Handling OS windows in Ubuntu without using Robot class (Selenium)

Question

I am running my selenium scripts from Jenkins, which when executed runs on a machine specifically dedicated to Selenium Tests. But I have a problem. There are some actions as stated below, which I am performing using Robot class:

1) Click on image upload icon. 2) The window (file upload) pertaining to Ubuntu OS opens. 3) I have to past the location of the image. 4) And click on open.

All this works fine on a local machine. But fails on a remote machine because of the limitation of Robot class.

Can anyone please help me to overcome this?

I have attached a snapshot for better clarity.

<div class="dropify-wrapper">
    <div class="dropify-message">
        <span class="file-icon"/>
        <p>Drag and drop a file here or click</p>
        <p class="dropify-error">Sorry, this file is too large</p>
    </div>
    <input id="category_tile_upload" class="dropify" data-default-file="" type="file"/>
    <button class="dropify-clear" type="button">Remove</button>
    <div class="dropify-preview">
        <span class="dropify-render"/>
        <div class="dropify-infos">
            <div class="dropify-infos-inner">
                <p class="dropify-filename">
                    <span class="file-icon"/>
                    <span class="dropify-filename-inner"/>
                </p>
                <p class="dropify-infos-message">Drag and drop or click to replace</p>
            </div>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

Answer 1

This shouldn't be done with Robot class, since it can be solved using Selenium. Don't click the element that opens the upload window and instead use:

If you have an ID to your input better use it with By.id("inputID"), else:

WebElement inputElement = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[type='file']"));
element.sendKeys("/full/path/to/your/file");

And get the path, either with:

String pathToFile = System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/src/resources/your.file; 

To use getResourceAsStream() you can:

try (InputStream in = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream(fileName)) {
    return getStringFromInputStream(in);
} catch (IOException e) {
    // handle
}

private String getStringFromInputStream(InputStream is) {

    BufferedReader br = null;
    StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

    String line;
    try {
        br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));

        while ((line = br.readLine()) != null) {
           sb.append(line);
        }
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } finally {

        if (br != null) {
            try {
                br.close();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    }

    return sb.toString();
}

Answer 2

Common approach to resolve your issue is to use

WebElement file_input = driver.findElement(By.id("category_tile_upload"));
file_input.sendKeys("/path/to/file/to/upload");

What is result of implementing these lines of code?