Remote File Upload Protractor test

Question

I am writing tests in protractor which a JS based framework and selenium test stack for running tests. I am facing an issue where I have to test file upload.

Problem

Answer 1

Thanks to @alecxe for his answer!

I just had this situation, trying to upload some files to BrowserStack. In my case I'm using Cucumber - Protractor - NodeJs - BrowserStack. This code is already tested, working in local env and BorwserStack.

let path = require('path');
let remote = require('selenium-webdriver/remote');

this.When(/^I upload a file$/, () => {
    browser.setFileDetector(new remote.FileDetector());

    var fileToUpload = '../image_with_title.jpg';
    var absolutePath = path.join(__dirname, fileToUpload);

    page.fileupload.sendKeys(absolutePath);
});

The magic line is:

let remote = require('selenium-webdriver/remote');