RE: [selenium-users] How to automate a file upload from OSx file upload dialog box

[Mark Collin]

Just perform a sendKeys() on a WebElement that is an <input type=”file”>.

 

Don’t try clicking on it.

 

From: seleniu...@googlegroups.com [mailto:seleniu...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anu S
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Subject: [selenium-users] How to automate a file upload from OSx file upload dialog box

 

Hi,
I need to automate a file upload from My computers in OS. Scenario as follows. 1). Select Browse button but that file name box is disabled until I select a file 2). select some directory structure and select that file. 3. Now select enabled Open button of Macs default file upload dialog box. 3. Now file appears in type=file input box. Pls HELP. Tried all,
-Anu

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[ASP]

you could do something like 

webDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@id='fileContent']")).sendKeys("filepath");

ASP

[David]

Do note that since Mac OS is mentioned, if the browser is Safari, and using WebDriver, file uploads are not supported by SafariDriver.

Should be ok for other browsers as others have mentioned how to do it.

[Naveen]

Hi,

If it is an input field, I could use Sendkeys method. But, what if there is an UPLOAD button which prompts for MAC OS dialog box.

In Windows machine we can do this with AutoIT tool. But I didn't find any support for MAC to handle these type of dialogue boxes.

Please let me know If there is any way.

Thanks,

Naveen

[Krishnan Mahadevan]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3485254/equivalent-of-autoit-for-mac-os-x

http://alternativeto.net/software/autoit/?platform=mac

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[Panikera Raj]

Hi Naveen,

 

You can use Sikuli tool. Here you can find the sikuli standalone .jar fie 

 
https://code.google.com/p/sikuli-api/downloads/detail?name=sikuli-api-1.0.2-standalone.jar&can=2&q

 

Add to your project directory and use it.

 

 

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Panikera

 

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[Gadigeppa Jattennavar]

When you click on ‘Choose File’ button, OS native file select dialog will be opened. This dialog will not be recognized by your driver, so when uploading any file you should never click on ‘Choose File’ button. Instead, use sendkeys to select the file,

WebElement El = driver.findElement(By.id("'fileUploadField'"));
El.sendKeys("c:\\temp\\test.txt");

This will select your file without having to select it through file select dialog. This works flawlessly across all supported drivers.

If you are running your test on grid then you should let your remote driver know that the file is residing on local machine and not remote machine. This can be achieved by setting LocalFileDetector for RemoteWebElement,

WebElement El = driver.findElement(By.id("'fileUploadField'"));
((RemoteWebElement) El ).setFileDetector(new LocalFileDetector());
El.sendKeys("c:\\temp\\test.txt");

Here you are setting local file detector for file upload element, so whenever you use sendkeys on this element, your RemoteWebDriver uses this file detector object to detect the file. If the file is detected then it will be base64 encoded and uploaded to remote server through JSON Wire Protocol and the remote fixed path will be selected as a file path.

Please check my blog http://muthutechno.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/uploading-files-in-selenium-webdriver/

[Vinothkumar Velusamy]

U can also try using Robot() class based on keyboard events...

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