I am trying to be able to manage multiple instances of Selenium at the same time, but haven't had much luck. I'm not 100% sure if it's possible. I have an application with a GUI built with PyQT that retrieves our client's information from our SQL database. It's a fairly simple app that lets our users easily log in and out of our clients' accounts. They click the client's name, press "Login", it launches an instance of Firefox, logs into the account, and stays open so the user can do whatever they need to do. When they are done, they click the "Logout" button, and it logs out of the account and quits the webdriver instance.
What I'm trying to provide is a way for them to log into multiple accounts at once, while still maintaining the ability to click one of the client's names that they are logged into, process the logout on that account, and close that browser instance.
One thing I was hoping is to be able to control the webdriver by either a process ID, or unique ID, in which I can store in a dictionary linking it to that client, so when they click the client's name in the app, and press logout, it uses something in PyQT like "client_name = self.list_item.currentItem().text()" to get the name of the client they have selected (which I'm already using for other things, too), finds the unique ID or process ID, and sends the logout command to that instance, and then closes that instance.
This may not be the best way to go about doing it, but it's the only thing I could think of.
EDIT: I also know that you can retrieve the Selenium session_id with driver.session_id (considering your webdriver instance is assigned as 'driver'), but i have seen nothing so far on being able to control a webdriver instance by this session_id.
EDIT2: Here is an incredibly stripped down version of what I have:
from selenium import webdriver
from PyQt4 import QtGui, QtCore
class ClientAccountManager(QtGui.QMainWindow):
def __init__(self):
super(ClientAccountManager, self).__init__()
grid = QtGui.QGridLayout()
# Creates the list box
self.client_list = QtGui.QListWidget(self)
# Populates the list box with owner data
for name in client_names.itervalues():
item = QtGui.QListWidgetItem(name)
self.client_list.addItem(item)
# Creates the login button
login_btn = QtGui.QPushButton("Login", self)
login_btn.connect(login_btn, QtCore.SIGNAL('clicked()'), self.login)
# Creates the logout button
logout_btn = QtGui.QPushButton("Logout", self)
logout_btn.connect(logout_btn, QtCore.SIGNAL('clicked()'), self.logout)
def login(self):
# Finds the owner info based on who is selected
client_name = self.client_list.currentItem().text()
client_username, client_password = get_credentials(client_name)
# Creates browser instance
driver = webdriver.Firefox()
# Logs in
driver.get('https://www.....com/login.php')
driver.find_element_by_id('userNameId').send_keys(client_username)
driver.find_element_by_id('passwordId').send_keys(client_password)
driver.find_element_by_css_selector('input[type=submit]').click()
def logout(self):
# Finds the owner info based on who is selected
client_name = self.client_list.currentItem().text()
# Logs out
driver.get('https://www....com/logout.php')
# Closes the browser instance
driver.quit()
def main():
app = QtGui.QApplication(sys.argv)
cpm = ClientAccountManager()
cpm.show()
sys.exit(app.exec_())
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
driveris a local variable inlogin()that you're not keeping anywheredriveris stored globally