Verifying PDF download... ?

[Chris]

I have a drop down on a web page and i select an item in the list. I click the submit button and it automatically downloads the file into my /Downloads folder (Chrome). How can I verify that the PDF was downloaded successfully? I dont want to check the contents of the PDF (no DOM), all I want is to verify that a file got downloaded successfully and it didn't time out/redirect to an error page/etc... Thanks for the help!

 

- Chris

[Aaron]

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.file.exists(v=vs.110).aspx

This could be useful, and could be used to check that the file downloaded in a coded step.

[Boyan Boev]

Hello Chris,

This can be done in a coded step with method which Aaron posted. 

Let us know if that helps.

@Aaron, thank you for sharing your knowledge with your community.


Regards,
Boyan Boev
Telerik by Progress

 

[Chris]

Thanks for the suggestion! In my situation, the file is generated on the fly rather than checking a path and seeing if the file exists. Is that still possible? Thanks in advance.

[Elena]

Hello Chris,

Thanks for getting back to us. 

As far as I understand you would like to double check if a file is currently opened. If so please note that this should be accomplished with a coded solution which would be subject of general C3 programming approach and could implemented in a coded step. 

I searched the web for some advice and here is a forum post which might be useful to suit your needs along with details from MSDN about the FileStream Class and FileStream Constructor. 

I hope these will be helpful! Thank you for your cooperation! 

Regards,
Elena Tsvetkova
Progress Telerik