WDM caches version of installed browser for too long

[asolntsev]

Description of the problem:
WDM caches version of installed browser for 24 hours by default.
It's too long!

Every time when Chrome upgrades (e.g. from 81 to 83 today), people continue to get famous "this chromedriver supports only chrome 81" error for a whole day!

Look at file ~/.m2/repository/webdriver/resolution.properties:

chrome=81
chrome-ttl=18\:21\:16 23/05/2020 EEST

(but my Chrome browser already upgraded to version 83).

Solution:
I suggest to introduce another setting like wdm.ttl.for-installed-browser=300 in addition to wdm.ttl=86400. It's cheap to check the version of installed browser. It's ok to check it once in every 5 minutes or so.

Browser and version: any
Operating system: any
WebDriverManager version: 4.0.0, 3.8.x

WebDriverManager use:

WebDriverManager.chrome().setup();

[ckempster]

Have also seen this issue,WDM caches version of installed browser for 24 hours by default.

[bonigarcia]

Thanks for reporting @asolntsev. Indeed maybe TTL=1day makes sense for driver versions, but perhaps it is too much for browser versions. Let me think about it (together with #484)

[bonigarcia]

This is available in WebDriverManager 4.1.0, just released.