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M3rr1
M3rr1

Reputation: 159

File upload with Selenium WebDriver and FF24

I am facing an issue with the file upload with WebDriver, using Java, on Firefox 24. And I can NOT use some external program like AutoIT or similar.

I have to upload a file to a section which's HTML code is:

<td>
<input type="file" name="file">
</td>

And what I was using in Eclipse is

pageObject.getTypeFileLocation().sendKeys(textFile);
pageObject.getUploadButton.click();

which does not work; also tried the first answer of this question but neither did the trick.

The test returns 'OK', but I suspected that nothing was being done so added a check to wait for 'Upload complete' text present; But the file is not uploaded, and timeouts after 20 seconds, even when the file to upload is 5KB and takes less than a second when manually uploaded. The input=file section contains a button and a 'No File Selected' text that changes to the filepath when a file is selected manually; and this is in what I am basing my idea that the file is not being upload; because the 'No File Selected' remains until the test fails.

I tried this on Chrome and seems to be working fine, and I know that there have been some reworks about input=file in FF since release 23, but mostly pointed to CSS styling, so I don't think it's related.

Also, a question that might sound kind of stupid, but questions are questions: Doesn't the sendKeys() action need a field to input those keys? I feel that the WebDriver is trying to write the path over a button, which can't perform the action as it's only a button.

Any help will be appreciated, and thanks in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1818

Answers (1)

M3rr1
M3rr1

Reputation: 159

Solved it!

Don't know if it works for all browsers, but at least it does on FF and Chrome:

Found out that somebody used the FILE type, so reused it and got its absolute path:

protected File *fileName* = new File("*path to file*");
private String textFile = *fileName*.getAbsolutePath(); 
pageObject.getInput().sendKeys(textFile);

Hope somebody else finds it useful; as it's weird to be answering my own question.

Upvotes: 3

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