Using Selenium 2.0 with WebDriver and Safari

I've been looking at Selenium 2.0 and writing test cases using WebDriver. Looking at the APIs I see there is a class for Android, iPhone, InternetExplorer, Firefox and Chrome which extends the RemoteWebDriver.

So how do I use Safari? The code to set the search string for Google, using WebDriver, would be:

WebDriver browser = new FirefoxDriver();

browser.get("http://www.google.com");
WebElement input = browser.findElement(By.name("q"));
input.sendKeys("Selenium");

If I wanted to do the same thing using Safari web browser, I could use:

Selenium browser = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*safari", "http://www.google.com");

browser.type(name("q"), "Selenium");

The problem with this is I need to do things differently for Safari. I have to use Selenium 1.0 commands to test Safari and Selenium 2.0 for everything else. So how can I use a browser which was supported in Selenium 1.0 with all the Selenium 2.0 APIs?

The solution is:

Selenium sel = new DefaultSelenium("localhost", 4444, "*safari", baseURL);
CommandExecutor executor = new SeleneseCommandExecutor(sel);
DesiredCapabilities dc = new DesiredCapabilities();
WebDriver browser = new RemoteWebDriver(executor, dc);

browser.get("http://www.google.com");
WebElement input = browser.findElement(By.name("q"));
input.sendKeys("Selenium");

If you look at this block of code, the last 3 lines are the same as the last three lines of the first block of code. Essentially, I add the first three lines then change the WebDriver declaration to a new RemoteWebDriver.

The one thing I found however, on my Mac OS X, if I started the SeleniumServer with setSingleWindow(false) it would fail to work. I run my SeleniumServer inside my Java code using:

private static SeleniumServer ss;
private static RemoteControlConfiguration rcc;

@BeforeClass
public static void setUpBeforeClass() throws Exception {
rcc = new RemoteControlConfiguration();
rcc.setInteractive(true);
rcc.setSingleWindow(true);
rcc.setTimeoutInSeconds(10);
ss = new SeleniumServer(rcc);
ss.start();
}

If you are running the SeleniumServer from the command line, you'll have to look at the command line options to ensure you are running in Single Window mode.