I have scripts recorded through IDE and added while loop. It is working fine with IDE. When I try to run through Selenium RC, the browser opens and nothing happen. I have downloaded user-extensions.js from net and kept where the RC jar is.
Command to run: java -jar selenium-server.jar -userExtensions user-extensions.js -htmlSuite "*firefox" "https://dev.go.aboutone.com/" "C:\Scripts\test_suite.html" "C:\Scripts\results.html"
I have an answer. It is probably not the official, recommended method ... however, I could never get the recommended method to work and am not a developer. Instead, of course, I hacked it ... and its been working ever since and is easy enough to redo in the event you update your jar file.
I copied an article I found on the internet (cant remember where now) to my own documents, and modified the instructions some. Here is what you can do (not what you should do):
I had trouble using the -userExtensions parameter in my RC batch file for including user-extensions. I also had trouble processing the instructions in the selenium documentation (found here: http://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/08_user_extensions.jsp#using-user-extensions-with-selenium-rc).
Instead of all the developer jargon, I simply cracked open the selenium-server-standalone-2.25.0.jar file using WinZip, and followed these instructions-
1. Open the selenium-server-standalone-2.25.0.jar file using winzip an extracted the “user-extensions” file only to your C drive. So now you have the user-extansions.js in your C:\core\scripts folder.
2. Edit the user-extensions.js by adding your extensions, just like you do with the IDE.
3. Using Winzip again, add the modified user-extensions.js to the selenium-server.jar. For this:
a. Open selenium-server.jar using Winzip.
b. Use the “Add” button on the top bar of Winzip
c. In the “Add” window, browse to C:\core\scripts\user-extensions.js file Make sure that the “Actions” choosen is “Add (and replace) Files” and “Save full path info” is checked in the “Folders” option. This will replace the user-extensions.js in the selenium-server.jar with our modified user-extensions.js with same path information.
4. Close Winzip
Now the new selenium-server.jar is ready with your own user-extensions. No custom processor calls or instantiation needed.
Note, that some IDE user extensions do not work, without modification, with RC. In many cases, the developer usually provided a version for the IDE and a version for RC. If that is the case for the extension you are adding, make sure to copy in the right extension from the correct source.
Hope this helps.
It is working for me, if I use the full path to the user-extensions.js file:
java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.53.1.jar -userExtensions "C:\selenium\cardTests\flowControlIDEExtension\user-extensions.js" -htmlSuite "*googlechrome" "http://localhost:12345" "c:\selenium\cardTests\klondikeTestSuite.html" "c:\selenium\cardTests\klondikeTestSuiteChromeOutput.html"
