Application under test not properly handling deeplinks on Windows

[noahismith]

Environment

• OS: Windows 11
• Electron: 35.7.0
• Chromdriver: v134.0.6998.165
• electron-builder: 25.1.8
• wdio-electron-service: 8.2.1

Issue
I'm trying to automate some behavior within my Electron application via wdio-electron-service. I'm trying to open the application under test via a deeplink, but instead of the application launched via wdio responding to the deeplink, a 2nd application is opened and processes the deeplink.

This behavior is not observed when testing the same application manually OR when testing with MacOS builds.

I've created a repo to reproduce the issue on Windows: https://github.com/noahismith/wdio-electron-deeplinks

[goosewobbler]

@noahismith Have you tried using the unpackaged mode appEntryPoint? I've never used Electron deep links but the WDIO runner may be getting in the way here. Interesting that it works on Mac.

[noahismith]

@noahismith Have you tried using the unpackaged mode appEntryPoint? I've never used Electron deep links but the WDIO runner may be getting in the way here. Interesting that it works on Mac.

I tried using appEntryPoint instead and got a different issue. Example repo usingappEntryPoint.

[goosewobbler]

Hmmm, well this is definitely worth some attention. I may be able to get to it at some point after the v9 release. Happy to accept a PR if you manage to get a fix or workaround together.