invalid argument: File not found error when trying to upload a file

Question

I have an E2E test to upload a file to the application which works on my local machine but fails to run on Browserstack. But fails with reason :

invalid argument: File not found : /home/travis/build/xx/xx/e2e/src/xx/testfile

Here is the code

let fileToUpload = 'testfile';
let absolutePath = path.resolve(__dirname, fileToUpload);
await browser.setFileDetector(new remote.FileDetector());
let fileElem = $('input[type="file"]');
await fileElem.sendKeys(absolutePath);

I have the files upload in my code base for travis to pick them. Any inputs are appreciated.

Thanks

have you tried giving relative path rather than full? – Yash Jagdale May 22 '19 at 12:20 — Yash Jagdale, May 22 '19 at 12:20

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 22 '19 at 14:24

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Since the file upload is working from your local machine, you can try using the Local File Detector Option.

driver.setFileDetector(new LocalFileDetector());
driver.get("http://www.fileconvoy.com/");
driver.findElement(By.id("upfile_0")).sendKeys("C:\\Users\\hello\\url.txt");
driver.findElement(By.id("readTermsOfUse")).click();
driver.findElement(By.name("form_upload")).submit();

The above code snippet will upload a file located on the local machine. The same details are available here: https://www.browserstack.com/automate/java#enhancements-uploads-downloads

You can port this in the language of your choice.

answered May 22 '19 at 14:24

ANM1996

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Hi , Thanks for your response. But I am already using the remote FileDetector. Your answer and the browserstack post talks about local Filedetector. Is there a difference ? I thought I should be using remote FileDetector to upload files on browserstack and CI. could you please confirm. – asl May 23 '19 at 07:00
Having said that , I tried local File Detector as well. But couldn't get that to work as I get the same `Invalid argument: File not found`error. – asl May 23 '19 at 12:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 19 '21 at 05:44

 ((RemoteWebDriver) driver).setFileDetector(new LocalFileDetector());
 driver.get("https://www.monsterindia.com/seeker/registration");                 

 WebElement browser = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id=\"file-upload\"]"));                  
     //Upload button xpath
                        
   browser.sendKeys("add here upload file path");              
                        
   System.out.println("File upload Successfully");

This will also simple way to upload file. I have worked this code in Chrome browser.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 16 '22 at 21:26

This code worked for me to run the test in BrowserStack. I'm using Java-selenium-Jenkins-BrowserStack

WebElement uploadFile = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@type='file']"));
((RemoteWebElement)uploadFile).setFileDetector(new LocalFileDetector());
        upload_file.sendKeys(System.getProperty("user.dir")+"/src/main/java/resources/common/<Name of your file>.csv");

invalid argument: File not found error when trying to upload a file

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