Opening a file with protractor

Question

Every protractor example I can find on the internet seems to use browser.get with a web URI.

browser.get(\'http://localhost:8000\');
         


        

Answer 1

I had the same error and fixed by applying Michael Radionov's fix but removing the baseUrl. Here is my setup:

protractor.config.js:

exports.config = {

  capabilities: {
    browserName: 'chrome'
  },

  specs: [
    '*.js'
  ],

  onPrepare: function() {
    // By default, Protractor use data:text/html, as resetUrl, but 
    // location.replace from the data: to the file: protocol is not allowed
    // (we'll get ‘not allowed local resource’ error), so we replace resetUrl with one
    // with the file: protocol (this particular one will open system's root folder)
    browser.ignoreSynchronization = true;
    browser.waitForAngular();
    browser.sleep(500); 
    browser.resetUrl = 'file:///';
  }

};

e2etest.js:

'use strict';

describe("Buttons' tests are started", function() {

    it('Should retrieve 20 records into table', function() {

        browser.get('file:///C:/Users/path_to_file/index.html');

        /* Test codes here */

    });

});