[🚀 Feature]: [dotnet] Road to be AOT friendly

[nvborisenko]

Feature and motivation

Any consumer of Selenium library in .NET cannot use it within publishing his application as Native AOT Deployment.

The detailed affected parts are coming...

Selenium Manager ✅ v4.26

• Selenium Manager - [dotnet] Json serializer gen context for SM output #14481

W3C WebDriver ✅ v4.26

• New Session
• ... - [dotnet] Make classic WebDriver commands/responses AOT compatible #14574

W3C BiDi ✅ v4.28

• ... [dotnet] [bidi] Use JsonSerializerContext to be AOT friendly #15162

CDP (DevTools)

• Generate JsonSerializerContext for all DTO models
• ...

Fine tuning

• Address all analyzer warnings
• ...

Usage example

Create console app, publish as native AOT, it fails at runtime.

[github-actions]

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

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[nvborisenko]

Blocked by bazel-contrib/rules_dotnet#443

[RenderMichael]

I’m interested in this feature for running Selenium. Often times, the roads to AOT compatibility leads to improvements across the board, even for non-AOT scenarios.

[NCLnclNCL]

Blocked by bazelbuild/rules_dotnet#443

when it will be fixed

[nvborisenko]

Blocked by bazel-contrib/rules_dotnet#443

Fixed, waiting release soon.

Often times, the roads to AOT compatibility leads to improvements across the board, even for non-AOT scenarios.

Who knows potential issues... , I cannot prepare decomposed tasks to archive the goal. Our mission here is to adopt existing codebase to be ready for AOT.

The technical enabler is resolved, so the list of impacted areas will be be growing so fast soon.

[nvborisenko]

@RenderMichael are you able to test the preview version of Selenium which seems is compatible with AOT (excepting CDP)? Your input would be valuable. I can share nuget package file here (built locally).

[RenderMichael]

@nvborisenko I would be happy to test out the AOT compatibility of Selenium :)

[nvborisenko]

Selenium.WebDriver.4.26.0-nightly202409202352.zip

@RenderMichael This is zip, which contains nupkg inside. I built it locally, and hoping you know what to do with it.

[nvborisenko]

@RenderMichael @NCLnclNCL please don't forget to share results. Thanks guys.

[RenderMichael]

@nvborisenko Unfortunately the app crashed as soon as I tried running the native .exe file:

I can't give more detailed feedback without building the library locally. Are there any instructions I can follow to build the .NET bindings locally? A while back I tried to do so following this guide but ran into some blockers (I no longer remember what they were).

Edit: it was my error