I just figured I'd post this quick work-around as I've run into this problem a few times and the actual solution is *much* simpler than the solution I had originally come up with...
Whenever you're using one of the assert<Text> methods (for example assertAlert), and the test string that you want to check against contains a colon, you might run into an error something like "cannot find PatternMatcher.strategies.<text_before_colon>". What's happening here is that part of your test string is being interpretted as a pattern-matching strategy. ie, like "regexp:", "exact:" etc.. (See htmlutils.js, line 146 which evaluates "/^([a-zA-Z]+):(.*)/.test(pattern)", which does match your test pattern... The way to get around this, is to place an asterisk (*) at the start of your test string. This makes the condition on line 146 fails, and shouldn't affect your text result either as the check will still function in the expected way. Examples: <tr> <td>assertAlert</td> <td>Login: is required.</td> <td><td> <tr> .. will fail and give an error message "cannot find PatternMatcher.strategies.Login" but, <tr> <td>assertAlert</td> <td>*Login: is required.</td> <td></td> </tr> .. will work appropriately as long as the alert contains the string "Login: is required." somewhere... I hope this helps anyone who gets stuck on this.. - Peter Bernier _______________________________________________ Selenium-users mailing list Selenium-users@lists.public.thoughtworks.org http://lists.public.thoughtworks.org/mailman/listinfo/selenium-users
