[Windmill-dev] Testing an autocomplete widget

[Adam Christian]

Greetings,

So at a first glance it looks like your JavaScript is being triggered  
by onkeypress, and since our type function simply sets the value via  
the DOM the onkeypress isn't being triggered.

I am going to attempt writing an addition to our controller api that  
you can use instead of type, that will take a string and simulate  
pressing those keys with 1/3 second delays between to see if I can  
trigger your auto complete functionality.

After that, selecting your target entry from the list should work out  
of the box as long as it is a standard HTML drop down, if not we can  
deal with that accordingly.

I will send out another response once I get a chance to work on this  
hopefully this afternoon/evening.

Thanks for checking out the project, and your patience.

Adam Christian

On Dec 11, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Robert Leftwich wrote:

> I'm evaluating Windmill for testing a largish web app, but  
> unfortunately
> I'm failing at the first hurdle. We use autocomplete from the YUI
> library fairly extensively and I was wanting to test an instance of  
> it,
> but it seems that Windmill's 'type' method does not trigger the  
> widget.
> To simplify things I tried to test one of the examples on the YUI  
> site -
> http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/autocomplete/ac_ysearch_json_clean.html
> - but the autocomplete list of possible search queries never appears.
> Following is the simplest test I recorded:
>
> {"params": {"id": "ysearchinput"}, "method": "click"}
> {"params": {"text": "windmill", "id": "ysearchinput"}, "method":  
> "type"}
>
> (I had other methods after the 'type' but they require the search  
> query
> list to be populated).
>
> I've tried both the subversion and released versions of Windmill w/o
> success.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this issue?
>
> Robert
>
> PS IIRC the last time I tried Selenium (which was some months ago) it
> had a similar problem.
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