Hi!
I am trying to create a very simple Katalon test case that opens Firefox, goes to given URL and clicks a button to download a file. I have set up Desired Capabilities according to the Katalon documentation (https://github.com/katalon-studio/docs/blob/master/pages/katalon-studio/docs/introduction-to-desired-capabilities.md) but with no luck. When I try to download a file prompt shows up and file is not downloaded. How can I disable the prompt and download the file immediately instead?
Software versions, source code and screenshots below.
Windows 10, Katalon Studio 7.2.1, Mozilla Firefox 72.0.2, Selenium 3.141.59
import static com.kms.katalon.core.checkpoint.CheckpointFactory.findCheckpoint
import static com.kms.katalon.core.testcase.TestCaseFactory.findTestCase
import static com.kms.katalon.core.testdata.TestDataFactory.findTestData
import static com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.ObjectRepository.findTestObject
import static com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.ObjectRepository.findWindowsObject
import com.kms.katalon.core.checkpoint.Checkpoint as Checkpoint
import com.kms.katalon.core.cucumber.keyword.CucumberBuiltinKeywords as CucumberKW
import com.kms.katalon.core.mobile.keyword.MobileBuiltInKeywords as Mobile
import com.kms.katalon.core.model.FailureHandling as FailureHandling
import com.kms.katalon.core.testcase.TestCase as TestCase
import com.kms.katalon.core.testdata.TestData as TestData
import com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.TestObject as TestObject
import com.kms.katalon.core.webservice.keyword.WSBuiltInKeywords as WS
import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords as WebUI
import com.kms.katalon.core.windows.keyword.WindowsBuiltinKeywords as Windows
import internal.GlobalVariable as GlobalVariable
import org.openqa.selenium.Keys as Keys
WebUI.openBrowser('https://file-examples.com/index.php/text-files-and-archives-download/')
WebUI.click(findTestObject('downloadCsvFileButton'))
hello,
do it using Selenium Webdriver class
//parameter File where your downloadpath is and return Webdriver object
public WebDriver setChromeOptions(File folder){
ChromeOptions options = new ChromeOptions();
String downloadPath = folder.getAbsolutePath()
//String downloadsPath = System.getProperty("user.home") + "/Downloads";
println ("downloadpath "+downloadPath)
Map<String, Object> chromePrefs = new HashMap<String, Object>()
chromePrefs.put("profile.default_content_settings.popups", 0);
chromePrefs.put("download.default_directory", downloadPath)
chromePrefs.put("download.prompt_for_download", false)
chromePrefs.put("plugins.plugins_disabled", "Chrome PDF Viewer");
options.addArguments("--window-size=1920,1080")
options.addArguments("--test-type")
options.addArguments("--disable-gpu")
options.addArguments("--no-sandbox")
options.addArguments("--disable-dev-shm-usage")
options.addArguments("--disable-software-rasterizer")
options.addArguments("--disable-popup-blocking")
options.addArguments("--disable-extensions")
options.setExperimentalOption("prefs", chromePrefs)
DesiredCapabilities cap = DesiredCapabilities.chrome()
cap.setCapability(ChromeOptions.CAPABILITY, options)
cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.ACCEPT_SSL_CERTS, true);
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", DriverFactory.getChromeDriverPath())
WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(cap);
return driver
}
Hi @Timo_Kuisma1,
For Chrome I can setup Desired Capabilities in Project Settings and it works fine, what I was struggling with was Firefox.
Anyway, I found this topic Opening Firefox with a Specific, non anonymous profile and @kazurayam’s reply helped me to create a script that initializes webdriver and I call it before each TestCase:
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxOptions
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.ProfilesIni
import static com.kms.katalon.core.testobject.ObjectRepository.findTestObject
import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.DriverFactory
import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.driver.WebUIDriverType
import com.kms.katalon.core.webui.keyword.WebUiBuiltInKeywords as WebUI
import internal.GlobalVariable as GlobalVariable
WebUIDriverType executedBrowser = DriverFactory.getExecutedBrowser()
switch(executedBrowser) {
case WebUIDriverType.FIREFOX_DRIVER: // "Firefox"
System.setProperty('webdriver.gecko.driver', DriverFactory.getGeckoDriverPath())
FirefoxOptions options = new FirefoxOptions()
options.addPreference('marionette', true)
options.addPreference('browser.download.folderList', 2)
options.addPreference('browser.helperApps.alwaysAsk.force', false)
options.addPreference('browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting', false)
options.addPreference('browser.download.dir', GlobalVariable.downloadPath)
options.addPreference('browser.download.downloadDir', GlobalVariable.downloadPath)
options.addPreference('browser.download.defaultFolder', GlobalVariable.downloadPath)
options.addPreference('browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk', 'application/download, application/octet-stream, text/csv')
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(options);
// let Katalon Studio to use the WebDriver created here
DriverFactory.changeWebDriver(driver)
break
default:
WebUI.openBrowser('')
}
If someone wants to download different file types they have to specify the MIME types in ‘browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk’ preference:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Basics_of_HTTP/MIME_types/Complete_list_of_MIME_types
Additionally, if the file is PDF you have to add one more preference:
options.addPreference('pdfjs.disabled', true)
Could I see the Desired Capabilities you set in Project Settings for Chrome? I was having issues with a download prompt appearing on PDF and Excel files.
Sure, I will post my configuration tomorrow morning (I am in CET time zone).
I have checked my settings for Chrome. It is nothing fancy, but it works for me with PDFs. The page I am testing has a valid SSL certificate and I am downloading PDF which is generated dynamically, I have checked the MIME type of the file and it appears as ‘application/octet-stream’.
So, I have defined a Desired Capability:
- name: prefs; type: Dictionary;
And in dictionary value I have a property:
- name: download.default_directory; type: String; value: C:\Downloads
That is all.
Why did you find this solution to work as opposed to using Project Settings / Desired Capabilities for Firefox? (referring to the script)
I had similar settings for Firefox in Katalon but it just doesn’t want to work, and it’s incredibly frustrating.
Same here. Extremely frustrating that the same settings do not work in project settings for firefox. Got to love ‘codeless’ tools, right? 
@jpotrawski Did you ever get this working through project settings?