[BUG] Device emulation not working with CLI

[transplatin]

Device emulation not working with CLI

Context:

• Playwright Version: 1.10.0
• Operating System: Windows 10
• Node.js version:v14.16.1
• Browser: Playwright Default

System:

• OS: Windows 10 10.0.19042
• Memory: 1.74 GB / 5.88 GB

Binaries:

• Node: 14.16.1 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.EXE
• npm: 6.14.12 - C:\Program Files\nodejs\npm.CMD

npmPackages:

• playwright: ^1.10.0 => 1.10.0

Code Snippet

I tried to emulate iPhone 11 using CLI but it is not working.

npx playwright open --device="iPhone 11" wikipedia.org

Error
'''
Device descriptor not found: 'iPhone', available devices are:
"Blackberry PlayBook"
"Blackberry PlayBook landscape"
"BlackBerry Z30"
"BlackBerry Z30 landscape"
"Galaxy Note 3"
"Galaxy Note 3 landscape"
"Galaxy Note II"
"Galaxy Note II landscape"
"Galaxy S III"
and so on...

Possible Issue

It seems like it is only accepting the first word of every specified device rather than accepting it as "iPhone 11", it is accepting it as "iPhone".

[mxschmitt]

I tried to reproduce it with Windows with Powershell and cmd.exe and it worked for me as expected in both cases. (I had Node.js 16 but this should not make a big difference there.)

Are you using some special terminal e.g.?

[transplatin]

I am using the command prompt.

Same issue with git bash as well.

[aslushnikov]

I can repro on one of our windows machines; looking into it!

[aslushnikov]

So turns out this is an NPX issue on Windows:

• [BUG] Quotes not respected npm/npx#43
• [BUG] npm/npx is not handling directories with spaces (on Windows) correctly npm/cli#502

This, however, is fixed in NPM v7, so that's why @mxschmitt wasn't able to reproduce.

@transplatin: the official "workaround" for this would be to install NPM v7:

$ npm i -g npm@v7

Worked for me! So closing this.

[transplatin]

Yes, updating to npm@7 solves the issue. :)