[Webtest] extending Step

[Denis N. Antonioli]

Hi Stepahn

Marc will correct me if I'm wrong ;-)
WebTest steps are not (yet??) ant tasks.
They have a more elaborate life cycle and other hooks.

I think that there is a template to write new steps, appropriately  
called MyCustomStep, in the doc.zip available at <http:// 
webtest.canoo.com/webtest/doc.zip>, as well as in the release  
directories.

Happy testing
	dna

On 13 sept. 06, at 20:44, Stefan Kuhn wrote:

> I've got some problems developing my own Webtest Task. In fact I  
> can't even get an empty-class extending a already finished Webtest- 
> class(like StorePropertyStep) to work.
>
> My ANT Script looks like following:
>
> <target name="test3">
> <taskdef name="mytask" classname="javaTestSupport.CommonTasks 
> $AntTest" classpathref="classpath"/>
> 		<webtest ...>
> 			<config .../>
> 			<steps>
>                               <mytask />
> 			</steps>
> 		</webtest>
> 	</target>
>
> Following the ANT manual apache-ant-1.6.5/docs/manual/ 
> develop.html#writingowntask
> following code is working :
>
> public class CommonTasks {
>     public static class AntTest extends Echo {}
> }
>
> BUT if I now extend any Webtest Class, like:
> public static class AntTest extends StorePropertyStep {}
> I get an exception:
>
> INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - Message was:  
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> ERROR (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - Cannot handle unexpected  
> exception in step TestStepSequence at C:\...justATest.webtest.xml: 
> 31:  with (taskName="steps")
> C:\...\justATest.webtest.xml:42: java.lang.NullPointerException
> at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:373)
> at com.canoo.webtest.ant.TestStepSequence.executeSteps 
> (TestStepSequence.java:43)
> at com.canoo.webtest.ant.TestStepSequence.doExecute 
> (TestStepSequence.java:31)
>
>
> How can I write my own Webtest Tasks?
> Sincerly,
>      Stefan
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