My requirement, after cliking on the Export button, os save dialog appears where i need to select the download path and save it. Also i need to wait till the file download complete to make sure that the file is downloaded successfully.
I have used Selenium Webdriver till cliking on the Export button, I have handled the os save dialog for firefox browser by setting the firefox profile preferences to auto downlaod the file to the provided path. File starts downloading, but am stuck in verifying the status of file download. My file size varies and hence i cant wait for some time and check in the downlaod path, if the file exists. Also i will be not knowing the file name while exporting and #href attribute of Export button doesnot provide any url info.
can i use AutoIT? as am working on Windows platform.
I need to implement the above in IE, Chrome browsers as well. Pls let me know the possible solutions to handle the os save dialog and to verify the status of file download.
See if this helps: http://imobiliarerolabs.tumblr.com/post/64859016557/how-to-use-sikuli-when-automating-tests-with-selenium
It's Sikuli and can be used with Selenium.
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Want to verify that the file is getting downloaded in actual or not not just success message pop-up validation
I considered using file.exist() in my code but that checks locally wher my code is being executed. Also I considered opening default Download location in browser and get page source and do check contains but with that aproach I stuck with getting the node system's username (without it i can define the exact path to open in browser e.g. C://Users/<username>/Downloads. Also tried opening chrome://downloads in browser but downloading source from there doesn't contain file name :(
is there any in general way to access system files of node system etc.
Before and after download check file's modified date
Another way is to check the file path where the file is getting downloaded.
You can use the os module in Node.js to get the current user's home directory after that append the path to the download location
(e.g. "Downloads" on Windows and Mac, "~/Downloads" on Linux).
I ran webdriver, everything was great, until OS file browser pop-ups and webdriver can't interact with it so it can't automatically choose the file on file browser.
So how can I choose the file on file browser automatically?
Did you click an upload button?
Instead you'll want to find the input element with the type 'file'. Once you've located this, perform a send keys command with the file location.
E.g.
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[#type='file']")).sendKeys("File Location") ;
I have an "Export" button so after click on it the .csv file with some data is downloaded.
Is there a way to test in Selenium2 the following points:
The file is downloaded after click on the "Export" button
The downloaded file is a .csv format file.
File data is correct. (There are three columns, let them be Column1, Column2, Column3 )
I will really appreciate all of the suggestions on how to do the tings above using Java.
Actually, It is not possible to handle the Native windows using the selenium web driver. You can go for the third party tool like AutoIT to resolve this kind of issue.
For more info on AutoIT Tutorial and this too.
In firefox also you can do the same thing.
Create one firefox profile
Change the firefox download setting as it should save files without asking about location to save
Launch the automation using that profile.
FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile(profileDir);
driver=new FirefoxDriver(profile);
below you can see how to change firefox file download settings
And then by using by some programming language you can do remaining things
Checking format
Verification of content
Integrate Sikuli library in your test script. You can easily compare through snapshot.
I'm using Selenium 2.21.0 with Java 6. How do I use the Selenium WebDriver API to download a file on a web page? That is, there is a link that causes the download of an Excel file to start. I would like to know how to initiate that download, determine when its finished, and then figure out where the file got downloaded to on my local system.
Once you click on any link to download a file, it depends on browsers behaviour like
Chrome Behaviour: It will start downloading the file by default, as soon as the user click on the link of any file.
IE Behaviour: IE displays a bar at the bottom of the window and displays the option to Save or Cancel the file download.
FireFox Behaviour: This will display an dialog box window and displays the option to Save or Cancel the file download.
So this can be achieved with the help of FireFox Profile.
And Before downloading any file you have to pass the MIME type of the file to FireFox Profile.
Some of the commonly used MIME types are:
Text File (.txt) – text/plain
PDF File (.pdf) – application/pdf
CSV File (.csv) – text/csv
MS Excel File (.xlsx) – application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
MS word File (.docx) – application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
HERE IS THE CODE:
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile;
public class DownloadFiles {
public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException {
//Create FireFox Profile object
FirefoxProfile p = new FirefoxProfile();
//Set Location to store files after downloading.
profile.setPreference("browser.download.folderList", 2);
//Set preference not to file confirmation dialogue
profile.setPreference("browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk",
"application/vnd.openxmlformats-
officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet");
// Specify the local system path where to download
p.setPreference("browser.download.dir", "D:\\downloads");
// Pass Profile parameters in Firefox browser
FirefoxDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(profile);
// Open APP to download application
driver.get("http://url");
// Click to download
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//html[#attribute='value']")).click();
Thread.sleep(5000);
driver.close();
Hope it will solve your queries. Happy coding.
I am specifically focusing of the Firefox browser you can use where the download option comes with pop up option when any download link is been click by the visitor. It is shows two buttons and two radio button that gives us the option of save and open the file directly without downloading it afterwards if we find the file is useful we can download it explicitly though the download icon on the above toolbar of the Firefox browser.
So you can perform the following steps
1) Clicking on the download link
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.findElement(By.linkText(“somelink”)).click();
The above code can help the WebDriver to identify the object and perform the action which is mentioned
2) Once the download link is clicked the firefox browser will pop up a download dialog box with multiple option
Like Save radio button, open radio button, ok button, cancel button inorder to use this
You can use the Robot class or the Keys in the WebDriver
Like
Robot r = new Robot();
r.KeyPress(KeyEvent.VK_TAB);
you can use as many time the above code to press the tab button
r.KeyRelease(KeyEvent.VK_TAB);
you have to release the pressed key
lastly perform the enter
r.KeyPress(KeyEvent.VK_ENTER);
That’s it it will help you to download the object when the download link is pressed
Hope it will help you
Every time I click a Java Webstart button, Firefox downloads the JNLP file and puts it in my Downloads folder. I have over 500 JNLP files from my JWS app called name-123.jnlp and so on. Internet Explorer doesn't do this, is there a way to stop Firefox from doing it ? I'm the app's developer, so server side changes are possible too.
Additional info: I set the mime type correctly on the server.
You can try following
In your Firefox browser, go to Edit >> Preferences >> Applications, in Content Type select the option "use other" for jnlp files
2.In the dialog box, select the "javaws" file location (for me, it was located in "/usr/java/jre1.6.0_16/bin")
I have it working on Ubuntu