[🐛 Bug]: Console logs returned as zero using RemoteDriver (SeleniumGrid) .NET Selenium

[sponnusamyneogov]

What happened?

This code is not functioning correctly when using RemoteWebDriver with Selenium Grid.

[Test]
public void ConsoleLogsGridRun()
{
var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.SetLoggingPreference(LogType.Browser, OpenQA.Selenium.LogLevel.All);
var Driver = new RemoteWebDriver(
new Uri("http://10.0.0.37:8888/"),
new RemoteSessionSettings(options), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(100));
Driver.Url = "https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/web/bidi/logEntryAdded.html";

Driver.FindElement(By.Id("consoleLog")).Click();
Driver.FindElement(By.Id("consoleError")).Click();

var jsErrors = Driver.Manage().Logs.GetLog(LogType.Browser);
}

Please advise

How can we reproduce the issue?

[Test]
public void ConsoleLogsGridRun()
{
var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.SetLoggingPreference(LogType.Browser, OpenQA.Selenium.LogLevel.All);
var Driver = new RemoteWebDriver(
new Uri("http://10.0.0.37:8888/"),
new RemoteSessionSettings(options), TimeSpan.FromSeconds(100));
Driver.Url = "https://www.selenium.dev/selenium/web/bidi/logEntryAdded.html";

Driver.FindElement(By.Id("consoleLog")).Click();
Driver.FindElement(By.Id("consoleError")).Click();

var jsErrors = Driver.Manage().Logs.GetLog(LogType.Browser);
}

Relevant log output

jsErrors returned as null

Operating System

Windows 10

Selenium version

Selenium Version 4.25.0

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

Chrome

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

129.0.6668.71

Are you using Selenium Grid?

Selenium Grid 4.25.0

[github-actions]

@sponnusamyneogov, thank you for creating this issue. We will troubleshoot it as soon as we can.

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[nvborisenko]

Confirmed, Driver.Manage().Logs.GetLog(LogType.Browser); even doesn't make http call to a remote.

[nvborisenko]

@diemol @pujagani do you know whether it should be supported by remote?

[nvborisenko]

I found this one: w3c/webdriver#406 where it is recommended to use BiDi implementation.

Now the correct question is: should we be silent here? And don't throw exception? In my opinion we should always throw if something is not supported.

@sponnusamyneogov your way is only trying out BiDi (already available as nightly build or wait next release).

[pujagani]

Java supports in remote so probably it should be supported too. One use case that I can think of is, users also use the Appium server with the Selenium client libraries and they will not be able to use BiDi in this case.

[nvborisenko]

Then it should be implemented for RemoteWebDriver too, thanks for the info.