Opening a file with protractor

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asked Jul 27, 2019 in DevOps and Agile by Han Zhyang (19.7k points)

Every protractor example I can find on the internet seems to use the browser.get with a web URI.

browser.get('http://localhost:8000');

I'd like to use Selenium to simply navigate to a file:// path so that I don't need a local webserver running in order to perform tests. All I need is a simple HTML page and some assets.

That doesn't seem to work though.

browser.get('file:///Users/myusername/dev/mpproject/spec/support/index.html');

When I paste that URI into my browser window I get an HTML page. When I try to open it with protractor I get a timeout. How can I run tests on this page with a protractor? The ideal answer will work with a relative file path from the myproject root.

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Prabhpreet Kaur · Answer 1 · 2019-07-27T12:22:33+0000

I have had the same error, it got resolved by removing the baseUrl. Here is my setup:

protractor.config.js:

exports.config = {

  capabilities: {
    browserName: 'chrome'
  },

  specs: [
    '*.js'
  ],

  onPrepare: function() {
    // By default, Protractor use data:text/html,<html></html> as resetUrl, but
    // location.replace from the data: to the file: protocol is not allowed
    // (we'll get ‘not allowed local resource’ error), so we replace resetUrl with the one
    // with the file: protocol (this will open root folder of the system)
    browser.ignoreSynchronization = true;
    browser.waitForAngular();
    browser.sleep(500);
    browser.resetUrl = 'file:///';
  }

};
e2etest.js:

'use strict';

describe("Buttons' tests are being started", function() {

    it('Must return 20 records into table', function() {

        browser.get('file:///C:/Users/path_to_file/index.html');

        /* Test codes here */

    });

});

Opening a file with protractor

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