I've recently started to test and use WatiN, and i came across some of problems/errors that i cant really solve.
First ill describe what i'm doing with my tests ..
I'll go and get all the links in a specific div in a list ... so i have a link lists ... which im gonna loop thru ...
In the loop im gonna use a link.clicknowait() function, to open that link (it opens in a new ie tab) .. then i sleep thread for like few seconds and i close that browser by attaching that link (url) to a new browser and after that the browser is closed as im using it always with 'using (..)' statement.
So the first problem is that when the browser gets all the links and start to click them one of the links might lead not the right page, meaning like it can lead to a page that is saying page doenst exist anymore, so after that i cant close that page anymore ... how to solve this and attack ie to that not existing page?
It hasnt got fixed url ... anything that you can recommend?
Is there a method something like "Try attach to ...." because else i get an error if it tries to attack a browser to a link which doesnt exist.
Also is there anyway to check if the link in a links list is still the right one, cuz i also had an exeption few times that it couldnt click on that link because it was empty in the page ...
Or can i check something like link.trytoclick() and if an error and just ignores that link and goes further ???
And the last question after clicking alot of links and opening and closing browser i got an error outofmemoryexception .. how can it be, i've used 'using statement' which always closed browser when it was out of it ...
Thanks in advance for the help.
You can use the href to open the link in the same window of your watin session, after you verify the link you can go back to original page.
Some thing like this:
string href = browser.Link("link_id").GetAttributeValue("href"); //or your link from the collection
browser.GoTo(href);
//Perform you check
browser.Back();
To check if the link exists use:
session.browser.Back();
Related
I'm using Geckofx 33.0.9.0 in my C# application, and I'm having a problem with navigating.
Generally it works well, I enter a URL and it takes me to a page. The problem is that if I enter a URL for a page that doesn't exist, it gives me a MessageBox titled 'Alert'.
1) This is really annoying. At least in my Opinion
2) I would really like to set it up, so if I navigate to a page that doesn't exist, it creates a google search from my url, like in most proper browsers.
I tried looking but Gecko isn'T really well documented, or at least I couldn't find it (Though if someone has documentation for it, that would be great!) and I couldn't find any other way of navigating other then the .Navigate('String Url/Uri') method.
What can I do to circumvent this Alert box? Is there a way?
I'm creating the GeckoWebBrowser Control in code btw.
I will of course post code if required.
to supress the alert message box you can try the following
Xpcom.Initialize(Paths.XulRunner);
GeckoPreferences.User["browser.xul.error_pages.enabled"] = false;
GeckoPreferences.User["browser.download.manager.showAlertOnComplete"] = false;
GeckoPreferences.User["security.warn_viewing_mixed"] = false;
GeckoPreferences.User["privacy.popups.showBrowserMessage"] = false;
As for the second idea, well, that shouldn't be very hard - you just need to check in the DocumentCompleted or NavigationFinished event for a page status - if it's not correctly loaded, then take the address string bit and redirect to google url + your string.
Hope this helps!
Ok, this should be easy, but I cannot seem to figure it out:
How do I identify and access the new post area (from the Dashboard) in WordPress, using selenium in VS/.Net?
I can access the title field easily by ID, like this:
Driver.Instance.FindElement(By.Id("title")).SendKeys("Sometitle");
But, looking at the page source, I cannot figure out how to access the post body.
In recent versions, I believe, there was an iframe, and it could be accessed like this:
Driver.Instance.SwitchTo().Frame("content_ifr");
Driver.Instance.SwitchTo().ActiveElement().SendKeys(body);
...but this doesn't work anymore, and looking at the source it seems that this has been changed.
So - does anyone know how to do this in recent versions of WordPress?
EDIT: It turns out that I was wrong; there IS indeed an iframe named "content_ifr". So the new question is: Why doesn't the above code work? It's supposed to switch the focus to the content frame, but it doesn't.
try
Driver.FindElement(By.XPath(""));
to find XPath in google chrome right click on element->Inspect element, then click on "Copy XPath".
Hope it helps!
The Problem
I have an iframe which Contains a form , once I submit the form the content of the iframe changes to something else based on the information . So I need to verify the elements/texts in result as a part of my test
What I did
I used Switch().Frame to submit the data to iframe , and used " WebDriverWait " to wait for results (I am waiting for an element )
The issue
After submission new elements do not get recognized and "wait for element" fails after time out even though the result screen visually loaded to the iframe ( I also tried increasing the time out , but no luck )
Am i doing something wrong ? or Can anyone give me suggestion ?
highly appreciate any help
I am working on the same scenario and this is working for it, you can try :
driver.switchTo().frame(frameid);
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[name=\"login\"]")).click();//whatever you want to perform in frame.
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
Thread.sleep(3000);
driver.switchTo().frame(frameid);
driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("input[name=\"login\"]")).getText();//Whar ever you want to perform.
If you have any concern so let me know.
Enjoy!
I think after submission - the element get changed now the element do not lie in iframe.
Use:
driver.switchTo().defaultContent();
And try recognizing element.
I am not pretty much sure. but can you give it a try.
Is the complete form loading again or just some text/info that you are providing?
I have a web page that contains a textbox and a submit button. When the user edits the text in the textbox and clicks another link (not the submit button) how do I display the 'Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page' popup message?
I have researched this on the net and found a few javascript examples. Is this the only way you can do this? If not, what is the best way to do it?
This is one of the multiple ways to achieve the same thing
function goodbye(e) {
if(!e) e = window.event;
//e.cancelBubble is supported by IE - this will kill the bubbling process.
e.cancelBubble = true;
e.returnValue = 'You sure you want to leave?'; //This is displayed on the dialog
//e.stopPropagation works in Firefox.
if (e.stopPropagation) {
e.stopPropagation();
e.preventDefault();
}
}
window.onbeforeunload=goodbye;
got it from here open js
Only the unload() event will work on JS. You can't manage it on the server.
Check out the answer to this other question on SO, it is very similar to your question
How to show the "Are you sure you want to navigate away from this page?" when changes committed?
Simple solution
window.onbeforeunload = confirmExit;
function confirmExit() {
return "Are you sure you want to leave this page?";
}
4guysFromRolla.com - Prompting a user to Save when Leaving a Page
You cannot use the onbeforeunload window method as it gets triggered by multiple ways like back and forth browser navigation links, refreshing the page, closing of the page, clicking on the links.
What i feel you have to bind the link tag for which you want display the navigation away message and then use the function for the status message display
window.addEvent('domready',function(){
$$('a').addEvent('click', function(e) {
//leaving(); function u wrote for displaying message
});
});
function leaving(e) {
if(!e)
e = window.event;
// return code for the displaying message
}
If you want to do this in a way that guarantees it will work on almost all browsers, use the JQuery library. The following describes the unload event.
http://www.w3schools.com/jquery/event_unload.asp
It's exactly for purposes like yours.
Just to elaborate a little, you would have to download the jquery js library and reference it in your project/page, but you'll probably want to do that eventually anyway.
If you want to control this from the server side, you can dynamically emit the jquery call in the OnPreRender.
Look into Jquery's .beforeunload property. Here is an example:
$(window).bind('beforeunload', function(){ return 'Click OK to exit'; });
Please note, beforeunload canot prevent a page from unloading or redirect it to another page for obvious reasons; it would be too easy to abuse. Also if you just want to run a function before unloading, try the following:
$(window).unload(function(){ alert('Bye.'); });
Finally, don't forget to referrence jQuery in your head tag by using:
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
The above gets you the latest version from the internet and saves you the trouble to download it, and of course you can do so optionally, but I am just trying to get your thing to work asap.
Oh, I also found an example for you. Click here to see a page that calls a function before it closes. Hope this helps bud.
I was able to get this to work with Andrei G's answer. I would add on that to get it to work in Chrome, add this to the end of his goodbye function:
return "";
I am writing a simple personal app that has a browser control and I want it to automatically "Refresh" gmail to check it more often than it does by default. There are monkey scripts that do this but I'm trying to add my personal style to it.
Anyhow, I've looked around and found everything but what I can do in csharp using the browser control.
I found this:
// Link the ID from the web form to the Button var
theButton = webBrowser_Gmail.Document.GetElementById("Refresh");
// Now do the actual click.
theButton.InvokeMember("click");
But it comes back with null in 'theButton' so it doesn't invoke anything.
Anyone have any suggestions?
It's been awhile since I've used JavaScript, but given the other answers and comments that there is no real ID associated with the element, could you do something like the following:
Search all Div's with an attribute of Role == 'Button' and an InnerHtml == 'Refresh'.
Once the correct InnerHtml is found, get the Element.
Invoke the click on the found Element.
Again, this may be blowing smoke, but thought I'd throw it out there.
edit: Just realized you are doing this with C# and a browser control; however, the concept would still be the same.
The best suggestion I could give you at this point involves an existing API that is used for .NET web browser based automation:
http://watin.org/
Since the div tag with the desired button really only seems to identify itself with the class name, you could use the Find.BySelector(“”) code included with the most recent version of watin.