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thebick
Occasional Contributor
5 years ago

aqFile* Exists not find application-created folder

My application creates a folder during execution, but TestComplete's aqFile* methods don't find it during the test. Not aqFile.Exists, not aqFileSystem.Exists, not aqFileSystem.FindFolders. (But the...
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  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    5 years ago
    thebick wrote:

    Not sure I understand what you mean.

    When the application creates the folder (and a lot of sub-folders), I can see it easily in File Explorer -- just not via TC.

    I do not have access to source code, so I can't change how it behaves.

     

    Or are you suggesting something else?

    The suggestion is, as mentioned, system delay time.  Consider Button click happens and then the next lines of code execute almost immediately.  That might not be enough time to find the folder in the Windows file system (which is what aqFileSystem essentially is... a TC wrapper around around the FileSystem object from Microsoft).  So, perhaps a "delay" time of some sort... maybe a while loop to wait until either the folder exists OR you reach a maximum timeout.  Obviously, ParentDir exists by the time you get to creating bogus folder otherwise bogus folder wouldn't be found... so, there's a processing time there that needs to be accounted for.

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Wamboo
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Hi thebick,

 

Can you share with us a code example?

  • thebick's avatar
    thebick
    Occasional Contributor
    5 years ago

    Not sure I understand what you mean.

    When the application creates the folder (and a lot of sub-folders), I can see it easily in File Explorer -- just not via TC.

    I do not have access to source code, so I can't change how it behaves.

     

    Or are you suggesting something else?

    • tristaanogre's avatar
      tristaanogre
      Esteemed Contributor
      5 years ago
      thebick wrote:

      Not sure I understand what you mean.

      When the application creates the folder (and a lot of sub-folders), I can see it easily in File Explorer -- just not via TC.

      I do not have access to source code, so I can't change how it behaves.

       

      Or are you suggesting something else?

      The suggestion is, as mentioned, system delay time.  Consider Button click happens and then the next lines of code execute almost immediately.  That might not be enough time to find the folder in the Windows file system (which is what aqFileSystem essentially is... a TC wrapper around around the FileSystem object from Microsoft).  So, perhaps a "delay" time of some sort... maybe a while loop to wait until either the folder exists OR you reach a maximum timeout.  Obviously, ParentDir exists by the time you get to creating bogus folder otherwise bogus folder wouldn't be found... so, there's a processing time there that needs to be accounted for.