Adding extension to Selenium2(WebDriver) chrome driver

Question

I\'m using the code below to start chrome using webdriver (selenium 2)

            Map mobileEmulation = new HashMap(         


        

Answer 1

Finally figured it out!

Per the ChromeDriver capabilites page, you need to convert the .crx file into a base-64 encoded string. So the final answer will look something like this:

ArrayList ext = new ArrayList<>();
extensionLocation = extensionDir + sep + extensionName + ".crx";
extension = new File(extensionLocation);
if (extension.exists() && !extension.isDirectory()) {
    ext.add(Data.base64Encoder(extensionLocation));
}
chromeOptions.put("extensions", ext);

Where Data.base64encoder() is my custom method for encoding. There are plenty of examples of how to do that based on the version of Java you're running. Basically send it the location, have it read in the binary, and return a string.