Downloading a file and verify that file was successfully downloaded

[antonio III cabreira]

Hi,

Here's the scenario, I need to download a file from a web application and then I have to verify that it was successfully downloaded by locating the downloaded file in my Windows operated machine. Is there a library that could do this in robot framework? 

Thanks!

[Hi-Fi]

Not directly. I have used Wget myself, where downloading can be handled with keyword (for pages that need credentials, so getting the JSESSION (at this case) from cookie and using it.:

Download a file

    [Arguments]    ${cookie}    ${URL}    ${outputName}

    ${cookieValue} =    Get Cookie Value    ${cookie}

    ${outputDir} =    Set Variable    ${EMPTY}

    ${rc}    ${output}    Run And Return Rc And Output    wget --cookies=on --header "Cookie: ${cookie}=${cookieValue}" -O ${outputName} ${URL}

    Log    ${rc}

    Log    ${output}

    Move File    ${outputName}    /tmp/

[Hi-Fi]

And some improvement; this creates the file always, even wget return error / some other code than 200.

So what's needed is to count lines containing error / parse response from server code. 

That can be done directly with grep (when ${output} can be used direcly), or with the help of String -library (which helps if tests needs to be run eg. in windows, where grep isn't present).

So basivcally new keyword:

Get line count containing string

    [Arguments]    ${string}    ${match}

    ${lines} =     Get Lines Containing String    ${string}    ${match}

    ${lineCount} =     Get Line Count    ${lines}

    [Return]    ${lineCount}

And checking lineCount (if >0, fail the test).

Br,

Juho