#145 ✓resolved
Chris Flipse

handle multiselects

Reported by Chris Flipse | January 24th, 2009 @ 06:26 PM

(I might just be blind and not seeing this ...)

I have a couple of forms with multiselect fields, and I would like to not have to drop down to constructing the post myself in order to test those forms with multiple values.

<label for=toppings>Toppings</label>
<select multiple=multiple name=toppings>
  <option>Pepperoni</option>
  <option>Sausage</option>
  <option>Ham</option>
  <option>Pineapple</option>
  ....
</select>

I'm kinda fine with putting everything into an array for the multiselect, although that's probably not going to play terribly well with Cucumber, long term

  select ["Ham", "Pineapple"], :from => 'toppings'

maybe a different method is called for (it's different enough in the browser ...)

  multiselect "Ham", :from => "topping"
  multiselect "Pineapple", :from => "toppings"

I know multiselects aren't exactly the best UI elements, but they're in the forms I'm trying to get under test, and I'd like to be able to test them without resorting #post and #put ...

Comments and changes to this ticket

  • Mathias Meyer

    Mathias Meyer April 23rd, 2009 @ 02:46 PM

    I needed this too, so I implemented a new method "select_multiple". I tried extending the existing code for handling selects, but the handling was just too different. So I added a method to specify them like so:

    
    select_multiple ["Ham", "Pineapple"], :from => "toppings"
    

    The patches are in this branch

    I haven't added support for regexps yet, simply because I wasn't sure how to handle it. A single regexp could mean it should match all the options that match the regexp, and an array could mean it should only match one option, but it could also mean match all options with that regexp. I'd be happy to implement it, but I'm not yet in the clear about the API.

    Let me know what you think.

  • Mathias Meyer

    Mathias Meyer April 23rd, 2009 @ 04:51 PM

    • Tag changed from featurerequest to featurerequest, patch
  • gaffo

    gaffo May 7th, 2009 @ 07:06 PM

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

    Needs to be verified but it's all just test changes. Might need to be broken up.

  • Mathias Meyer

    Mathias Meyer June 4th, 2009 @ 04:19 AM

    • Assigned user set to “gaffo”

    Has this a chance of getting merged into the webrat master? It's not just a couple of test changes, I did those after real-life testing the patch, so it's a bigger change in all. Should I rebase it against the current master to make sure it'll be a clean merge?

  • gaffo

    gaffo June 4th, 2009 @ 01:55 PM

    • State changed from “awaiting-merge” to “open”

    Mathias,
    There are few things that I can think of:

    1) If the API is good / consistent, and which one to use.
    2) Making sure that it works in webrat mode
    3) Making sure that you can do the same thing in selenium.
    4) Keeping the patch applyable

    #1 needs some discussion and thought. I'd try and get brynary involved in that one either by asking him on the irc channel or mailing the list. #2 you seem to have #3 is pretty easy to do by adding some tests to spec/integration/rails and then running both modes, and it's a very nice to have. #4 is just nice because it allows anyone to more easily try it out.

    Thanks for the work. The big issue is how the API should look because we don't want to deprecate it later (it's a pain).

  • Daniel Morrison

    Daniel Morrison July 15th, 2009 @ 01:56 PM

    I updated the multiple select handling that Mathias wrote and its available in Collective Idea's multiselect branch.

    I fixed bugs with default_value and added tests.

  • Bryan Helmkamp

    Bryan Helmkamp September 7th, 2009 @ 01:09 PM

    (from [a8d0cebde3880b98444c2c53cf7952d31400826b]) Various improvements, refinements, and bugfixes for select field usage.

    Multiple select boxes are now handled a lot better.
    * You can now select more than one field (where as previously, the last one select would override previous selections) * You can now unselect a value. It works like select, takes the same params, but removes the selection value

    Issues regarding ampersands in values have been resolved.
    * Values are now unescaped when the to_param method is run on elements, to make assertions less complicated * Locating an option with ampersand values now works as expected (it will check for both escaped and unescaped occurrences)

    Bunch of new specs and 3 broken pending ones have now been fixed. [#145 status:resolved]
    http://github.com/brynary/webrat/commit/a8d0cebde3880b98444c2c53cf7...

  • Bryan Helmkamp

    Bryan Helmkamp September 7th, 2009 @ 01:15 PM

    • State changed from “open” to “resolved”

    Hey Kieran,

    Thanks for the patch. It's merged into master now.

    I made one minor behavioral change... Instead of matching against either the HTML or text version of select options, I've limited it to checking just the text version.

    I'd like for all of Webrat to work this way, because I think it's the right level of abstraction, and consistent with how the behavior is described from a black box perspective. Currently, it's inconsistent across Webrat, and I'll keep working to get that straightened up.

    Cheers,

    -Bryan

  • Bryan Helmkamp

    Bryan Helmkamp September 7th, 2009 @ 06:03 PM

    Yes, the next major (0.6) release won't be for a while.

    There are a lot of things either in master or that I'm considering for master that are significant or non-backward compatible changes, and I want to make sure the upgrade is as smooth as possible.

    Cheers,

    -Bryan

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