[Webtest] storeregex - how does the store part work?

[Jeannie Graham]

Hi Bill,

	Do you have any suggestions where the best place to read up on
regular expressions is?   I went to the links provided by Webtest, but I had
trouble understanding it and so, gave up.   

Thanks for any suggestions,
Jeannie

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Milbratz [mailto:Bmilbratz@participate.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 8:33 AM
To: 'webtest@lists.canoo.com'
Subject: RE: [Webtest] storeregex - how does the store part work?


the group allows you to 'save' values in parentheses for later use. 

I definitely recommend anyone with some spare cycles to read up a little on
regular expressions as they can be very handy (you can start w/ the easy
stuff to get a feel for things). More and more tools support them. I use
them in my emacs, Idea, grep, and webtest to name a few.

bill milbratz




-----Original Message-----
From: lisa.crispin@att.net [mailto:lisa.crispin@att.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:09 AM
To: webtest@lists.canoo.com
Subject: RE: [Webtest] storeregex - how does the store part work?


Thank you.  I don't really understand what the group does, but it works!
-- Lisa


> You need to use the group part. here's an example that works:
> 
> <storeregex
>        stepid="Store Title of public facing pagePage"
>        text="TITLE&gt;(.*)&lt;/TITLE"
>       group="1"
>       property="previous.title" />
> ......
> <verifytitle stepid="Verify previous title"
>     text="#{previous.title}"
>     regex="false" />
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lisa.crispin@att.net [mailto:lisa.crispin@att.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 7:53 PM
> To: webtest@lists.canoo.com
> Subject: [Webtest] storeregex - how does the store part work?
> 
> 
> I need to extract a userid out of my html so I can then click on the right
> link for the user I want (I don't know the userid in advance, only the
> username).  I got the regex to work ok, at least it says it passes, but it
> stores the whole HTML page, not just the part I want.  What did I do
wrong?
> I'm sure something really dumb.  I'm trying to store 5 digits that come
> after 'userId='.  I'm not very good with regex or with WebTest, it's a
> deadly combo.
> 
> 	<storeregex stepid="get userid of user to delete"
> 	
>
text=".*Username:.*TestCSRApr28b.*func=deleteAccount&amp;userId=(\d&#123;5&#
> 125;)&quot;.*"
> 		property="deleteUserid"
> 		/>
> 
> 	<clicklink stepid="go to delete for that user" 
> 		label="deleteAccount&amp;userid=#{deleteUserid}" />
> 
> Another question is, could I use a property for the value of the username
in
> the storegex text itself?  Instead of hardcoding 'TestCSRApr28b' can I use
> something like ${username}?
> Thank you,
> Lisa
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