Clear the browser cache in Quantum

For various reasons, the standard approaches do not work in the latest Quantum projects. For example, clearing the cache for Chrome using URL chrome://settings/clearBrowserData does not work because of limitations related to Selenium version 3 and later. This results in an exception (invalid URI). Due to security reasons, the driver.get() method accesses only URLs that start with the http:// protocol in Selenium 3 and later.

Because Quantum always uses the latest Selenium version, and it is not possible to downgrade it, you have the following options:

• Downgrade the Quantum version. This is not a good idea because of bug fixes and features introduced in the new versions

• Use the following code as a function called as part of your clear cache step. This option works for all browsers.

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      public static void jsClearLocalStorage() {
  
          getQAFDriver().get("Your URL to delete the Cache for");
          getQAFDriver().manage().deleteAllCookies();
  
          try {
                 Thread.sleep(5000);
          } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                 e.printStackTrace();
          }
  
          JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) getQAFDriver();
          System.out.println("--Local Storage Clear Start--");
          js.executeScript(String.format("window.localStorage.clear();"));
          js.executeScript(String.format("window.sessionStorage.clear();"));
          System.out.println("--Local Storage Clear End--");
  
      }