#135 awaiting-patch
tf

fill_in escapes name locators in selenium mode

Reported by tf | January 19th, 2009 @ 07:08 PM | in 0.5

At the moment SeleniumSession#fill_in escapes the field_identifier:


def fill_in(field_identifier, options)
  locator = "webrat=#{Regexp.escape(field_identifier)}"
  selenium.wait_for_element locator, 5
  selenium.type(locator, "#{options[:with]}")
end

The webrat location strategy tries the id, name and label location strategy. But the name location strategy does not expect a regular expression. Thus common input names like 'post[title]' are turned into 'post\[title\]' and are not recognized.

The attached patch is incomplete because it removes Regexp.escape only at this one position, even though there are other places in the file where the same problem will come up. It is meant as a hint for people running into issues with this behaviour.

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  • Bryan Helmkamp

    Bryan Helmkamp February 9th, 2009 @ 12:20 AM

    • Milestone set to 0.5

    Hey tf,

    Thanks for the report. Our test coverage for Selenium support is very bad at the moment, so we're going to take some time to get that in place, and then we'll be tackling this issue, hopefully by 0.5

    Cheers,

    -Bryan

  • gaffo

    gaffo May 7th, 2009 @ 03:16 PM

    • State changed from “new” to “awaiting-patch”

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