Any idea how to click a link with the following criteria:
<a href="javascript:window.location='/app/exe/add.do?Id=8&val=1&callerURL=details';
I tried several variations to the following examples, but can't seem to get it to work.
#$ie.a(:href => "http://app.com/app/exe/add.do?Id=8&val=1&callerURL=details").click
#$ie.link(:xpath,"//a[contains(#href='/app/exe/add.do?Id=8&val=1&callerURL=details')]/").click
#$ie.link(:href => "javascript:window.location='/app/exe/add.do?Id=8&val=1&callerURL=details'").click
#$ie.execute_script(:href => "javascript:window.location='/app/exe/add.do?Id=8&val=1&callerURL=details'").click
$ie.link(:xpath,"//a[contains(#href='/app/exe/add.do?Id=8&val=1&callerURL=details')]/").fire_event('onclick')
If you try to match the href by a string, it has to be an exact match. The variations you tried are missing some characters at the end.
Try:
$ie.link(:href => "javascript:window.location='/app/exe/add.do?Id=8&val=1&callerURL=details';").click
Note the '; were missing before.
Though there must be something better to identify the link with. Perhaps its text or its parent elements. Going based on this href, which is probably dynamic given the Id=8 part, is likely to be brittle.
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I am trying to formnulate a regex to get the ids from the below two strings examples:
/drugs/2/drug-19904-5106/magnesium-oxide-tablet/details
/drugs/2/drug-19906/magnesium-moxide-tablet/details
In the first case, I should get 19904-5106 and in the second case 19906.
So far I tried several, the closes I could get is [drugs/2/drug]-.*\d but would return g-19904-5106 and g-19907.
Please any help to get ride of the "g-"?
Thank you in advance.
When writing a regex expression, consider the patterns you see so that you can align it correctly. For example, if you know that your desired IDs always appear in something resembling ABCD-1234-5678 where 1234-5678 is the ID you want, then you can use that. If you also know that your IDs are always digits, then you can refine the search even more
For your example, using a regex string like
.+?-(\d+(?:-\d+)*)
should do the trick. In a python script that would look something like the following:
match = re.search(r'.+?-(\d+(?:-\d+)*)', my_string)
if match:
my_id = match.group(1)
The pattern may vary depending on the depth and complexity of your examples, but that works for both of the ones you provided
This is the closest I could find: \d+|.\d+-.\d+
I try to hide the getPage [[+pageNav]] Placeholder if there is no pagination. But I can't do the following.
[[!+pageNav:notempty=`<ul class="overview__pagination">[[!+pageNav]]</ul>`]]
Does someone know how I can hide the element with an apropriate output filter? (without own extra snippet). I also tried the following and some other (not likely to work variations).
[[!+pageNav:isnot=``:then=`<ul class="overview__pagination">[[!+pageNav]]</ul>`]]`
Are you calling that code in a chunk that is cached?
Otherwise i've experienced this aswell and it seems custom placeholders sometimes behave that way, it's probably due to the fact that they actually have some unprocessed value during the IF computation but when it's actually output you see nothing. Or that the value is somehow "null" instead of "" while modx output filter might do a strict comparison.
If you're not calling it in a cached chunk or part of code, i suggest first trying with another getPage placeholder such as pageCount or total.
Like:
[[!+pageCount:gt=`1`:then=`<ul class="overview__pagination">[[!+page.nav]]</ul>`]]
If that still doesn't work, a last resort in the form of a simple snippet will always solve it, like:
[[!outputPagination? &total=`[[+total]]` &limit=`XX` &output=`<ul class="overview__pagination">[[!+page.nav]]</ul>`]]
In snippet:
if ($total > $limit) {
return $output;
}
Shouldn't it be...
[[!+page.nav:notempty=`<ul class="overview__pagination">[[!+page.nav]]</ul>`]]
Well, there is a much more easier way to do it than in the first answer. It's like TheMistaC says, even if my answer is a lot easier:
[[!+page.nav:notempty=`
[[!+page.nav]]
`]]
I use it to display a list of articles with getResources, so I know this works fine.
I was wondering about some best practices regarding extraction of selectors to constants. As a general rule, it is usually recommended to extract magic numbers and string literals to constants so they can be reused, but I am not sure if this is really a good approach when dealing with selectors in Capybara.
At the moment, I have a file called "selectors.rb" which contains the selectors that I use. Here is part of it:
SELECTORS = {
checkout: {
checkbox_agreement: 'input#agreement-1',
input_billing_city: 'input#billing\:city',
input_billing_company: 'input#billing\:company',
input_billing_country: 'input#billing\:country_id',
input_billing_firstname: 'input#billing\:firstname',
input_billing_lastname: 'input#billing\:lastname',
input_billing_postcode: 'input#billing\:postcode',
input_billing_region: 'input#billing\:region_id',
input_billing_street1: 'input#billing\:street1',
....
}
In theory, I put my selectors in this file, and then I could do something like this:
find(SELECTORS[:checkout][:input_billing_city]).click
There are several problems with this:
If I want to know the selector that is used, I have to look it up
If I change the name in selectors.rb, I could forget to change it somewhere else in the file which will result in find(nil).click
With the example above, I can't use this selector with fill_in(SELECTORS[:checkout][:input_billing_city]), because it requires an ID, name or label
There are probably a few more problems with that, so I am considering to get rid of the constants. Has anyone been in a similar spot? What is a good way to deal with this situation?
Someone mentioned the SitePrism gem to me: https://github.com/natritmeyer/site_prism
A Page Object Model DSL for Capybara
SitePrism gives you a simple, clean and semantic DSL for describing
your site using the Page Object Model pattern, for use with Capybara
in automated acceptance testing.
It is very helpful in that regard and I have adjusted my code accordingly.
I am using watir-webdriver (0.5.3) in a Cucumber (1.1.9) test. I am attempting to verify the text value of an <acronym> tag. The code is legacy, and there are plans to change it to a <div> or <span> tag, but in the mean time I have to deal with it. I first attempted:
#browser.acronym(:id => /expense_code(.*)/).text
I received the following error:
NoMethodError: undefined method `acronym' for #<Watir::Browser:0x33e9940>
I poked around in the Watir code to see how tag objects were being created, and found that they seem to be dynamically created based on the HTML5 spec, but then I also found a comment in element.rb stating that they are no longer being created from the spec. At any rate, I couldn't see an easy way to inherit a <span> object and call it an <acronym> object. So, I looked into alternatives, and found the element object.
#browser.element(:id => /expense_code(.*)/).text
This code works, but it takes about a minute to traverse my page. I'm stuck with the regex for now, as the tag id is actually dynamically generated and I don't currently have a way to figure out those values. This is what the tag actually looks like:
<acronym class="editable select fillwith:exp_codes default:E100"
title="Expense Code: Expenses" id="expense_code114_582_10777">
E100 </acronym>
I would appreciate any thoughts on how I can improve the performance of my test.
Is that class name predictable? could you construct that from a set part plus the text you are about to validate (it's the same in your example above) and go that way?
acronym = 'E100'
browser.element(:class, 'editable select fillwith:exp_codes default:#{acronym}'.text.should == acronym
Does using XPath to limit the elements to just acronym tags help performance?
#browser.element(:xpath, "//acronym[contains(#id, 'expense_code')]")
UPDATE: As Chuck mentioned, CSS-Selector is also an option:
#browser.element(:css => "acronym[id^=expense_code]")
I was recently stealing logic from Watir 1.6.5 to make custom locators/collections for my page objects and I noticed in the Watir::TaggedElementLocator, it kind of supports any method that the element supports. Noticing in Watir-Webdriver that elements have a tag_name() method, I thought I would try the same and it looks like it works.
So you can use tag_name as a locator by doing:
#browser.element(:tag_name => 'acronym', :id => /expense_code(.*)/).text
I'm not sure what order the locators get run in, so since the regex is expensive, it might be faster to get all the acronym elements and then find the one with the right ID:
#browser.elements(:tag_name, 'acronym').find{ |acronym|
acronym.id =~ /expense_code(.*)/
}.text
While I think it makes the code look better, unfortunately I'm not sure if its any faster. I am guessing the performance of each will depend on the specific page layout being tested.
I'm not sure what the proper etiquette is here, but this is the answer I came up with using Chuck's reply and feedback from jarib in the #watir IRC chat. With all my examples, expense_code = 'E100'.
#browser.element(:tag_name => "acronym",
:class => "default:#{expense_code}").text
The above code works at a very reasonable speed and doesn't require an xpath. It is a shortening of the following code:
#browser.element(:tag_name => "acronym",
:class => "editable select fillwith:exp_codes default:#{expense_code}").text
I learned that I didn't need to pass the whole string. Anything in a class delimited by a space is dealt with gracefully by watir. I adapted that code from this xpath:
#browser.element(:xpath => "//acronym[contains(#class,
\'editable select fillwith:exp_codes default:#{expense_code}\')]").text
The gotcha in that code above was needing to escape out the ' around the class values so that it would evaluate correctly.
Just searching for the class (code below) did not work. I have no idea why. I did notice that it pounded the database with requests. Whatever it was doing, the page didn't like it. Though the reason it was trying multiple times is I slipped a wait_until_present in there.
#browser.element(:class, "editable select fillwith:exp_codes
default:#{expense_code}").text
Thanks for the help. :)
I am looking for how to identify common chars from a set of strings of different
length. First let me tell the same problem had posted here, and the author is somehow able to find out the answer. But i could not get his solution. I tried to post my query over
there, but not sure whether I will get any reply. So i am posting as a new one. (this is
the link for old qs Find common chars in array of strings, in the right order
of-strings-in-the-right-order).
I m taking the same example from him.
Let's assume "+" is the "wildcard char":
Array(
0 => '48ca135e0$5',
1 => 'b8ca136a0$5',
2 => 'c48ca13730$5',
3 => '48ca137a0$5');
Should return :
$wildcard='+8ca13+0$5';
This looks to me as a standard problem. so i doubt there will be some library
for this. If not pls show some light for solving this.
I dont think comparing char-by-char work (as told in the reply), becoz the matching char can come in anywhere (eg:- arr1[1] and arr2[3] can be starting index of matching some substring and the other way also).
regards,
Looks like you're looking for the "longest common substring". The first longest common substring is 8ca13, the second longest is 0$5. Once we have these two strings, you can take any of the strings in the set and replace extra characters with a single +.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_common_substring_problem