Has anyone managed to get Botium working with Cucumber for Java? - selenium-webdriver

Question

I've tried my best to get Botium to work with BDD so I can see if its useful but the only BDD example I've come across is this https://github.com/codeforequity-at/botium-bdd-samples/
But I'm unable to install the dependencies with NPM install so I was wondering if its possible to get Botium to work with cucumber for java on intellij?
I've tried to install botium with the js example but I continue to get errors with NPM
gyp ERR! build error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\MSBuild\15.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\build.js:262:23)
gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13)
gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:248:12)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.16299
gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "build" "--fallback-to-build" "--library=static_library" "--module=C:\\Users\\sahmed248\\IdeaProjects\\botium-bdd-samples\\node_modules\\grpc\\src\\node\\extension_binary\\node-v64-win32-x64-unknown\\grpc_node.node" "--module_name=grpc_node" "--module_path=C:\\Users\\sahmed248\\IdeaProjects\\botium-bdd-samples\\node_modules\\grpc\\src\\node\\extension_binary\\node-v64-win32-x64-unknown"
gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\sahmed248\IdeaProjects\botium-bdd-samples\node_modules\grpc
gyp ERR! node -v v10.15.3
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
node-pre-gyp ERR! build error
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js build --fallback-to-build --library=static_library --module=C:\Users\sahmed248\IdeaProjects\botium-bdd-samples\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary\node-v64-win32-x64-unknown\grpc_node.node --module_name=grpc_node --module_path=C:\Users\sahmed248\IdeaProjects\botium-bdd-samples\node_modules\grpc\src\node\extension_binary\node-v64-win32-x64-unknown' (1)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (C:\Users\sahmed248\IdeaProjects\botium-bdd-samples\node_modules\grpc\node_modules\node-pre-gyp\lib\util\compile.js:83:29)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:970:16)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:259:5)
node-pre-gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.16299
node-pre-gyp ERR! command "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\sahmed248\\IdeaProjects\\botium-bdd-samples\\node_modules\\grpc\\node_modules\\node-pre-gyp\\bin\\node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build" "--library=static_library"
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd C:\Users\sahmed248\IdeaProjects\botium-bdd-samples\node_modules\grpc
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v10.15.3
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.6.39
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok
If anyone is able to either help me solve the issue with NPM or explain how to use Botium with cucumber for Java that would be helpful.

Answer 1

Botium Core is a Node.js library, so using it with Java is tricky, but not impossible: Botium supports a special "Grid mode", where it runs in the background and exposes a HTTP/JSON interface - see here for more info.
For your installation problem, here some hints what you can try - obviously the node-gyp package fails:
* remove the node_modules folder and the package-lock.json file and run npm install again
* run "npm install -g node-gyp" with admin privileges
* run "npm install -g windows-build-tools" with admin privileges
(see https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp)