Selenium WebDriver throwing TimoutException while invoking getScreenshotAs()

Question

This is my code.

public static void test1() throws IOException {
    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "data/chromedriver.exe");
    drive = new ChromeDriver();
    drive.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
    try {
        drive.get("http://youtube.com");
    }catch(TimeoutException e) {
        printSS();
    }

}

public static void printSS() throws IOException{
    String path = "logs/ss/";
    File scrFile = ((TakesScreenshot)drive).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
    FileUtils.copyFile(scrFile, new File(path + "asdasdas" + ".jpg"));
}

All time when driver.get() throw TimeoutException I want to take a screenshot at browser.

But when throw TimeoutException, getScreenshotAs() from printSS() don't take screenshot because throw another TimeoutException.

Why getScreenshotAs() throw TimeoutException and how to take screenshot at browser

P.S.: Increase pageLoadTimeout time is not the answer I want.

Answer 1

The problem is that while Selenium waits for the page to complete loading it cannot take any other command. This is why it throws TimeoutException also from the exception handler when you try take the screenshot. The only option I see is to take the screenshot not through Selenium, but using other means that take a screenshot of the entire desktop. I've written such a thing in C#, but I'm pretty sure you can either find a way to do it in Java too.