[Windmill-dev] Testing an autocomplete widget

[Bobby Rullo]

Why the long wait? Have you tried just firing off the events rapid  
fire in order?

On Dec 11, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Adam Christian wrote:

> 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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