Selenium RemoteWebDriver FileDetector Java

Question

I have a problems with the file upload through Selenium RemoteWebDriver (chrome driver, up using selenium grid).

Similar to this thread: Sending Keys to Input WebElement fails as it is not an absolute path

Done some research and seems like that solution works. However, i'm getting this error: Cannot resolve method 'setFileDetector(org.openqa.selenium.remote.LocalFileDetector)'

I did have a required imports. Here is my remote webdriver setup method:

public WebDriver SetupRemoteChromeDriver(){

Integer pageTimeout = 50;


final DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();

capabilities.setJavascriptEnabled(true);
capabilities.setCapability("acceptSslCerts",true);
capabilities.setCapability("cssSelectorsEnabled", false);
capabilities.setCapability("applicationCacheEnabled", true);
capabilities.setCapability("handlesAlerts", true); //this is new to try
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "chrome");

WebDriver browser = null;
try {
    browser = new RemoteWebDriver(
            new URL("http://*ip*:4444/wd/hub"),
            capabilities
    );

    //File upload issue specific to chromedriver
    browser.setFileDetector(new LocalFileDetector());
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
    e.printStackTrace();
}


browser.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(pageTimeout, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
browser.manage().timeouts().setScriptTimeout(pageTimeout, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
browser.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(20, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

return browser;
}

imports to that class:

import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.BrowserVersion;
import org.apache.commons.io.FileUtils;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.SystemUtils;
import org.apache.log4j.LogManager;
import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.openqa.selenium.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.*;
import org.openqa.selenium.phantomjs.PhantomJSDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.phantomjs.PhantomJSDriverService;


import java.io.File;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

selenium version: 2.53.1 According to the docs https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/java/ RemoteWebDriver class must have that method. Any idea why it's not imported?

Answer 1

I think you need to change line WebDriver browser = null; to RemoteWebDriver browser = null; . The variable browser is defined with type WebDriver which does not have the specified method.