Testing PDF using Selenium in headless mode

[Techno Park]

Could anyone give me a hand here? I need to verify the contents of a pdf file. So, I click on a button to open a pdf file which opens in a new tab. And, I need to verify the contents. I have given below the sample code which works in 'non-headless' mode (Chrome), but not in 'headless' which is what I want.  I use Java and the plugin used is pdfBox.  The error I get is "  org.openqa.selenium.remote.UnreachableBrowserException: Error communicating with the remote browser. It may have died."  The error points to this line of code --> URL url = new URL(webDriver.getCurrentUrl());

    webDriver.get("https://irl.umsl.edu/oer/24/"); 

//Below link opens in a new tab        
        webDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[normalize-space()='Download']")).click();
        ArrayList<String> tabs = new ArrayList<String>(webDriver.getWindowHandles());
        webDriver.switchTo().window(tabs.get(1));
        URL url = new URL(webDriver.getCurrentUrl());
        InputStream in = url.openStream();
        BufferedInputStream bf = new BufferedInputStream(in);
        PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(bf);
        String content = new PDFTextStripper().getText(doc);
        Assert.assertTrue(content.contains("Intercultural Communication"));  

[Andrei Solntsev]

Hi Techno Park!

Let me recommend you library "pdf-test" which allows you to parse and verify PDF documents.

github.com/codeborne/pdf-test

It's API is very simple:

  @Test
  public void canAssertThatPdfContainsText() {

    File file = $("a#report").download(); // just download the file using Selenium or Selenide methods
    PDF pdf = new PDF(file);
    assertThat(pdf, containsText("50 Quick Ideas to Improve your User Stories"));
  }

Andrei Solntsev

пн, 22 февр. 2021 г. в 11:31, Techno Park <sunil.does...@gmail.com>:

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