citrus waitFor().file fails to read a file - citrus-framework

Question

I’m trying to use waitFor() in my Citrustest to wait for an output file on disk to be written by the process I’m testing. I’ve used this code
outputFile = new File “/esbfiles/blesbt/bl03orders.99160221.14289.xml");
waitFor().file(outputFile).seconds(65L).interval(1000L);
after a few seconds, the file appears in the folder as expected. The user I’m running the test code as has permissions to read the file. The waitFor(), however, ends in a timeout.
09:46:44 09:46:44,818 DEBUG dition.FileCondition| Checking file path '/esbfiles/blesbt/bl03orders.99160221.14289.xml'
09:46:44 09:46:44,818 WARN dition.FileCondition| Failed to access file resource 'class path resource [esbfiles/blesbt/bl03orders.99160221.14289.xml] cannot be resolved to URL because it does not exist'
What could be the problem? Can’t I check for files outside the classpath?

Answer 1

This is actually a bug in Citrus. Citrus is working with the file path instead of the file object and in combination with Spring's PathMatchingResourcePatternResolver this causes Citrus to search for a classpath resource instead of using the absolute file path as external file system resource.
You can fix this by providing the absolute file path instead of the file object like this:
waitFor().file(“file:/esbfiles/blesbt/bl03orders.99160221.14289.xml")
.seconds(65L)
.interval(1000L);
Issue regarding broken file object conversion has been opened: https://github.com/christophd/citrus/issues/303
Thanks for pointing to it!