Is this possible to use Windows Desktop testing features to download a file in Katalon?

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Is this possible to use Windows Desktop testing features to download a file in Katalon?

When trying to download a file from the internet, the windows dialog appears. Is this possible to use Windows Desktop testing features to deal with that dialog?

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Hi @gdearest07

Is it a pdf ? You can configure WebDriver’s desired capabilities to allow file download such files

Otherwise, you can try to use Robot’s class:

Currently, Windows desktop tests cannot be run along with Web tests yet. !

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Hi @ThanhTo,

Thank you. Is somebody working on using Windows Desktop testing features along with Web tests yet?

In UFT, it’s possible to handle Windows dialogs while running Web tests. So, when I saw that Windows Desktop testing was available in Katalon, I assumed that it was possible to do the same in Katalon. If you can implement it, that would be a great selling point.

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@ThanhTo, yes, this would be useful in a few scenarios where deliverables include features involving the browser app (not the web page running inside it) and other Windows resources.

Please make this a feature request!

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@ThanhTo, is this a correct link? I cannot see anything about using Robot’s class there.

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@gdearest07

Sorry my bad, here’s the link:

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As requested, I have opened a feature request. We will consider it for future releases, and will let you guys know when there’s more information.

Thank you for you report !

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@gdearest07 from groovy, you can call OS commands, execute scripts and so on, using the .execute() method.
some examples here: https://coderwall.com/p/nswp1q/calling-other-processes-from-groovy

combine this with curl, or wget for windows, or a powershell script and you are set, no more pop-ups, see:

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Thank you @anon46315158. It’s definitely an interesting solution and I’ll look into it. Not sure though, it can be used in my current case, cause I’m downloading pdf files that are generated dynamically.

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so you can combine them. grab the pdf link via the webtesting approach, and call the script to download them. easy peasy.

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@gdearest07 My two cents … We have two more workaround for this scenario.

  1. Using AutoIT tool.
  2. Using Winium - Within Web test, you can handle windows dialog
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@anon46315158, there is no pdf link as such (i.e. there is nothing like https://pdfurl/pdfname.pdf) after the pdf file has been generated:

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Thank you, @discover.selenium, for your two cents. I’ll look into these solutions as well. As for as I remember, after recording Windows dialogs with AutoIT, some kind of executable is produced, which can be not easy to use unless you are running your tests locally.

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Hi @gdearest07,

Yes, AutoIT creates .exe, which has to be called in your script. I use the SPY feature to identify the windows element.I don’t rely on record feature.

I haven’t tried the above one. Please give it a shot.

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Steps :

Download and extract Winium.Desktop.Driver.zip from https://github.com/2gis/Winium.Desktop/releases
Run Winium.Desktop.Driver.exe
Download the jar package.
From Katalon studio --> Project settings --> External libraries, add two jars winium-elements-desktop-0.2.0-1.jar and winium-webdriver-0.1.0-1.jar (Refer : https://i.imgur.com/haDI84P.png)
Use the example below to import the Winium driver and use script into Katalon Studio.