i have my own checks in place to wait for elements on the screen that i know are going to be there, but this seems to be part of the internal framework of watir that is blowing up on me. my own code has no dependency on readyState, i'm just using the rescue clause as a work around until i can figure out what's going on
On May 11, 3:32 pm, Charley Baker <[email protected]> wrote: > It's not a wise idea to depend on that. Instead look for the controls and > elements you expect to have after the event occurs. There are several posts > in the group and actually several frameworks that leverage this mechanism. > Unfortunately readystate is really not a guarantee that the browser is > actually ready in this case. > > HTH, > > Charley Baker > Lead Developer, Watir,http://watir.com > > On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:27 PM, CLARKETRON3000 <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > the rescue clause is recording the readyState as interactive > > i'm capturing the readystate to an array and doing a puts on the array > > afterwards (thanks for the help paul) > > > On May 11, 3:19 pm, CLARKETRON3000 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > update: > > > i am at least getting around this issue for the time being by putting > > > a rescue clause on my call to the submit button. from there, I am > > > spitting out the doc.readyState, but I suspect that by the time it's > > > actually displaying the readyState, it has resolved, otherwise it > > > wouldn't be running into this issue in the first place(???) > > > > On May 11, 2:45 pm, CLARKETRON3000 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I checked through the discussions here, and there are two jira tickets > > > > around ready state 446 and 466 that I could find, but neither really > > > > seemed to address this issue. > > > > > The error occurs on the website I'm testing on a form submit. There > > > > is also a javascript call that occurs if the submit takes longer than > > > > 3 seconds, an overlay "loading" image loads onto the screen. The > > > > error is intermittent, and not reliably reproducible but seems to > > > > occur more frequently on the times that the JS call occurs. > > > > > i'm using Watir 1.8.0, and IE8. > > > > here is the important parts of the stack: > > > > Exception:unknown property or method: `readyState' > > > > HRESULT error code:0x80004005 > > > > Unspecified error > > > > C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-1.8.0/lib/watir/ie-class.rb: > > > > 511:in `method_missing' > > > > C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-1.8.0/lib/watir/ie-class.rb: > > > > 511:in `block in wait' > > > > C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/1.9.1/timeout.rb:57:in `timeout' > > > > C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-1.8.0/lib/watir/ie-class.rb: > > > > 489:in `wait' > > > > C:/Ruby192/lib/ruby/gems/1.9.1/gems/watir-1.8.0/lib/watir/element.rb: > > > > 231:in `click' > > > > > I have tried doing a bit of debugging at least to see what's > > > > happening, adding a puts doc.readyState inside the until loop on line > > > > 511, but to no avail. It always comes back with complete or loading > > > > when it works, and when it gets the exception, i don't get the print > > > > out. > > > -- > > Before posting, please readhttp://watir.com/support. In short: search > > before you ask, be nice. > > > [email protected] > >http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general > > [email protected] -- Before posting, please read http://watir.com/support. In short: search before you ask, be nice. [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general [email protected]
