriate driver-specific flags in the help:

appium server --help

will produce this as part of the output:

  --driver-xcuitest-webdriveragent-port WEBDRIVERAGENT_PORT
                        Local port used for communication with WebDriverAgent
  --driver-xcuitest-webkit-debug-proxy-port WEBKIT_DEBUG_PROXY_PORT
                        (Real device only) Port to which `ios-webkit-debug-proxy` is connected

So you can simply run:

appium server --driver-xcuitest-webdriveragent-port 8104

jlipps on Jan 17, 2022

thanks to @boneskull for the fix!

jlipps on Jan 19, 2022

Since https://github.com/appium/appium-xcuitest-driver/pull/1372 has been merged, within the next day or two a new xcuitest driver should be auto-published, which you can then upgrade to via the CLI to get the fix.

jlipps on Jan 19, 2022

See appium/appium-xcuitest-driver#1372

boneskull on Jan 19, 2022