Thanks Paul,

the code provided to (4) works fine. 

The problems described under (3) are gone after an update to Canoo Webtest: 
R_1378.

-stefan



-------- Original-Nachricht --------
Datum: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 19:33:49 +1000
Von: Paul King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
An: [email protected]
Betreff: Re: [Webtest] dynamic webtest attributes(variables) in Java Class

> 
> Sorry for not responding earlier. I was overseas for most of
> the week and didn't have very good (cheap) Internet access.
> 
> For (3) it looks like you are setting up a database using dbunit
> and it can't find the table you are trying to update. The email
> steps themselves don't use dbunit, so I think the problem is
> with the dbunit config. I can't tell whether the email steps
> are being run correctly and the problem is with subsequent steps
> or ant tasks or if it stops before reaching the email steps.
> 
> For (4) you could look at something like <retry>. The email manual
> selftests use this approach. Here is a snippet:
> 
>     <target name="awaitArrival">
>         <sleep seconds="15"/><!-- initial delay to wait for messages to
> arrive -->
>         <webtest name="emailManualTests: awaitArrival">
>             <steps>
>                 &sharedConfiguration;
>                 <emailSetConfig server="${mailserver}" type="pop3"
> password="${password}" username="${username}"/>
>                 <retry maxcount="15">
>                     <sleep seconds="5"/>
>                     <emailStoreMessageCount subject="/mailtest -
> multifiles/" property="emailcount"/>
>                     <verifyXPath xpath="#{emailcount}>=3" text="true"/>
>                 </retry>
>             </steps>
>         </webtest>
>     </target>
> 
> This example waits 15 seconds initially then loops up to 15 times
> with a 5 second delay during each loop. This will allow you to use
> more reasonable delay settings which don't slow your tests down too
> much waiting for the worst case email delay - which could be quite
> large.
> 
> Note: you might have to experiment with the loop delay. Some email
> servers don't like being called repeatedly in quick succession.
> They introduce a delay to stop denial of service attacks and/or
> minimise the possibility of multiple simultaneous logins.
> 
> Cheers, Paul.
> 
> Marc Guillemot wrote:
> > 3 & 4) sorry, I've never used these steps, perhaps can Paul answer your 
> > question.
> > 
> > Marc.
> > 
> > PS: what about using the latest build, it would be easier for us to look
> > at a particular line of the source
> > 
> > Stefan Kuhn wrote:
> >> Concerning webtest.version::Canoo Webtest: R_1217.
> >>
> >> I have several problems with Canoo Webtest, they could be split in 
> >> these points:
> >> 3.   Access an email (via the filters)
> >> 4.   Proper way to wait for a specific email
> >>
> >> 3)
> >> I switched to testing emails and after some hours I stuck in problems 
> >> again.
> >> I want to access the content of a plain email. Therefore I want to 
> >> SAVE the email once. Whenever I try to do this, an exception is thrown
> >>
> >> Following code is working:
> >>      <emailSetConfig server="@{eMail.mailServer}" 
> >> type="@{eMail.serverType}" password="@{eMail.password}" 
> >> username="@{eMail.userName}" delay="@{eMail.serverDelay}" />
> >>            <sleep seconds="@{emailReceiveTime}"/>
> >>                       <emailStoreMessageId 
> >> from="@{eMail.petToyServerEMailAdress}" to="@{eMail.UserEmailAddress}" 
> >> property="confirmEMail.id" propertyType="dynamic" 
> >> subject="@{eMail.registerdNewUserSuccessfully.Header}" />
> >>
> >>            <emailMessageContentFilter description="MessageContent of 
> >> confirmation email" contentType="simple" 
> >> messageId="#{confirmEMail.id}" />
> >>
> >> I verified that the code is working properly by adding <verifyText 
> >> text="xxxx"/> with good/bad values.
> >>
> >> If I add to emailMessageContentFilter save="xxx" or if I change in my 
> >> <config> saveresponse="true" the following exception occurs:
> >> C:\\webtest\commonTasks.webLib.xml:258: The following error occurred 
> >> while executing this line:
> >> C:\\website\build.xml:310: org.dbunit.dataset.NoSuchTableException: 
> >> rotina
> >> ERROR (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - Cannot handle unexpected 
> >> exception in step AntWrapper at  with (description="<unknown>")
> >> C:\\website\webtest\testes\createNewUser.webtest.xml:108: The 
> >> following error occurred while executing this line:
> >> C:\\website\webtest\commonTasks.webLib.xml:258: The following error 
> >> occurred while executing this line:
> >> C:\\website\build.xml:310: org.dbunit.dataset.NoSuchTableException: 
> >> rotina
> >> at 
> >>
> org.apache.tools.ant.ProjectHelper.addLocationToBuildException(ProjectHelper.java:539)
>  
> >>
> >> at 
> >>
> org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.MacroInstance.execute(MacroInstance.java:380) 
> >>
> >> at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275)
> >> at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:364)
> >> at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Sequential.execute(Sequential.java:64)
> >> at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:275)
> >>
> >> 4)
> >> Is there a better way than try to guess the time until a specific 
> >> email arrives? My code right now looks like this and is not very
> useful.
> >>            <emailSetConfig  .../>
> >>            <sleep seconds="@{emailReceiveTime}"/>
> >>            <emailStoreMessageCount ...
> >>
> >> Thanks /MfG
> >>         Stefan 
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