Question:

I made a Selenium script to download an Excel sheet, open, edit and upload it back. I use AutoIt for the file upload.

I have different files to upload for each run, so I can't hard code the file path, hence I want to pass it (to the AutoIt script) as an argument. The AutoIt script:

ControlFocus("File Upload", "", "Edit1") Sleep(1000) ControlSetText("File Upload", "", "Edit1", "C:\Users\nilasing\Downloads\somefilename") Sleep(1000) ControlClick("File Upload", "", "Button1")

"C:\Users\nilasing\Downloads\somefilename" is the hard coded path.

You can pass in command line parameters to the script, then read them using the $CmdLine array.

ControlFocus("File Upload", "", "Edit1") Sleep(1000) ControlSetText("File Upload", "", "Edit1", $CmdLine[1]) Sleep(1000) ControlClick("File Upload", "" , "Button1")

See <a href="https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/intro/running.htm#CommandLine" rel="nofollow">https://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/docs/intro/running.htm#CommandLine</a> for more information.

I've used the same method: In my AutoIT au3 file -

ControlFocus("File Upload","","Edit1") ControlSetText("File Upload","","Edit1",$CmdLine[1]) ControlClick("File Upload","","Button1")

Then call the AutoIT executable from Selenium WebDriver with -

String fileName = "C:\\Calendar.xls"; // passed as a command line parameter to AutoIT executable below String autoITExecutable = ".\\AutoITFileUploadWithParam.exe " + fileName; ....... try { Runtime.getRuntime().exec(autoITExecutable); Thread.sleep(5000); test.log(LogStatus.INFO, "Ran AutoIT script to upload : " + fileName); } catch (Exception e) { test.log(LogStatus.ERROR, "Failed to run AutoIT script : " + e.getMessage()); } driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[text()='Send']")).click(); test.log(LogStatus.INFO, "Email sent");

Note the space between the AutoIT executable and the parameter in String autoITExecutable