Re: RE: Repeat step in a Groovy test case

>
> Hi Beat,
>
> maybe this could work:
>
> the repeat step places the counterName-Value in a webtest property, not a
> groovy variable, which can't be accessed using $propertyName.
> Groovy tries to evaluate $propertyName as a groovy variable, which will
> fail.
>
> Try "\${propertyName}" to access the webtest-property(-> Ant).
> But be carefull, the expression "\${propertyName}" is only evaluated inside
> a webtest-step like verfiyXPath. The following won't work:
>
> def varName = "\${webTestProperty}"
>
> The result will exactly be the string, but not the property's value :)
>
> Regards,
> Sandro
>
>
>
>
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>              15.06.2009 00:34                                      Subject
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> I've done some tests (i.e. dozens of trial and error runs)... The following
> Webtest ant script works perfectly:
>
> ---
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE project SYSTEM "../dtd/Project.dtd">
> <project default="test">
> <target name="test">
> <webtest name="Check repeat step">
>  <invoke url="http://localhost/~bkoch/cbt.html"/>
>  <repeat xpath="//input[@type='checkbox']" counterName="currentButton">
>    <verifyCheckbox xpath="$currentButton" checked="false"/>
>  </repeat>
>  <repeat xpath="//input[@type='radio']" counterName="rb">
>    <verifyRadioButton xpath="$rb" checked="false"/>
>  </repeat>
>  <repeat count="3">
>    <testInfo type="Debug" info="Hello world: #{count}" />
>  </repeat>
> </webtest>
> </target>
> </project>
> ---
>
> However, the following Webtest Groovy class can not be executed:
>
> ---
> import com.canoo.webtest.WebtestCase
>
> class SimpleTest extends WebtestCase {
>   void testWebtestOnGoogle() {
>     webtest("Check repeat step") {
>       invoke "http://localhost/~bkoch/cbt.html"
>       repeat (xpath:"//input[@type='checkbox']",
> counterName:"currentButton") {
>         verifyCheckbox xpath:"$currentButton", checked:"false"
>       }
>       repeat (xpath:"//input[@type='radio']", counterName:"rb") {
>         verifyRadioButton xpath:"$rb", checked:"false"
>       }
>       repeat (count:"3") {
>         testInfo type:"Debug", info:"Hello world: #{count}"
>       }
>     }
>   }
> }
> ---
>
> The error is:
> 1) testWebtestOnGoogle(SimpleTest)groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No
> such property: currentButton for class: SimpleTest
> at
> org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.unwrap(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:49)
> at
> org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.PogoGetPropertySite.getProperty(PogoGetPropertySite.java:49)
> at
> org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callGroovyObjectGetProperty(AbstractCallSite.java:240)
> at
> SimpleTest$_testWebtestOnGoogle_closure1_closure2.doCall(repeatTest.groovy:8)
>
> Line 8 is the verifyCheckbox one. If I comment it out, then the error
> appears on the verifyRadioButton line. Strangely enough, the testInfo line
> executes fine. As a consequence, I have tried to use #{currentButton}
> instead of $currentButton on the verifyCheckbox line but then I get the
> following error during execution:
>
>  com.canoo.webtest.engine.StepExecutionException
>
> Stacktrace
>
> : Error processing xpath "#{currentButton}"., Step: VerifyCheckbox at :
> with (taskName="verifyCheckbox")
>
> I believe that the ant script and Groovy class are identical from a
> semantical point of view. Either I'm wrong about this (and I would
> appreciate any pointer to the correct Groovy implementation) or there
> really is a problem with Webtest.
>
> Regards
> Beat
>
>
> PS: This is my test page:
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
> <html>
> <head>
> <title>Checkbox test page</title>
> </head>
> <body>
>  <form name="CBT">
>    <p><input type="checkbox" id="cb1"/></p>
>      <p><input type="checkbox" id="cb2"/></p>
>    <p><input type="checkbox" id="cb3"/></p>
>
>    <p><input type="radio" id="rb1" name="group1"/></p>
>      <p><input type="radio" id="rb2" name="group1"/></p>
>    <p><input type="radio" id="rb3" name="group1"/></p>
>  </form>
> </body>
> </html>
>
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