uploadRobotFile returns Action Error : java.lang.NullPointerException

[j0hnsa]

Hello, while trying to use the uploadRobotFile action a java.lang.NullPointerException occurs.

the action is configured like this:

Can you please advise?

[vertigo17]

Can you confirm that the robot extention runs on a windows system ?
You configured a Windows path and logs looks like docker based so I guess running under Linux.
If using a standard docker image path should be more like /home/seluser/Downloads/test.json
That way the file will be created on the robot side directly inside Download folder. Ready to be uploaded from the browser to your application.

[j0hnsa]

It does run on windows system, is this action limited to linux hosts?

[vertigo17]

There are no reason that this shouls not work on windows.
I will have a look why npe was raized

[j0hnsa]

I've tested with linux and the error seems to be present too, maybe I'm missing something

[vertigo17]

Thanks for the log. I will try to reproduce that.

[vertigo17]

A couple of question that may help to identify the issue:
Did you secure that folder C:\CerberusData\ or whatever folder you specified on your test under a linux docker image existed ?
Can you test putting /home/seluser./downloads/test.json after making sure that folder /home/seluser/Downloads/ exist ?
Also secure that parameter -a (--authorisedFolderScope) has been feed with /home/seluser/Downloads/ or docker compose include it this way:

  selenium-node-chrome:
    image: cerberus-node-chrome
    environment:
      HUB_HOST: selenium-hub
      SE_OPTS: -servlets org.cerberus.robot.extension.sikuli.ExecuteSikuliAction -servlets org.cerberus.robot.extension.filemanagement.ExecuteFilemanagementAction -servlets org.cerberus.robot.extension.management.ExecuteManagementAction
      JAVA_OPTS: -DauthorisedFolderScope=/home/seluser/Downloads
    depends_on:
      - selenium-hub
    expose:
      - "5900"
    ports:
      - "XXXXXX:5900"
    volumes:
      - /etc/localtime:/etc/localtime:ro
    restart: always
    shm_size: 512mb
    deploy:
      resources:
        limits:
          cpus: '0.8'
          memory: 1548M

[vertigo17]

From your logs, I see that -a (--authorisedFolderScope) has been feed with null.
For sure that will have a strange behaviour.
Let me know when you can test with that parameter defined.

[j0hnsa]

I'm not being able to launch a node with the argument -a, an exception is raised, can you please advise on how to use it?

Below is one example of the command I tried to use with the -a:

java -cp "selenium-server-standalone-3.141.59.jar;cerberus-robot-extension-1.8-SNAPSHOT-full.jar" org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncherV3 -role node -hub http://127.0.0.1:4444/grid/register -port 4445 -a "C:\selenium" -servlets org.sikuliserver.ExecuteSikuliAction -servlets org.cerberus.robot.extension.sikuli.ExecuteSikuliAction -servlets org.cerberus.robot.extension.filemanagement.ExecuteFilemanagementAction -servlets org.cerberus.robot.extension.management.ExecuteManagementAction
Exception in thread "main" com.beust.jcommander.ParameterException: Was passed main parameter '-a' but no main parameter was defined in your arg class
at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.initMainParameterValue(JCommander.java:936)
at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.parseValues(JCommander.java:752)
at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.parse(JCommander.java:340)
at com.beust.jcommander.JCommander.parse(JCommander.java:319)
at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncherV3.parse(GridLauncherV3.java:218)
at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncherV3.lambda$buildLaunchers$7(GridLauncherV3.java:271)
at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncherV3.lambda$launch$0(GridLauncherV3.java:86)
at java.base/java.util.Optional.map(Optional.java:265)
at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncherV3.launch(GridLauncherV3.java:86)
at org.openqa.grid.selenium.GridLauncherV3.main(GridLauncherV3.java:70)