How can I inject an XML file using Selenium?

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I have the path to my XML file on my computer, but how can I use selenium (web automation tool) to inject the XML file ?

Usually how it is done (manually) is navigate to the URL and COPY AND PASTE the entire XML text into the provided text box..

Any ideas how to inject the file using automation ? There is no way to "drag" the XML file to the text box and I believe the way I'm thinking that it will work is very complicated.

What's it being used for? I highly doubt that physically injecting it into the page is the way to go. — Arran
– Arran, Commented Dec 18, 2012 at 19:14

ddavison · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-18 14:48:14Z

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I think this is actually what you want -

File xml = new File("xmlpath");

String url = xml.getAbsolutePath();
url = url.replace('\\', '/');
url = url.replace(" ", "%20");

String actual = "file:/" + url;

selenium.open(actual);

Then you should be able to get the xml using String theXML = selenium.getText("//rootxmlnode"); Then do what you will with it.

answered Dec 18, 2012 at 14:48

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Andremoniy Over a year ago

Author of question asked, how he could inject XML file, not evaluate it.

Andremoniy Over a year ago

Strange and complicated method. Your first variant of answer was closer to the idea.

user854577 · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-18 15:51:31Z

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Check out the topic of Data Driven Testing to get you started. Something like this should get you going.

answered Dec 18, 2012 at 15:51

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Andremoniy · Accepted Answer · 2019-08-28 05:31:42Z

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Selenium tool allows you to create an automatically generated code in Java. So, you need to place any text in the provided text box and generate this Java-test code. Next step is modifying of the generated test. You have to manually write a simplest code, which will read your XML file, get it contents and paste into the text box. The last thing is replacement (in the generated Java code of test!) of the mentioned above text-block to the contents of read XML.

A simplest way for reading file into a string is using Apache commons-io library. For example: FileUtils.readFileToString(File file, String encoding) gives you a string object with contents of the file.

edited Aug 28, 2019 at 5:31

answered Dec 18, 2012 at 14:45

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