Local Chrome extension to set file of input type=“file”

Question

I\'am developing an Extension for Chrome browser. I wan\'t to choose a file from a input type=\"file\" html element using the extension. But I know this is not

Answer 1

Ok i'm going to answer my own question.

First of all thank Michael Dibbets and wtjones for your answers. --disable-web-security and --allow-file-access-from-files did not work. I did not go for native plugins and for extending chrome from its source as it seems to take time.

The solution:

I used chromedriver with selenium java to automate chrome.

and with the help of Slanec's Answer to this question i was able select the file pragmatically.

Here's the java code:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:/.../chromedriver.exe");

WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("URL_OF_THE_PAGE");
WebElement link = driver.findElement(By.linkText("TEXT_IN_THE_LINK"));
link.click();
WebElement choose_file_input = driver.findElement(By.className("CLASS_OF_THE_INPUT"));
choose_file_input.sendKeys("PATH_TO_FILE");

Thanks!