This makes it much nicer to use `BrowserType` because it no longer has a template.
Technically a breaking change because of the rare edge case where someone used their own non-browser type inside the template, but I don't consider that intended behavior and think this is fine.
Browser registry is responsible for 3 things:
1. Remove downloaded browsers if there are no packages that refer to them
2. Install default browsers needed for the current package
3. Install browsers on-demand when used through Playwright CLI
Currently, registry relies on a single "download" field in `browsers.json`
to carry both (1) and (2). However, browsers in (3) are marked as
`download: false` so that they aren't installed automatically in (2), so
auto-remove procedure in (1) removes them on subsequent installation.
One possible approach to fix this would be modifying package's `browsers.json` to
change `download: false` to `true` when browsers are installed with
Playwright CLI. This approach was explored here:
bc04a51800
We decided against this since we have a history of issues related to
package modifications after NPM installation. This breaks all
sorts of yarn/npm caching mechanisms.
Instead, this patch is a two-step refactor:
- remove the "download" field in `browsers.json`. Now, all registries
(including old ones from previously-released versions) will retain any
browsers that are mentioned in the `browsers.json`.
- add a new flag "installByDefault", that is **only used** for default
installation.
With this change, the registry tasks are done like this:
- (1) auto-removal: if browser has a back reference, it is retained,
otherwise it is removed from registry
- (2) default installation: use only `installByDefault` to carry default installations
- (3) CLI installation: simply installs browsers. Since we retain
everythings that's referenced in (1), browsers aren't removed.
Fixes#5902
We get relative registry path when PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH or HOME is relative.
In this case, it would be good to resolve to the same absolute path
during installation and execution, and we can usually do that using INIT_CWD.
- Introduce internal "out of process" start()/stop() mode.
- This mode is used both in regular tests and installation tests.
- Emulate basic driver installation, browser download and running.
This patch starts downloading FFMPEG like we download our browsers
instead of bundling it in the NPM package.
With this patch, NPM size is reduced from 8.8MB to 1.7MB.
Consequences:
- `npx playwright` is drastically faster now
- playwright driver for language bindings is way smaller
- projects that bundle Playwright can pass Apple Notorization
Fixes#5193
- Allow specifying which browsers to install. This comes handy in playwright-cli.
- Print "npx playwright" as a tool name in help messages, instead of "cli".
Currently, `playwright-core` installation would check browser registry
and remove any unused browsers. This, however, might be unexpected
since `playwright-core` shouldn't touch browser registry at all.
Fixes#4083
- This leaves just `recordVideos` and `videoSize` options on the context.
- Videos are saved to `artifactsPath`. We also save their ids to trace.
- `context.close()` waits for the processed videos.
This patch:
- moves ffmpeg binaries from `//bin/` to `//third_party/ffmpeg`
- adds [COPYING.GPLv3](https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/blob/master/COPYING.GPLv3)
ffmpeg license
- changes npm packaging to include `//third_party/ffmpeg` only in `playwright` and `playwrihgt-chromium` a
This patch:
- adds FFMPEG binaries to the NPM packages
- adds a screencast test to make sure that screencast works. This currently relies on private screencast APIs.
NOTE: with this patch playwright package size grows from `650KB` to `4.2MB`.
This patch:
- stop relying on stdout from `//packages/build_package.js` to get
output paths. This was a legacy code that's not needed anymore
- remove stray output from `//packages/build_package.js`
The reason for this change is that in Playwright Python we would need the related `protocol.yml` and `api.md` for the installed NPM package. For that we could either add the Git hash to the released package e.g. as a file (and go over the GitHub repo to get the file content) but Pavel proposed that it might be better to include the two files in the NPM package.
Tested locally by adding to the `utils/publish_all_packages.sh` script `--dry` to the NPM publish commands.
cc @aslushnikov @pavelfeldman
Related issues: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python/pull/101 and https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-python/pull/96
This makes it easier to reason about our packages.
The only difference is what each package downloads.
When the browser is not downloaded, it will fail to launch.
Each browser gets a 'download' attribute in the browser.json file.
This patch:
- drops dependency on playwright-core in all our packages. Instead of
the dependency, packages are now built with `//packages/build_package.sh`
script.
- unifies `browsers.json` - now there's a single `//browsers.json` file
that is used to manage browser revisions.
This patch temporary switches canary publishing to `--dryn-run` from CI/CD so that we
can verify that it does sane things.
We'll unify all our package management scripts under `//packages/` in a
follow-up.
Fixes#2268
This patch removes the `PLAYWRIGHT_GLOBAL_INSTALL=1` variable
and instead introduces a new var - `PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH`.
You can specify `PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH` to affect where playwright
installs browsers and where it looks for browsers.
Fixes#1102
You can install playwright with
```
PLAYWRIGHT_GLOBAL_INSTALL=1 npm i playwright
```
to make it use a single shared location for all browser
downloads.
Fixes#1102
This generates typescript definitions based on the api.md, instead of autogenerating them from the typescript source code.
Now types
- only include the public api
- work with older versions of typescript
- include descriptions
- are more consistent
- are more complete
#6
This patch:
- removes `browserType.downloadBrowserIfNeeded()` method. The method
turned out to be ill-behaving and cannot not be used as we'd like to (see #1085)
- adds a `browserType.setExecutablePath` method to set a browser
exectuable.
With this patch, we take the following approach towards managing browser downloads:
- `playwright-core` doesn't download any browsers. In `playwright-core`, `playwright.chromium.executablePath()` returns `null` (same for firefox and webkit).
- clients of `playwright-core` (e.g. `playwright` and others) download browsers one way or another.
They can then configure `playwright` with executable paths and re-export the `playwright` object to their clients.
- `playwright`, `playwright-firefox`, `playwright-chromium` and `playwright-webkit` download
browsers. Once browsers are downloaded, their executable paths are saved to a `.downloaded-browsers.json` file. This file is read in `playwright/index.js` to configure browser executable paths and re-export the API.
- special case is `install-from-github.js` that also cleans up old browsers.
This patch starts respecting `PLAYWRIGHT_DOWNLOAD_HOST` env variable
in `playwright` package and it's vendored flavors (`playwright-firefox`,
`playwright-chromium` and `playwright-webkit`).
Fixes#1045
Playwright API is parametrized with a `downloadPath` - a path that
is used to download browsers and to look for downloaded browsers.
This patch starts respecting `downloadPath` as part of
`download-browser.js` utility.
This patch makes it so all our packages, like `playwright` and
browser-specific flavors, download browsers to their
directories rather then using directory of `playwright-core`.
This way yarn@1 caches are not busted: they didn't expect that directory
content might change after packages's explicit install step
is failed, there's that was what we were doing.
Fixes#1085
* feat: change vendor package exports
This patch changes top-level exports for the vendor-specific
packages:
- `playwright-chromium`: now exports an object with a single `chromium`
field
- `playwright-wekbit`: now exports an object with a single `webkit`
- `playwright-firefox`: now exports an object with a single `firefox`
Fixes#814
* fix typo
* address comments
## playwright-chromium
- installs chromium
- exposes chromium api from playwright-core
## playwright-firefox
- installs firefox
- exposes firefox api from playwright-core
## playwright-webkit
- installs webkit
- exposes webkit api from playwright-core
## playwright-core
- downloads no browsers
- contains all of the js code
- designed for internal use
## playwright
- downloads all browsers
- exposes the entire api from playwright-core
## github
- downloads all browsers, generates protocol definitions, builds typescript
- exposes "playwright-core" api
