Paul,
I just put a quick performance page with 200 radio elements on.
Using Watir 1.6.2 in a Windows XP Virtual Machine it took me just
under 5 seconds to iterate over all of them and print the values. I
agree that it did seem to run more slowly per element by the end.
Could you possibly create a test page which you can share that
recreates the issue you are seeing?
Thanks,
Alex
On 21 May 2009, at 05:15, Paul Denize wrote:
>
> I finally found a performance issue and it was in the watir library.
>
> If a page (and dont get me started about it) has 200 plus radio
> buttons and your watir script decides to print all the attributes like
> so
>
> radios = ie.radios()
> for radio in radios
> puts radio.name
> puts radio.value
> end
>
> Then please be ready to wait for 16 Minutes .....
>
> It seems it goes slower and slower as the process runs ... asking for
> the name or value of the 200th will take a LOT longer than asking for
> the name/value of the 1st.
>
> I was somewhat confused when I called ie.radios the documentation
> suggests it returns an array of radios. But that would imply that
> asking for a property on the first item in the arrray would be exactly
> the same speed as asking for a property on the last (which clearly it
> is not).
>
> Now I started to do the same parsing of the document as done by
> show_all_objects but I had difficulty replicating some attributes
> (like a links text) and some of the element types.
>
> Could someone please look at the performance issues with these
> functions or suggest a function that could output all the page
> elements. I was using the code below and calling with say
>
> puts objectlist(ie.links)
> puts objectlist(ie.forms)
> puts objectlist(ie.text_fields)
> puts objectlist(ie.radios)
> puts objectlist(ie.checkboxes)
> puts objectlist(ie.select_lists)
> puts objectlist(ie.file_fields)
> puts objectlist(ie.buttons)
>
> Now normally I was only outputting one when the user called sa radio
> (:id,'xxx') and it failed I'd output objectlist(ie.radios) so they
> could see all the radios that exist. But the performance has meant I
> have had to comment all that out for now.
>
> def objectlist(objects)
> objs_info = []
> index=1
> objects.each {|f|
> obj_info = []
> obj_info.push(":index=#{index}")
> index+=1
> begin
> if (f.object_id!="")
> obj_info.push(":id=#{f.object_id}")
> end
> rescue
> end
> begin
> if (f.name!="")
> obj_info.push(":name=#{f.name}")
> end
> rescue
> end
> begin
> if (f.text!="")
> obj_info.push(":text=#{f.text}")
> end
> rescue
> end
> begin
> if (f.value!="")
> obj_info.push(":value=#{f.value}")
> end
> rescue
> end
> puts obj_info.join(", ")
> objs_info.push(obj_info.join(", "))
> }
> return objs_info
> end
>
>
> >
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