[Webtest] GET METHOD

[Stein Erik Berget]

Uira Kulesza wrote:

> Hi Canoo Web Test Team,
>
> I started to use Canoo to do some acceptance tests in our web applications.
>
> The majority of  our web applications use javascript to validate some
> fields in HTML Forms, so I can't use tags <setinputfield> and
> <clickbutton> to submit some requests to Java Servlets that we build. In
> this case, we've tried to use tag <invoke>, doing HTTP Get Method
> submissions to our Java Servlets, like:
>
>        <invoke stepid="Acess to Register Cliente Servlet"
>
> url="servletRegisterClient?name=blablabla&amp;address=blllakjkajdfklja"
>                      save="registerCliente" />
>
> Doing my work like this way, I could have "big" HTTP Get Method
> submissions to my servlets. My doubt is: do you know if there's any
> restriction to the length of HTTP Get Method, in protocol, browser or
> server???

Sure there is! This is browser dependent. I don't know if httpUnit has some
restrictions here. The server side also has some restrictions. Large inputs
should always be submitted as post. This is currently impossible in the webTest
version that excist's today. I would have liked to be able to do something like
this:

     <steps>
       <setpostfield name="title" value="${title}" />
       <setpostfield name="ingress" value="${ingress}" />
       <setpostfield name=linktext" value="${linktext}" />

       <invoke stepid="Get index file" url="/template/test.jsp"
     method="post" />
         <verifyxpath stepid="Linked title" select="/html/body/h1/a"
     value="${title}" />
         <verifyxpath stepid="Check for ingress" select="/html/body/p"
     value="${ingress}" />
         <verifyxpath stepid="Linked linktext" select="/html/body/p/a"
     value="${linktext}" />
     </steps>

I haven't tried to "fake" a post request by generating a fake form or
something, but I guess that it is a workaround, but an ugly one...
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Stein Erik Berget
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