Selenium WebDriverException: unknown error: call function result missing 'value' while calling sendkeys method

Question

When trying to call Sendkeys method in selenium webdriver it is displaying below error:

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: unknown error: call function result missing 'value'  
 (Session info: chrome=65.0.3325.146)  
 (Driver info: chromedriver=2.27.440174 (e97a722caafc2d3a8b807ee115bfb307f7d2cfd9),platform=Windows NT 6.1.7600 x86_64) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

Selenium Jarversion: 3.10.0

Answer 1

An older version of the ChromeDriver is being spun off when the test is being run; to remedy:

• Ensure that you've gotten your browser up to date (v65-67) and get the latest version of the ChromeDriver executable(v2.38)
• Extract the ChromeDriver and explicitly set the System property when initializing the ChromeDriver object...

Ex:

1. System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/path/to/chromedriver.exe");
2. WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();