How to stop Appium server using nodeJs in Java

Question

I am trying to start and stop Appium server programmatically.

I have nodeJS installed in my system.

For starting the server I am using "appium" command in a batch file and running that batch file using Java.

For stopping the server:

    Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
    runtime.exec("taskkill /F /IM node.exe");

But by using taskKill server is not killing.

Please suggest any methods by which I can stop the running Appium server.

Answer 1

There are two ways through which you can start & stop the appium server as,

1. With java methods by using start & stop server as,

  private AppiumDriver<?> driver;
  private AppiumDriverLocalService appiumDriverLocalService;
  private static final String NODE_FILE_PATH = "/usr/local/bin/node";
  private static final String APPIUM_FILE_PATH = "/usr/local/bin/appium";

  public void startAppiumServer() {
    Map<String, String> environment = new HashMap();
    environment.put("PATH", "/usr/local/bin:" + System.getenv("PATH"));
    AppiumServiceBuilder appiumServiceBuilder = new AppiumServiceBuilder();
    appiumServiceBuilder.usingAnyFreePort();
    appiumServiceBuilder.usingDriverExecutable(new File(NODE_FILE_PATH));
    appiumServiceBuilder.withAppiumJS(new File(APPIUM_FILE_PATH));
    appiumServiceBuilder.withEnvironment(environment);
    appiumDriverLocalService = AppiumDriverLocalService.buildService(appiumServiceBuilder);
    appiumDriverLocalService.start();
  }

  public void stopAppiumServer() {
    appiumDriverLocalService.stop();
  }

2. And, if you want to kill the appium server threads with shell command, you can use this as below, sudo kill $(ps aux | grep -i appium | awk '{print $2}')