DesiredCapabilities For Safari Extensions

[confusa]

Trying to load a specific Safari extension using RemoteWebDriver like so:

capabilities.setCapability("extensions", new String[] { "ZoomBySite.safariextz" });

In the logs I can see it creating the browser session with that capability, but the extension is not being loaded. What am I doing incorrectly?

TIA

[David]

I think you may be mistaken on the process to do this. It might be simplified when using the Java bindings (or C#) since those typically wrap some of the functionality for the user vs other language bindings or vs using pure RemoteWebDriver (over say SafariDriver) to work with Safari.

Per the wiki: https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/DesiredCapabilities#Safari_specific

you do pass in a string array of extensions but for the values, "Each extension should be specified as the base64 encoding of a .safariextz file". Which means you have to read in the safariextz file as binary data then do a base64 conversion to make it a string then pass that in an array as desired capabilities.

Existing firefox profiles (which can contain extensions in them already) are passed the same way as base64 string (of a zip file of the profile directory)

[confusa]

Yeah, I saw that bit in the Wiki but sort of glossed over the encoding part. So I tried this but still not loading the extension:

Path path = Paths.get("temp/ZoomBySite.safariextz");
byte[] encodedBytes = null;
try {
            byte[] bytes = Files.readAllBytes(path);
            encodedBytes = Base64.encodeBase64(bytes);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
capabilities.setCapability("extensions", new String[] { encodedBytes.toString() });

[David]

Sorry, I've not worked with Safari extensions with WebDriver. I suggest you file a bug and let it proceed from there. Since there doesn't seem to be any other replies to this thread.