Clear cookies per each test in PhantomJS+GhostDriver+WebDriver client configuration - cookies

Question

How can I clear cookies for each tests in my PhantomJS + GhostDriver + Selenium WebDriver + WebDriver Client system?
My test process looks like this:
Start selenium-web-driver-standalone in hub role.
Start phantomjs in webdriver mode and attach it to selenium
webdriver.
Start shell script that iterates over tests suites and start each.
Each test uses webdriver client and communicate with browser
connected to selenium web driver.
When I use firefox browser instead of phantomjs all tests passed ok. But when I switch to using phantomjs as browser all tests that checked registration failed because cookies already set after first test execution. Can I clear all cookies on every test start up? Or I should to restart phantomjs process on every separate test (as this is with firefox and selenium webdriver in not hub role)?

Answer 1

Maybe some offtopic, cause author marked that he uses php to run test.
But if you came from google and interested in C# solution to clear all cookies, look below:
// driver is fully initialized PhantomJS instance
driver.Manage().Cookies.DeleteAllCookies();
Requires NuGetPackages:
PhantomJS 2.0.0
Selenium.Support 2.48.2
Selenium.WebDriver 2.48.2
Tested with .NETFramework v4.5.2

Answer 2

You can delete specific cookie using:
webDriver.manage().deleteCookieNamed("smSession");
And to delete all the cookies using:
webDriver.manage().deleteAllCookies();

Answer 3

I had similar problem with GhostDriver not being able to clear localStorage. Try these suggestions:
After you driver.get(URL) to your page, you can execute javascript in
it from webdriver, like this
function clearCookie(name, domain, path){
var domain = domain || document.domain;
var path = path || "/";
document.cookie = name + "=; expires=" + +new Date + "; domain=" + domain + "; path=" + path;
};
There is no 100% solution to delete browser cookies.
The problem is that cookies are uniquely identified by not just by
their key "name" but also their "domain" and "path".
Without knowing the "domain" and "path" of a cookie, you cannot
reliably delete it. This information is not available through
JavaScript's document.cookie. It's not available through the HTTP
Cookie header either!
However, if you know the name, path and domain of a cookie, then you
can clear it by setting an empty cookie with an expiry date in the
past
Resources:
https://sqa.stackexchange.com/a/10468
https://stackoverflow.com/a/2421786/572348