Hey Marc, Thanks for the quick reply. I did manage to get it working by editing the webtest.taskdef file inside the webtest.jar. But I do agree with you that this does make upgrading a bit more complicated. I'm going to give your solution a try, it seems to make a lot more sense than mine from what I can grasp initially.
Again thank you for your time, this was very helpful for me! -Mark On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Marc Guillemot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > don't wait so long before to ask! ;-) > > If you use webtest.xml, tasks are define in wt.defineTasks target and > loaded from the webtest.taskdef resource which is located in the > webtest.jar. > > I don't think that this is a good idea to put own stuff within webtest > dir as this makes upgrades more complicated. > > I prefer to define custom steps in Groovy but you can do this in java > too, for instance with something like > > <target name="wt.defineTasks.init" description="customized classpath"> > <antcall target="wt.webtest.wt.defineTasks.init" inheritRefs="true"/> > <path id="wt.defineTasks.classpath.customPrepend"> > <pathelement location="path/to/your/classes"/> > </path> > </target> > > and then > <taskdef name="myStep" classname="my.custom.step" > loaderref="wt.defineTasks.loader" > classpathref="wt.defineTasks.classpath.id"/> > somewhere before the tests are run. > > Cheers, > Marc. > -- > Blog: http://mguillem.wordpress.com > > > Mark Greene wrote: > > I've been trying to create my own custom step with little success. I > > jared up a simple class that extends the Step class and implements the > > doExecute() method. I took that jar, put it in the WEBTEST_HOME/lib > > directory and added an entry to the webtestTaskdefs.properties file. > > > > When I try to run the test I get the familiar ANT error:Could not create > > task or type of type: verifyMyXPath > > > > After several hours I decided to just take the verifyText entry: > > verifyText:com.canoo.webtest.steps.verify.VerifyText and copy it but > > rename the task def to: > > > > verifyMyText:com.canoo.webtest.steps.verify.VerifyText > > > > When I referenced this in my test file I got the same error. It appears > > to me that whatever I put in the webtestTaskDefs.properties file isn't > > being honored. I'm using the latest development build: R_1681. > > > > I was hoping someone could point out a fundamental step that I'm > missing. > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Mark > > _______________________________________________ > WebTest mailing list > WebTest@lists.canoo.com > http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest >
