Get Source, Create File, Get File gives UTF-8 decoding error
Claes
1) Get source from web page
2) Save source to file
3) Get file
4) Compare saved file to source
Step 3 fails with error message utf-8 decoding error: invalid data.
(I'm running my tests on Windows Vista.)
My question: What am I doing wrong? How can I get this to work?
** Test Case **
Compare saved page to current page Open browser https://www.google.com
*firefox
${currentPage}= Get Source
Create File ${TEMPDIR}${/}google-page1.html ${currentPage}
${savedPage}= Get File ${TEMPDIR}${/}google-page1.html
Should Be Equal as Strings ${savedPage} ${currentPage}
Close Browser
** Result **
KEYWORD: ${savedPage} = OperatingSystem.Get File ${TEMPDIR}${/}google-
page1.html
Documentation: Returns the contents of a specified file.
Start / End / Elapsed: 20090126 16:00:26.391 / 20090126
16:00:26.420 / 00:00:00.029
16:00:26.397 INFO Getting file 'C:\Users\CLAPIP~1.OME\AppData\Local
\Temp\google-page1.html'
16:00:26.417 FAIL UnicodeError: utf-8 decoding error: invalid data
Pekka Klärck
>
> I wanted to try the following
> 1) Get source from web page
> 2) Save source to file
> 3) Get file
> 4) Compare saved file to source
>
> Step 3 fails with error message utf-8 decoding error: invalid data.
> (I'm running my tests on Windows Vista.)
>
> My question: What am I doing wrong? How can I get this to work?
My guess is that
1) The source you get has some other encoding than ASCII or UTF-8
2) Create File uses that encoding when writing the file (it doesn't
even accept encoding)
3) Get File uses UTF-8 encoding when reading the file (that's the default)
=> UnicodeDecodeError
You can test is my guess valid either by
- specifying a correct encoding to Get File (you should see it in the
source and the default is ISO-8859-1), or
- changing Create File to encode the given text by changing
"f.write(content)" to "f.write(content.encode('UTF-8')".
If I'm right, then the correct fix for this is adding encoding
argument to Create File keyword.
Cheers,
.peke
Claes
<head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8"><title>Google</title>
So it seems the file is UTF-8 encoded. Or?
/Claes
On 26 Jan, 16:53, Pekka Klärck <p...@iki.fi> wrote:
> 2009/1/26 Claes <claes.pi...@gmail.com>:
Pekka Klärck
>
> Inside the file I find
>
> <head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
> charset=UTF-8"><title>Google</title>
>
> So it seems the file is UTF-8 encoded. Or?
It should be UTF-8. Then the problem could also be that Get Source
doesn't decode the source correctly. Could you submit a but about this
either to Robot Framework or SeleniumLibrary issue tracker? If you
have a simple example that uses a public website it would help us
investigating it furthers.
I'll add a separate issue about Create File needing 'encode' argument.
Cheers,
.peke
Claes
Sujata Dwivedi
How you save this html source code which you get from get source command into any file.
Thanks