[🚀 Feature]: Configurable newline character

[RenderMichael]

Feature and motivation

I have a test which reads an element's text and asserts that it contains the expected results. This text contains newlines.

I am getting different results depending on whether the tests run on macOS or on Windows. The newlines are being modified into the native newline characters (\n or \r\n, respectively).

I would like to configure a newline character to make my tests run consistently.

Note: I am using the .NET bindings, I am unsure if this happens on other bindings or if this is a .NET-specific ask

API proposal:

public class DriverOptions
{
+    public string? NewLine { get; set; }
}

Usage example

string Expected = "Selenium Clients and WebDriver Language Bindings\r\nIn order to create scripts that interact with the Selenium Server (Remote WebDriver) or create local Selenium WebDriver scripts, you need to make use of language-specific client drivers.\r\nWhile language bindings for other languages exist, these are the core ones that are supported by the main project hosted on GitHub.";

var options = new ChromeOptions();
options.NewLine = "\r\n"; // Without this, the test fails when running on macOS

using var driver = new ChromeDriver();

driver.Url = "https://www.selenium.dev/downloads/";

Thread.Sleep(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(5));
var paragraph = driver.FindElement(By.XPath("/html/body/div/main/div[2]/div/div")).Text;

Assert.That(paragraph, Is.EqualTo(Expected));

[github-actions]

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[atmaxinger]

This would be a nice feature, as I've also been stung by this before. This seems to be the offending line:

selenium/dotnet/src/webdriver/Remote/HttpCommandExecutor.cs

Line 328 in aaf3d0b

valueString = valueString.Replace("\r\n", "\n").Replace("\n", Environment.NewLine);