Problem with _get/_setGlobal and/or string comparison

halluecehn

Hi,

I have some code like this:

_setGlobal("test_language", "de_DE");
var $language = _getGlobal("test_language");

if ($language == "de_DE") { ... } else {...}

and it executes the else case. Why? I would expect the string comparison to be true.

Best regards

Popeye

Try

_set($language, _getGlobal("test_language"));
instead of
var $language = _getGlobal("test_language");

narayan

halluecehn,

Your code should have worked. We will verify it here.

_setGlobal and _getGlobal are no longer required in most cases.

Are you fetching the value "de_DE" from somewhere on the user interface?

Regards,
Narayan

halluecehn

No, I intended to use it as a way to set the language of the user interface of our application that has to be tested. For example, buttons have different labels for differnt languages. So for every language I intend to define a .sah file with variables definitions -- same variable names, different values. Then for every language there is a suite with the same tests except for the first test file, that has only one line that sets the language via _setGlobal. Then in some .sah file that has to be included in every test _getGlobal is called and depending on the value of that global variable, the appropriate language dependant .sah file with variables definitions is included.

so e.g testsuite_de.suite:

de_DE_defs.sah / # meaningless start url
test1.sah url1 
test2.sah url2
...

testsuite_en_us.suite:

en_US_defs.sah /
test1.sah url1
test2.sah url2
...

de_DE_defs.sah:

var $var1 = "german button";
var $var2 = "german label";
...

en_US_defs.sah:

var $var1 = "us button";
var $var2 = "us label";
...

include_for_all_tests.sah

var $test_language = getGlobal("test_language");
if ($test_language == "de_DE")  {
   _include("de_DE_defs.sah");
else {
   _include("en_US"_defs.sah");
}

test1.sah

_include("include_for_all_tests.sah");
// do something with $var1 and $var2

testsuite_de.sah

setGlobal("test_language", "de_DE");

testsuite_en_us.sah

setGlobal("test_language", "en_US")'

Is there another way to do this? Is it possible to give parameters to the test files in the suite file? Or to read some external variables, e.g. environment variables?

Best regards,

narayan

Hi halluecehn,

We will look at how to solve this problem better. Meanwhile use Popeye's suggestion to get global. It works.

Regards,
Narayan

halluecehn

Hi narayan,

Thank you very much for the quick answer! I assume you meen using java.util.Properties as described in topic id 1225.

However, this does not quite solve my problem, as I want to run the same suite in different languages without modifiyng any of the test scripts ever.

But I've came to another solution, the first test is now instead of setting a global variable just copying the language dependant file to a default filename and the subsequential tests are only knowing about this default and including it.

Best regards,