as I have promised I created a patch (in bugzilla, bug ID is 25487) that adds the feature of extracting references from downloaded pages to Latka. These references can be refered to in later <request> tags.
The basic idea is that there are three new Jelly tags - link, form and frame - that can be put in the body of a <request> tag. With the attributes of these tags it is possible to refer to a corresponding reference on a page that has already been downloaded. The tags alter the actual request to load the URL defined by this reference. To demonstrate I have written an alternative version of the TestCommonsWebsite.xml script that makes use of these new tags.
Some remarks to the code:
There is a new package o.a.c.latka.html that contains the classes for parsing HTML pages and extracting references. I could not use the URLExtractor class in the attic for this purpose because I had to obtain much more information from the page, e.g. the body of the <a> tags or hidden input fields in the body of a <form> tag.
The RequestImpl class had to be slightly modified to allow sub tags of the <request> tag to change the URL of the actual request (creation of the HttpMethod object is now deferred). Also the ResponseImpl class now maintains an object with all references extracted from this page, which is created on demand.
I hope that I have met all coding style guides. Please have a look at the code and let me know what you think. If you decide to apply the patch, I can also provide some documentation updates.
Regards Oli
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