Thanks for the replies.
The main issue for me was that chromedriver - by design as I understand
it - does not have Chromium use the normal ~/Downloads folder, but one
that has to be configured when initialising chromedriver. I cannot
easily share the code, but here is an extract (code like this is widely
shared on the web):
self.driver.command_executor._commands["send_command"] = (
"POST", '/session/$sessionId/chromium/send_command'
)
self.driver.execute("send_command", {
'cmd': 'Page.setDownloadBehavior', 'params': {'behavior': 'allow',
'downloadPath': /a/place/}}
)
The issue is that the snap setup ignores this location. So tests which are
expecting file to end up under "/a/place" don't find them.
Now, while investigating this, I may have mistakenly thought that the
lack of the ~/snap/.../Downloads was the problem. Though with hindsight,
it might have been because the directory did not exist rather than, as
you say, the directory not being writeable if created. At any rate I
suspect that, as above, chromedriver will set up Chromium not to use
this folder in any event. In other words, this is likely a red-herring.
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Title:
[snap] chromedriver does not download where configured
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
I've recently been forced to upgrade to the SNAP based chromium setup.
After being required to work through reconfiguring my $HOME, learn of
the need to set up $XAUTHORITY I just now discovered that none of my
Selenium based download tests work because the SNAP setup insists on
downloading to:
/home/xxx/snap/chromium/1165/Downloads
rather than where the chromederiver download settings have been
configured. Is there a way to override this?
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