Can't test blank/empty file upload scenarios about chromedriver HOT 17 CLOSED

can u please give an update on this..

Thanks for the report. However, I was unable to reproduce this bug on Chrome 18 
with ChromeDriver 1068 for your sample html.

Are you using the remote webdriver server, or are you just instantiating 
ChromeDriver directly? Either way works for me. Are you using the Java 
WebDriver client? Can you post a full sample code, along with your 
chromedriver.log file?

org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: 'file:/C:/Usersdata/2012.zip' does not 
exist on the file system (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace 
information)
Command duration or timeout: 78 milliseconds
Build info: version: '2.21.0', revision: '16552', time: '2012-04-11 19:09:00'
System info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'x86', os.version: '6.1', 
java.version: '1.6.0_29'
Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver



This the exception i was getting.
The file is present in the specified location.

Can u just provide an example about the file upload.. This would be really 
helpful.

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\temp\\chromedriver.exe");
ChromeDriver d = new ChromeDriver();
d.executeScript("document.body.innerHTML='<input type=file></input>'");
d.setFileDetector(new LocalFileDetector());
d.findElement(By.id("chooseLocalFile")).sendKeys("C:\\temp\\chromedriver.log");
//Manually verify that the file has been uploaded.
Thread.sleep(6000);

Although actually you don't need to call setFileDetector.

How is this low priority? The 'Choose File' button DOES NOT WORK; that's a 
serious concern.

I'm using the latest version of Chrome: 18.0.1025.168

This is only low priority because I haven't been able to confirm the bug yet.

Please try my sample test or provide a simple reproducible test case that 
causes the problem to occur. Also please attach your chromedriver.log.

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i am observing the same error message in Chrome.Observing the following 
statement.
driver.findElement(By.id("TabID")).sendKeys(""); ---- this is working fine in 
firefox by sending a NULL path.

'' does not exist on the file system (WARNING: The server did not provide any 
stacktrace information) Command duration or timeout: 43 milliseconds Build 
info: version: '2.21.0', revision: '16552', time: '2012-04-11 19:09:00' System 
info: os.name: 'Windows 7', os.arch: 'amd64', os.version: '6.1', java.version: 
'1.6.0_31' Driver info: driver.version: RemoteWebDriver
 sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) 
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) 
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) 
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) 
at 
org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:175)
 at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:128)
 at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:459)
 at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.execute(RemoteWebElement.java:245)
 at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.sendKeys(RemoteWebElement.java:88)

what do you expect to happen when you pass an empty string?

I am expecting this should not select any image. I am verifying an error 
message "you should select an image to continue....." - when an image is not 
selected, while saving the changes.

Getting the above message properly in firefox, but not in Chrome.

Can you send keys for a real file that is not an image? Will that work for your 
case?

Yes. It is working fine both in Firefox and Chrome when i am using a real file 
(not an image). But, in this case i am getting different message:
"Your image must be one of the following formats. .jpg, .jpeg, .gif"

How can i verify the other case, when i am not passing any file location, just 
a blank??

I see. I do not see us supporting your use case anytime in the near future. 
That said, it should be possible to emulate such behavior by using javascript 
and webdriver's execute script method.