[Webtest] Newbie forms submission question

[Petter Måhlén]

Hi,

Not sure if the question I sent yesterday about using <scriptStep /> has
made it through the moderation procedure yet, but in any case, I have
figured out that that isn't the way I should go. The problem is this: I want
to verify a login page, where the user inputs login information into a Flash
clip that then uses Javascript to submit the actual login. (Guess that's due
to legacy code..) The relevant parts of the HTML page are:

<script language="JavaScript">
	function login(email, password) {
		var frm = document.forms.loginForm;
		frm.email.value = email;
		frm.password.value = password;
		frm.submit();
	}
</script>

<form action="/main/authentication/login" name="loginForm" method="post">
 	<input type="hidden" name="email" value="">
	<input type="hidden" name="password" value="">
</form>

My first attempt at testing this was using the <scriptStep/> to call the
login() function. My second attempt was:

<selectForm description="select the login form" name="loginForm" />
<setInputField description="user name" name="email" value="${login.email}"
/>
<setInputField description="password" name="password"
value="${login.password}" />
<invoke description="submit the login form" url="authentication/login"
method="POST" />

That also doesn't work, due to the fact that hidden input fields cannot be
set with <setInputField/>. Is there a reason for that, or would it be OK to
change hasTextOrPasswordField() into hasSettableInputField() (or whatever
would be felt to be an appropriate name) along the below lines:

    private static boolean hasSettableInputField(final HtmlForm form, final
String name) {
        final List li = form.getInputsByName(name);
        for (final Iterator iter = li.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
            final HtmlInput element = (HtmlInput) iter.next();
            if
(HtmlConstants.TEXT.equalsIgnoreCase(element.getTypeAttribute())
                   ||
HtmlConstants.HIDDEN.equalsIgnoreCase(element.getTypeAttribute())
|| HtmlConstants.PASSWORD.equalsIgnoreCase(element.getTypeAttribute())) =
{
                return true;
            }
        }
        return false;
    }

Thanks in advance,

Petter


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