Selenium RC > how to upload file using attachFile()

Question

I am using Selenium RC with Junit framework. I am trying to upload a file using attachFile() method.

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Answer 1

This is an old question but I recently solved the problem doing this

    //Start an auto it script that selects the file manually
    if(browser.contains("iexplore")){
        Runtime r= Runtime.getRuntime();
        Process p = null;
        try {
            p = r.exec("C:\\uploadFile.exe  \"Files\" \"ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$FilesView$ctl02$NewFile\" \"C:\\GhostTagBug2.ttx\"");

        }catch(Exception e){}
        p.waitFor();
    } else {
        //Tested on firefox
        //Get focus and type the path manually
        selenium.focus("xpath=//input[contains(@id,\"_NewFile\")]");
        selenium.type("xpath=//input[contains(@id,\"_NewFile\")]", "C:\\GhostTagBug2.ttx");
    }

browser is just a variable containing what browser the Selenium script is running and the code is obviously in java.

For IE, uploadFile.exe is an auto it script that looks like this.

#include IE.au3
AutoItSetOption("WinTitleMatchMode","2") ; set the select mode to select using substring

;Normally run from command line
if($cmdLine[0] > 2) then 
    $titlex = $cmdLine[1] ;Title of the window
    $form = $cmdLine[2] ;Name of the file upload/save form object
    $file = $cmdLine[3] ;Path of the file to upload
Else
    ;Testing fields
    $titlex = "Files"
    $form = "ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$FilesView$ctl02$NewFile"
    $file = "C:\\GhostTagBug2.ttx"
EndIf

WinWait($titlex) ; match the window with substring
$title = WinGetTitle($titlex) ; retrives whole window title
WinSetState($title, "", @SW_MAXIMIZE) ;Maximize the window incase button is hidden
WinActivate($title)
WinWaitActive($title)

$oIE = _IEAttach ("Files")
$oT = _IEGetObjByName ($oIE, $form)
;Move the mouse to the button on the form and click it
MouseMove (_IEPropertyGet ($oT, "screenx") + _IEPropertyGet ($oT, "width") - 10, _IEPropertyGet ($oT, "screeny") + _IEPropertyGet ($oT, "height") / 2)
MouseClick ("left")

;Wait for upload screen then input the file and close it
WinWait ("Choose File to Upload")
$hChoose = WinGetHandle ("Choose File to Upload")
ControlSetText ($hChoose, "", "Edit1", $file)
ControlClick ($hChoose, "", "Button2")

;Restore window state
WinSetState($title, "", @SW_RESTORE)

It essentially grabs the title of the window, maximizes it, inputs the file to be uploaded, clicks the select button and goes back to Selenium, I've tested it in IE 8 fine, but I don't see why any IE that is supported by auto it's _IE library wouldn't be able to handle this.

I've seen a lot of robot scripts and firefox hacks where you enable javascript to do extra things. Both of these require no modification of the browser.

I apologize for lack of comments, this code is still in progress.