support for custom profiles in firefox env

[xrotwang]

i want to use selenium to test a website with HTTP basic authentication. This seems to be non-trivial. What I came up with is the following: I use firefox with a custom profile which has the credentials for the website stored and uses the AutoAuth plugin to send these (with no popup intervention). To make selenose use this profile, I patched configs.py as below. Dunno whether you'd consider including this (or a more portable variant) in selenose.

--- lib/python2.6/site-packages/selenose/configs.orig.py    2012-02-07 10:58:58.159132873 +0100
+++ lib/python2.6/site-packages/selenose/configs.py 2012-02-07 11:32:46.499126015 +0100
@@ -173,6 +173,22 @@
             # If defined return the integer value, else return nothing
             return self.getint('timeout')

+    def get_profile(self):
+        '''
+        Get the firefox profile
+        '''
+        from os.path import expanduser, join
+        from selenium.webdriver import FirefoxProfile
+
+        if self.has('profile'):
+            firefox_cfg = join(expanduser('~'), '.mozilla', 'firefox')
+            profiles = RawConfigParser()
+            profiles.read(join(firefox_cfg, 'profiles.ini'))
+            for section in filter(lambda s: s.startswith('Profile'), profiles.sections()):
+                if profiles.get(section, 'Name') == self.get('profile'):
+                    return FirefoxProfile(join(firefox_cfg, profiles.get(section, 'Path')))
+            
+
     def get_desired_capabilities(self):
         '''
         Get the desired capabilities.
@@ -241,6 +257,7 @@
         '''
         return Firefox(**filternone(
             timeout=self.get_timeout(),
+            firefox_profile=self.get_profile(),
         ))

 class IeEnv(BaseEnv):

[omansion]

Thanks for your patch!

I saw that profiles can also be used in Remote webdriver, so I'll have a look on how to handle this for both Firefox and Remote.

I'll keep you updated.