that makes perfect sense to me and if I understand correctly would still allow using options (b..d)
Dierk > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Marc Guillemot > Sent: Donnerstag, 22. Februar 2007 13:47 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Webtest] [dev] Best way to extend WebTest configuration > possibilities > > > Hi, > > currently we have basically 4 kinds of possibilities to configure WebTest: > (a) using one of the existing <config> attributes > (b) using a System property (like webtest.connectioninitializer) > (c) calling a static helper method like XPathHelper.registerGlobalXxxx > (d) using a script step within <webtest> to configure the running test > > WT-270 (http://webtest-community.canoo.com/jira/browse/WT-270) contains > a patch from Thomas Kappen following way (a) to allow to specify the > class name of a custom PageCreator. This way is fully valid but first I > fear that too many configuration options have the same right to belong > to config than PageCreator. Second this requires having the custom class > present in the classpath. > > What about defining a key like "webtest.hotspot.pageCreator" and using > it to look in Project's reference map for a customized entry? (for info: > an Ant Project can contain references to any kind of objects in this > map) WebTest could look at it during configuration and use the page > creator it finds there if any. Major advantage: it would be possible to > define a custom page creator on the fly with for instance a small Groovy > script. This strategy could be used for other extension points. The only > "issue" here concern the documentation. I can imagine adding new xdoclet > tags to generate this documentation automatically and to keep it accurate. > > Any thoughts? > > Marc. > > > _______________________________________________ > WebTest mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest _______________________________________________ WebTest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest
