Uploading a file using Angular js - protractor e2e testing

Question

i want to upload a file as an automated test, with the following code, it correctly selects the file & clicks the upload button, however nothing happens after the upload button is clicked, I believe its not triggering the javascript on the page:

var fileUpload = './testFile.txt',
absolutePath = path.resolve('./testFile.txt', fileUpload);
$('input[type="file"]').sendKeys(absolutePath);

element(by.model('documentFile'));

element(by.css('button[ng-click="uploadSelectedFiles()"]')).click();

Is there another method for this?

EDIT: I have managed to do this, thank you to who helped me, here is my code:

var fileUpload = './testFile.jpg',
            absolutePath = path.resolve('/home/xxx/workspace/xxx/xxx/xxx/xxxxx/test/x/x/x/x/filesToUpload', fileUpload);

        var uploadInput = $('input[type="file"]');
        uploadInput.sendKeys(absolutePath);
        uploadInput.submit();
        element(by.css('button[ng-click="uploadSelectedFiles()"]')).click();

HTML for chooseFile: <input ng-file-select="selectFiles($files)" class="peg-e2e-batch- upload ng-pristine ng-untouched ng-invalid ng-invalid-required" ng-model="documentFile" name="file" ng-accept="'.jpg, .pdf'" ng-model-rejected="rejFiles" required="" type="file"> html for uploadButton: <button class="btn btn-private-primary pull-left" ng- click="uploadSelectedFiles()">Submit</button> — Jordan .Muscat
– Jordan .Muscat, Commented Apr 8, 2015 at 11:30

alecxe · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-09 11:41:26Z

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Instead of clicking "upload" button, send keys to the input to set the path and submit the form by clicking Submit button:

var uploadInput = $('input[type="file"]');

uploadInput.sendKeys(absolutePath);

var submitButton = element(by.xpath("//input[.='Submit']"));
submitButton.click();

edited Apr 9, 2015 at 11:41

answered Apr 7, 2015 at 14:31

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Jordan .Muscat Over a year ago

it is still not uploading the file, selecting it correctly but not submitting form, i even tried putting in a browser.pause(); & submitting the file manually, still nothing happens.

Sergey Teplyakov Over a year ago

so you are not able to perform such kind of action manually also? in this case it is problem in application itself

alecxe Over a year ago

@Jordan.Muscat can you also edit the question and include the complete HTML code for the form and uploadSelectedFiles() function implementation.

meze Over a year ago

How is that a correct answer? ng-click on the button won't be triggered if you just submit the form.

alecxe Over a year ago

@meze question is, do u need to click the upload button to get stuck with the choose file dialog that u cannot control with selenium? The idea here is to set the path to the file via sendKeys and submit the form.

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Kieran Ryan · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-11 05:43:22Z

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Appears to be a space between "ng-" and "click".

answered May 11, 2015 at 5:43

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