File upload in Microsoft Edge browser

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Permalink Reply by Dmitri T on August 16, 2019 at 5:44pm

You should not be using Robot when it comes to browser automation at all because when it comes to parallel test execution your keyboard-based input will require browser being in focus otherwise the input will go to another (wrong) window. 

Instead of using Robot you should rather locate the relevant input type=file using suitable locator strategy and then provide full path to the file you want to upload via WebElement.sendKeys() function 

WebElement fileUpload = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@type='file']"));
fileUpload.sendKeys("c:/somefolder/somefile.png");

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Permalink Reply by Quality Testing on August 16, 2019 at 6:43pm

Tried with above code, but it is throwing error:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot find elements when the XPath is null.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Cannot find elements when the XPath is null.

at org.openqa.selenium.By$ByXPath.<init>(By.java:339) at org.openqa.selenium.By.xpath(By.java:92)

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