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Greetings,
I need selenium to select a value in the ajax - generated select list (
step 3 in sequence below )
after selenium 'types' first few characters of the word into associated
text input field
Without selenium the sequence is following:
1. type 'AM' in text field id='123'
2. ajax drop-down list appears with AM* entries like ['AMA', 'AMG', ... ,
'AMAZON BOOKS' .... ]
3. click on any list item (or mouseClick and Enter)
4. list's javascript event handler populates text field id='123' with
value selected from the list
5. ....the rest of the page lists get populated based on selection above
Any help will be greatly appreciated
.....
you don't say what the problem is. I have recently been through this exercise of
handling AJAX with selenium and found two problems.
1) waiting on dynamically loaded content.
2) waiting for the target page DOM to construct stuff.
My answer to 2) was simple just pause an appropriate amount of time. I tried
pausing for 1), but that didn't work when the server got transatlantic and
latency was larger.
My answer to 1) was approximately as follows.
add selenium commands
prepareForAjax & waitForAjax.
prepareForAjax started waiting for all my target page ajax objects to be sent.
waitForAjax waited until all the ajaxy things started since the call of
prepareForAjax had finished and then paused for the data to be processed.
The test then looked like
prepareForAjax||
click|myajaxthingy|
waitForAjax|1000|wait on the ajax and then some
Sounds pretty easy, but was in fact quite hard and took some effort to get
things working properly. The main problem was how to get at all the activated
ajax things. I guess a proper approach would be to wrap the XMLHttpRequest
object in the target page so it did that for us, but I had already got my own
wrapper and had to hack that to provide onSend and onFinish events (my wrapper
always finishes perhaps with error/timeout) so I can guarantee that the wait for
the async stuff will eventually terminate.
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Robin Becker
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