How To Upload Files Using AutoIT in Selenium

Selenium can not handle file downloading because browsers use native dialogs for downloading files. Sometime we need to download file from AUT(Application Under Test). There are several ways to automate download file in Selenium but here we see download file using AutoIT in Selenium WebDriver.

AutoIt Introduction:

AutoIt Tool is an open source tool. It is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g. VBScript and SendKeys). AutoIt is also very small, self-contained and will run on all versions of Windows out-of-the-box with no annoying “runtimes” required!

Now the question is how we do download file using AutoIT Tool in Selenium WebDriver.

Steps to integrate autoit with selenium webdriver

1) Write AutoIT script for file uploading( AutoIT Editor)

ControlFocus() --> focus on the text box
ControlSetText() --> providing path of a file
ControlClick() --> clicking on open button

2) Compile AutoIT script and generate .exe file

Tools-->Compile-->Select x64--> Compile --> generated .exe file

3) use and integrate .exe file in selenium webdriver script

Ex: 

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C://autoitfiles/fileupload.exe"+" "+"C:\\SeleniumPractice\\Fruites\\apple.jpg");

Uploading Single File

AutoIT script

ControlFocus("File Upload","","Edit1")
Sleep(3000)
ControlSetText("File Upload","","Edit1","C:\SeleniumPractice\Fruites\apple.jpg")
Sleep(3000)
ControlClick("File Upload","","Button1")
Sleep(3000)

Note: We need to compile AutoIT script and generate .exe file (SingleFileUpload.exe)

Selenium Test case

import java.io.IOException;
import org.openqa.selenium.By;
import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class UploadSingleFile {

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException {

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C://Drivers/geckodriver-v0.19.1-win64/geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

driver.get("http://demo.automationtesting.in/Register.html");

WebElement button=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='imagesrc']"));

JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;
executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", button);

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C://SeleniumPractice/SingleFileUpload.exe"); // execute .exe file

//driver.quit();
}

}

Uploading Multiple Files

AutoIT script

Sleep(500)

ControlFocus("File Upload","","Edit1")

Sleep(500)

ControlSetText("File Upload","","Edit1",$CmdLine[1])

Sleep(500)

ControlClick("File Upload","","Button1")

Sleep(500)

Selenium Test case

import java.io.IOException;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.JavascriptExecutor;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver;

public class UploadMultipleFiles {

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException {

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver","C://Drivers/geckodriver-v0.19.1-win64/geckodriver.exe");

WebDriver driver=new FirefoxDriver();

driver.get("http://demo.automationtesting.in/Register.html");

WebElement button=driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='imagesrc']"));

JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor)driver;

Thread.sleep(3000);

//round1- first file

executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", button);

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C://SeleniumPractice/MultipleFilesUpload.exe"+" "+ "C:\\SeleniumPractice\\Fruites\\apple.jpg");

Thread.sleep(5000);

//round2-  second file

executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", button);

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C://SeleniumPractice/MultipleFilesUpload.exe"+" "+ "C:\\SeleniumPractice\\Fruites\\Mangoes.jpg");

Thread.sleep(5000);

//round3-  third file file

executor.executeScript("arguments[0].click();", button);

Runtime.getRuntime().exec("C://SeleniumPractice/MultipleFilesUpload.exe"+" "+ "C:\\SeleniumPractice\\Fruites\\PineApple.jpg");

Thread.sleep(5000);

driver.quit();

}

}