I'm trying to use NetUtil.asyncCopy to append data from one file to the end of another file from a Firefox extension. I have based this code upon a number of examples at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Code_snippets/File_I_O, particularly the 'Copy a stream to a file' example. Given what it says on that page, my code below:
Creates nsIFile objects for the file to copy from and file to append to and initialises these objects with the correct paths.
Creates an output stream to the output file.
Runs the NetUtil.asyncCopy function to copy between the file (which, I believe, behaves as an nsIInputStream) and the output stream.
I run this code as append_text_from_file("~/CopyFrom.txt", "~/AppendTo.txt");, but nothing gets copied across. The Appending Text and After ostream dumps appear on the console, but not the Done or Error dumps.
Does anyone have any idea what I'm doing wrong here? I'm fairly new to both Firefox extensions and javascript (although I am a fairly experienced programmer) - so I may be doing something really silly. If my entire approach is wrong then please let me know - I would have thought that this approach would allow me to append a file easily, and asynchronously, but it may not be possible for some reason that I don't know about.
function append_text_from_file(from_filename, to_filename) {
var from_file = Components.classes["#mozilla.org/file/local;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
from_file.initWithPath(from_filename);
var to_file = Components.classes["#mozilla.org/file/local;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
to_file.initWithPath(to_filename);
dump("Appending text\n");
var ostream = FileUtils.openFileOutputStream(to_file, FileUtils.MODE_WRONLY | FileUtils.MODE_APPEND)
dump("After ostream\n");
NetUtil.asyncCopy(from_file, ostream, function(aResult) {
dump("Done\n");
if (!Components.isSuccessCode(aResult)) {
// an error occurred!
dump(aResult);
dump("Error!\n")
}
});
}
asyncCopy() requires an input stream not a file.
you can do this:
var fstream = Cc["#mozilla.org/network/file-input-stream;1"].createInstance(Ci.nsIFileInputStream);
fstream.init(from_file, 0x01, 4, null);
NetUtil.asyncCopy(fstream, ostream, function(aResult)....
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I was trying to use the hack described in the link above to insert through code the file I want to upload to an '<input type='file', but I am having trouble to implement it.
I am using the following code as a snippet in Chrome devtools Console Panel:
inp = document.querySelector("input[type=file]");
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The input text that should display only the file name shows the full path, and when I press the button to upload the file it return an error saying that the file was not founded.
I already check the path and it is 100% right. I don't know much about javascript, in fact I am using Selenium to do the rest of the automation, but this particular subject looks like can only be achieved with js.
Could anyone help me? Am I mising something or did I misunderstood the hack solution and what I am trying to do is not possible at all?
I have created a file as part of a script on a network drive and i am trying to make it hidden so that if the script is run again it should be able to see the file and act on the information contained within it but i am having trouble doing this. what i have so far is:
function doesRegisterExist(oFs, Date, newFolder) {
dbEcho("doesRegisterExist() triggered");
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dbEcho(newReg.Attributes)
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Windows Script Host does not actually produce an error here and the script runs throgh to competion. the only guides i have found online i have been attempting to translate from VBscript with limited success.
variables passed to this function are roughly declared as such
var oFs = new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
var Date = "29-12-2017"
var newFolder = "\\\\File-Server\\path\\to\\folder"
I know ActiveX is a dirty word to a lot of people and i should be shot for even thinking about using it but it really is a perfect fit for what i am trying to do.
Please help.
sExpectedRegisterFolder resolves to \\\\File-Server\\path\\to\\folder\\Register which is a folder and not a file.
I get an Error: file not found when I wrap the code into a try/catch block.
I tested the code on a text file as well, and there it works.
So you're either using the wrong method if you want to set the folder to hidden.
Or you forgot to include the path to the text if you want to change a file to hidden.
( Edit: Or if Register is the name of the file, add the filetype .txt ? )
If you change GetFile to GetFolder as described in https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/6tkce7xa(v=vs.84).aspx
the folder will get hidden correctly.
I want to identify few properties during my run and form a json object which I would like to write to a ".json"file and save it on the disk.
var target = UIATarget.localTarget();
var properties = new Object();
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I tried :
// Sample code to see if it is possible to write data
// onto some file from my automation script
function WriteToFile()
{
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AND
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{
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But still unable to read and write data to file from ui automation instruments
Possible Workaround ??
To redirect to the stdout if we can execute a terminal command from my ui automation script. So can we execute a terminal command from the script ?
Haven't Tried :
1. Assuming we can include the library that have those methods and give it a try .
Your assumptions are good, But the XCode UI Automation script is not a full JavaScript.
I don't think you can simply program a normal browser based JavaScript in the XCode UI Automation script.
set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
Is not a JavaScript, it is VBScript which will only work in Microsoft Platforms and testing tools like QTP.
Scripting.FileSystemObject
Is an ActiveX object which only exists in Microsoft Windows
Only few JavaScript functions like basic Math, Array,...etc..Are provided by the Apple JavaScript library, so you are limited to use only the classes provided here https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/DeveloperTools/Reference/UIAutomationRef/
If you want to do more scripting then Try Selenium IOS Driver http://ios-driver.github.io/ios-driver/
Hey so this is something that I was looking into for a project but never fully got around to implementing so this answer will be more of a guide of what to do than step by step copy and paste.
First you're going to need to create a bash script that writes to a file. This can be as simple as
!/bin/bash
echo $1 >> ${filename.json}
Then you call this from inside your Xcode Instruments UIAutomation tool with
var target = UIATarget.localTarget();
var host = target.host();
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Then after your automation ends you can load up the file path on your computer to look at the results.
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I am using XPCOM to read/write file(s) on my hard drive (since Java is no longer supported on FF16,17,18,+ I have to use this). I use it in my FireFox extension(s) (I use iMacros). On this document click I found this example.
var string = '\u5909\u63db\u30c6\u30b9\u30c8';
file.initWithPath('C:\\temp\\temp.txt');
file.create(file.NORMAL_FILE_TYPE, 0666);
var charset = 'EUC-JP';
var fileStream = Components
.classes['#mozilla.org/network/file-output-stream;1']
.createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIFileOutputStream);
fileStream.init(file, 2, 0x200, false);
var converterStream = Components
.classes['#mozilla.org/intl/converter-output-stream;1']
.createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIConverterOutputStream);
converterStream.init(fileStream, charset, string.length,
Components.interfaces.nsIConverterInputStream.DEFAULT_REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER);
converterStream.writeString(string);
converterStream.close();
fileStream.close();
So this code does the following. If file doesn't exist it creates it and saves the data in it. However if file does exists it will return error.
If I comment that part of the code (and file exists) it will just overwrite the old data and put the new.
I need this code to create file, if it exists just move on without an error and save the data in the new line without overwriting.
Like this.
before:
data11, data12, data13
data21, data22, data23
after:
data11, data12, data13
data21, data22, data23
data31, data32, data33
data41, data42, data43
Try passing 18 as the second parameter when you init the output stream (instead of 2).
fileStream.init(file, 18, 0x200, false);
That adds the PR_APPEND flag to the io mode parameter (it's 0x10; the 2 is for PR_WRONLY).
I'm working on a project (BrowserIO - go to browserio dot googlecode dot com if you want to check out the code and work on it. Help welcome!) in which I'm using Firefox's nsIFileInputStream in tandem with nsIConverterInputStream, per their example (https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Code_snippets/File_I%2F%2FO#Simple), but only a portion of the full data is being loaded. The code is:
var file = Components.classes["#mozilla.org/file/local;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
file.initWithPath(path);
var data = "";
var fstream = Components.classes["#mozilla.org/network/file-input-stream;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIFileInputStream);
var cstream = Components.classes["#mozilla.org/intl/converter-input-stream;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIConverterInputStream);
fstream.init(file, -1, 0, 0);
cstream.init(fstream, "UTF-8", 0, 0); // you can use another encoding here if you wish
var str = {};
cstream.readString(-1, str); // read the whole file and put it in str.value
data = str.value;
cstream.close(); // this closes fstream
If you want to see this behavior, checkout the code from the BrowserIO project page, and use Firebug to set a breakpoint at the data = str.value; line in file_io.js. Then select a text file from the list, and click the "Open" button. In Firebug, in the watch panel set a watch for str.value. Look at the file... It should be truncated, unless it's really short.
For reference, the code above is the main body of the openFile() function in trunk/scripts/file_io.js.
Anybody have any clue what's happening with this?
See nsIConverterInputStream; basically, -1 doesn't mean "give me everything" but rather "give me the default amount", which the docs claim is 8192.
More generally, if you want to exhaust the contents of an input stream, you have to loop until it's empty. Nothing in any of the stream contracts guarantees that the amount of data returned by a call is the entirety of the contents of the stream; it could even return less than it has immediately available if it wanted.
I discovered how to do the file read without converting, to avoid issues from not knowing the file encoding type. The answer is to use nsIScriptableInputStream with nsIFileInputStream:
var sstream = Components.classes["#mozilla.org/scriptableinputstream;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIScriptableInputStream);
fstream.init(file, 0x01, 0004, 0);
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