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Selenium WebDriver’s JavascriptExecutor
will wrap all JavaScript and evaluate it as an anonymous expression. Therefore, the “return” keyword must be used when executing JavaScript within the “Target” field in an ASM scenario. For example, the command browserbot.getCurrentWindow().document.title
in Selenium becomes return document.title;
in an ASM Scenario.
If your Selenium IDE looks like the following:
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Command
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Target
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Value
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assertEval
for the following commands:
GotoIf
GetEval
StoreEval
StoreExpression
The following commands do not require the use of “return”:
RunScript
RunScriptAndWait
For example, if you are trying to determine whether the result of the expression ${stored_var} > 0
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true
Add a “return” keyword to the target so it looks like is true
, use the following code:
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The following commands result in javascript evaluation or expect a javascript snippet as an argument. Therefore, they also require the use of “return”:
GotoIf
RunScript
RunScriptAndWait
GetEval
StoreEval
StoreExpression
screenshot (supplemental text provided) shows an example in which JavaScript is being used to execute another check upon completion of the current scenario. Basically, the check kicks off another check when it’s finished.
Within the scenario:
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Run execution log:
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Javascript snippet:
Code Block |
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var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open('POST', 'https://api-asm.apica.io/v3/checks/3393731/job?auth_ticket=${auth_ticket}', true);
xhr.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/json;charset=UTF-8');
xhr.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (xhr.readyState === 4) {
if (xhr.status === 200) {
var response = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText);
console.log('Success:', response);
} else {
console.error('Error:', xhr.statusText);
}
}
};
xhr.send();
return "check ID 3393731 has been executed!" |
The “runScript” or “runScriptAndWait” commands could also be used with the above Javascript if the “return” statement is omitted.
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Javascript comments are NOT allowed in the body of a Javascript snippet! |
Type & sendKeys
Even though the type
command works in most cases, Apica strongly recommends using sendKeys
instead of type
. The type
command edits the HTML format of the code, while the sendKeys
command attempts to simulate actual typing and is therefore able to trigger javascript code in fields.
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