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The Rookie

Reputation: 605

How to access clipboard data for automation?

I am using selenium webdriver and ruby. Long story short i am working on a web application which on click of a button copies all the data in the text field to the clipboard. I want to access that data and compare if a string is present.

I have installed clipboard and win32/clipboard gems.Here is my code

include Win32 
abc = Clipboard.data
em  = " ooyalaPlayer = OO.Player.create('playerContainer',"
puts 'true' if abc.include? em

Here is the error stack

$ jruby tests/embed_add_remove_playlist.rb -b firefox -a staging
ui-test-support will place screenshots and additional logs under:
results_dir=E:/testing/behavioral_tests/themebuilder/results
c:/jruby-1.7.4/lib/ruby/shared/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36: Use RbConfig inste
ad of obsolete and deprecated Config.
LoadError: no such file to load -- win32-clipboard
  require at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1054
  require at c:/jruby-1.7.4/lib/ruby/shared/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36
   (root) at E:/testing/behavioral_tests/themebuilder/lib/embed_helper.rb:8
  require at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1054
  require at c:/jruby-1.7.4/lib/ruby/shared/rubygems/custom_require.rb:36
   (root) at tests/embed_add_remove_playlist.rb:8

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3601

Answers (2)

l3x
l3x

Reputation: 31246

If you have access to a linux or osx system, you can do the following:

Write text to a file like this:

IO.write('/tmp/msg.txt', 'hi')

Read it back like this:

IO.read('/tmp/msg.txt')

Frequently, I want to read a file into my clipboard ***

Clipboard.copy IO.read('/tmp/msg.txt')

And other times, I want to write what's in my clipboard to a file ***

IO.write('/tmp/msg.txt', Clipboard.paste)

*** Assumes you have the clipboard gem installed

See: https://rubygems.org/gems/clipboard

Upvotes: 2

Alpha
Alpha

Reputation: 14076

First install 'win32-clipboard':

gem install win32/clipboard

Then do following :

require 'win32-clipboard'
include Win32 

abc = Clipboard.data
puts abc

Upvotes: 2

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