MyDriver does not accept custom profile

[chfw]

class MyDriver(object):
def init(self):
driver = getattr(webdriver, settings.SELENIUM_DRIVER, None)
assert driver, "settings.SELENIUM_DRIVER contains non-existing driver"
if driver is webdriver.Remote:
....
else:
self.driver = driver() <- there is no way to pass custom profile to local selenium instance.!!!! <_<

[dragoon]

Hi, could you please tell me what do you mean by a custom profile?
You can assign a different browser from selenium by setting, for example:
SELENIUM_DRIVER = 'Firefox' in your settings file.

[chfw]

Hi,

The use case is:

to disable download dialog for certain type of downloaded file.

In order to do that, selenium allows customization of browser profile, such as:

profile = webdriver.FirefoxProfile()
profile.set_preference('browser.download.folderList', 2)
profile.set_preference('browser.download.manager.showWhenStarting', False)
profile.set_preference('browser.download.dir', '/tmp/')
profile.set_preference('browser.helperApps.neverAsk.saveToDisk', 'application/zip')

then

self.driver = driver(profile) helps

I verified above hack and they worked. If you could help expose that parameter to settings elegantly as you did for other parameters, that'd very helpful.

Br,
simo

[dragoon]

Hi simo,
as far as I understand, you need to set custom settings for the profile. In this case I would recommend you subclass MyDriver with your own implementation and set the required profile preferences inside __init__ after call to super.

At the moment your use-case looks too specific to me, and subclassing seems to be an adequate solution.