How to keep appium capabilities in json file and call in code - json

Question

Following is my appium capability set to run a test
cap = new DesiredCapabilities();
cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.PLATFORM, "Android");
cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.VERSION, "5.1.0");
cap.setCapability("deviceName", "mygeny510");
cap.setCapability("appPackage", "com.android.dialer");
cap.setCapability("appActivity", "com.android.dialer.DialtactsActivity");
driver = new AndroidDriver<MobileElement>(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), cap);
I want to keep the capabilities in a apm.json file
[
{
"platformName": "android",
"appPackage":"com.android.dialer",
"appActivity": "com.android.dialer.DialtactsActivity",
"deviceName": "mygeny510"
}
]
Now can anyone help to call the apm.json into the code instead writing each capabilities by using cap.setcapability(,)

Answer 1

You can place all the desired capabilities on to a seperate file and load the file in an other file for referencing it.
For eg,
I have the desired capabilities in env.rb
def abc
{
caps:
{
platformName: "iOS",
deviceName: "",
udid: "",
app: (File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "")),
bundleId: "",
automationName: "XCUITest",
xcodeOrgId: "",
xcodeSigningId: "",
platformVersion: "9.3.2",
noReset: "true",
fullReset: "false",
showIOSLog: "true"
}
}
end
Now you can go to the file where you want to launch this desired capabilities. For this, you would need to load the .json file into this file. I have used require_relative to load the file in order to call the method. Once you do that, you can start the session with
def AnyName
Appium::Driver.new(abc) #Pass capabilities for appium inside the driver
Appium.promote_appium_methods Object #Makes all appium_lib methods accessible from steps
$driver.start_driver #Starts appium driver before the tests begin
end
Hope this helps!