How to use FileHandler Class in Selenium for Screenshot

If you have upgraded to new version of Selenium 3.6.0 or newer version then you will not get new FileUtils class which we used to get in older versions of Selenium. FileHandler Class in Selenium for Screenshot and help us to copy screenshot from source to destination.

FileHandler is new Class in Selenium which help us the to store screenshots, create directory and so on. You can get full documentation of FileHandler using this link. 

Note- ChromeOption and FirefoxOption etc classes are added in new release of Selenium added few more features which you can try in your framework.

Previously we have already seen how to capture screenshot in Selenium and How to capture screenshot only for failed test cases.

Steps to use FileHandler Class in Selenium for Screenshot

Step 1- Import the new package which is

import org.openqa.selenium.io.FileHandler;

Step 2- Call copy method of FileHandler Class which is static method and will ask two argument First is src and another is destination

Code will look like 

FileHandler.copy(ts.getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE), new File(“C\\Selenium\\Screenshot.png”));

Copy method will throw checked exception which you can handle either throws or try catch block of Java.

Final code will look like.

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import org.openqa.selenium.OutputType;
import org.openqa.selenium.TakesScreenshot;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeOptions;
import org.openqa.selenium.io.FileHandler;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class ChromeHeadlessBrowser {

@Test
public void myfirst()
{
    // Set the chrome driver
    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver","./chromedriver.exe");

    // pass the option object in ChromeDriver constructor
    WebDriver driver=new ChromeDriver();

    // Provide any url
    driver.get("https://learn-automation.com/");

    System.out.println("Title is "+driver.getTitle());

    TakesScreenshot ts=(TakesScreenshot)driver;

    try {
        FileHandler.copy(ts.getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE), new File("C\\Selenium\\Screenshot.png"));
    } catch (WebDriverException e) {

    } catch (IOException e) {

    }

    // Close the instance
    driver.quit();

}

}

Another way to use old way

In older version of Selenium we used Apache Commons library which used to come along with Selenium but in new version of Selenium (3.6.0 or newer) we have to download it separately and then we can use the old Classes and methods. 

Library name is – Apache Commons Library 

Solution 1- if you are using Normal Java Project then go to below URL, download this library and then add into current project https://commons.apache.org/ 

Solution 2- If you are using Maven project which I always recommend then add below dependency which will add Apache commons library which you can use in your project.

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