Dan,
I had a similar problem, where I wanted to trigger keypress events.
The solution I came up with was to create a fake keyboard event and
pass that into my handler. My code here doesn't yet work for IE:
// try to simulate a key press to a textarea
// it will strip off double quotes too
Selenium.prototype.doInputKeys = function(locator, keys) {
// strip off any quotes
if (keys[0] == '"' && keys[keys.length -1] == '"') {
keys = keys.substring(1, keys.length -1);
}
keys = this.escapeString(keys);
var element = this.page().findElement(locator);
for(var i = 0; i < keys.length; i++) {
if (this.sendKeypress(element, keys.charCodeAt(i))) {
this.insertAtCursor(element, keys.charAt(i));
}
}
}
// simulate pressing the escape key
Selenium.prototype.doPressEscape = function (locator) {
var element = this.page().findElement(locator);
sendKeypress(element, 27);
}
Selenium.prototype.escapeString = function (text) {
text = text.replace(/\\b/g,'\b'); // backspace
text = text.replace(/\\f/g,'\f'); // form feed
text = text.replace(/\\n/g,'\n'); // new line
text = text.replace(/\\r/g,'\r'); // carriage return
text = text.replace(/\\t/g,'\t'); // tab
return text;
}
// create an "event" object (heh) and send it to the handler
Selenium.prototype.sendKeypress = function (element, keyCode, str) {
if (document.all) {
throw new Error("sendKeyPress is unimplemented for IE: please fix");
}
else {
var evt = new Object();
evt.charCode = evt.keyCode = keyCode;
return element.onkeypress(evt);
}
}
// puts text into the form where the cursor currently is
Selenium.prototype.insertAtCursor = function (myField, myValue) {
//IE support
if (document.selection) {
myField.focus();
sel = document.selection.createRange();
sel.text = myValue;
}
//MOZILLA/NETSCAPE support
else if (myField.selectionStart || myField.selectionStart == 0) {
var startPos = myField.selectionStart;
var endPos = myField.selectionEnd;
myField.value = myField.value.substring(0, startPos)
+ myValue
+ myField.value.substring(endPos, myField.value.length);
} else {
myField.value += myValue;
}
}
HTH,
Luke
On Fri, Dec 09, 2005 at 11:02:38PM -0800, Dan Fabulich wrote:
>
> Today I tried to use Selenium to automatically test this:
> http://www.irian.at/myfaces-sandbox/inputSuggestAjax.jsf
>
> It's an autocompleting AJAX input field. (The implementation just
> suggests what you typed followed by numbers, so for "foo" it suggests
> "foo1", "foo2", "foo3", "foo4", etc.)
>
> Immediately I ran into the problem that I couldn't trigger a keypress
> using Selenium. I therefore stole FJH's code from here:
> http://jira.openqa.org/browse/SEL-143
>
> This code seemed to work, but it forced the autocomplete control not to
> autocomplete, because at the end of every triggered event in
> selenium-browserbot.js, it ends the action by triggering a "blur" event on
> the control. PageBot.selectOption, .replaceText, and .clickElement all
> come with automatic blurs at the end; FJH just reproduced this in his
> .keypressElement, .keydownElement, .mouseoverElement, and
> .mousedownElement.
>
> Unfortunately, the AJAX autocompleter has logic that says: "If I still
> have the focus once the AJAX request is done, then display a nifty
> auto-completion list... otherwise, the user must be doing something else,
> so forget about it." Since all of the PageBot triggered events blur
> immediately after action, the autocompleter never thinks it should
> autocomplete.
>
> Commenting out the 'blur's seemed to do the trick, but I'm a little
> nervous about doing that. Are these 'blur' actions good for me for some
> reason? Does adding them fix a bug that I'm now re-exposing?
>
> -Dan
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