unable to click radiobutton with "near" and the text next to the radio

hoija

Hi!

First: I got Ideas from here: "Unable to select radio buttons." here "Problem with dynamic web page" here "How to find value of radio type with the help of lable ?" and here "How to click button of an attribute value. Dont understand the syntax"

I hava a page with several radiobuttons and checkboxes build with icefaces. The part I will take as example here consists of 3 radiobuttons under eachother in a "vertical line". Next to each radiobutton is a span acting as a label for the radiobutton.

It looks like this with () being a radiobutton:

() Normal
() Cito
() Notfall

The code firebug shows me is:

<div class="box-1">
<h3 id="addh2">
<span id="mFrm:addtext2" class="iceOutTxt">priorität</span>
</h3>
<span>
<input id="mFrm:priorityChecks:_0" type="radio" value="1" onkeypress="Ice.util.radioCheckboxEnter(form,this,event);" onfocus="setFocus(this.id);" onclick=";setFocus('');iceSubmitPartial(form, this, event);" onblur="setFocus('');" name="mFrm:priorityChecks" checked="checked">
<label class="iceSelOneRb" for="mFrm:priorityChecks:_0"></label>
</span>
<span id="mFrm:ot1" class="iceOutTxt">Normal</span>
<div id="mFrm:j_id334" class="icePnlGrp"></div>
<span>
<input id="mFrm:priorityChecks:_1" type="radio" value="2" onkeypress="Ice.util.radioCheckboxEnter(form,this,event);" onfocus="setFocus(this.id);" onclick=";setFocus('');iceSubmitPartial(form, this, event);" onblur="setFocus('');" name="mFrm:priorityChecks">
<label class="iceSelOneRb" for="mFrm:priorityChecks:_1"></label>
</span>
<span id="mFrm:ot2" class="iceOutTxt">Cito</span>
<div id="mFrm:j_id335" class="icePnlGrp"></div>
<span>
<input id="mFrm:priorityChecks:_2" type="radio" value="4" onkeypress="Ice.util.radioCheckboxEnter(form,this,event);" onfocus="setFocus(this.id);" onclick=";setFocus('');iceSubmitPartial(form, this, event);" onblur="setFocus('');" name="mFrm:priorityChecks">
<label class="iceSelOneRb" for="mFrm:priorityChecks:_2"></label>
</span>
<span id="mFrm:ot3" class="iceOutTxt">Notfall</span>
</div>

There are several "boxes" like this on the page.

I got several variants running and clicking, but NONE without any 0, 1 or 2 where 0 is the upper one (Normal), 1 is the middle one (Cito) and 2 is the bottom one where an 0,1,2 can be the automatically given sahi index [number] or the blank number meaning the first, second, third element next to ... Also, I can click by ID and by value "number". I don't want to depend on the radio buttons in that particular order. => I want to be able to check the one "next to Cito", no matter if Cito is the first, second or third one.

Following this example:
browser.link("delete").near(browser.cell("user1")).click();
I expected
browser.radio( "mFrm:priorityChecks" ).near( browser.span("Cito") ).click();
to check the radio button next to Cito, the middle one. But it checks the above one next to "Normal". I read anywhere about near and a table. Does near don't work like this *without* a table?

With
browser.radio( 0 ).near( browser.span("Cito") ).check(); I can select the upper one
browser.radio( 1 ).near( browser.span("Cito") ).check(); I can select the middle one
browser.radio( 2 ).near( browser.span("Cito") ).check(); I can select the bottom one

whereas I expected this behaviour
browser.radio( 0 ).near( browser.span("Normal") ).check(); I can select the upper one
browser.radio( 0 ).near( browser.span("Cito") ).check(); I can select the middle one
browser.radio( 0 ).near( browser.span("Notfall") ).check(); I can select the bottom one

or, similar:
browser.radio( "mFrm:priorityChecks" ).near( browser.span("Normal") ).click();
browser.radio( "mFrm:priorityChecks" ).near( browser.span("Cito") ).click();
browser.radio( "mFrm:priorityChecks" ).near( browser.span("Notfall") ).click();

Some more ideas, but RegEx with / is also not clear to me ...
browser.radio( "/.*priorityChecks.*/" ).near( browser.span("Cito") ).click();// nothing
browser.radio( "/priorityChecks/" ).near( browser.span("Cito") ).click();// nothing

Is there someting I just don't see? A completely different approach? To select the radiobutton next to "Cito" no matter where it stands in that list?

This is on Windows 7 with Firefox 11 (yes, an old one, 13 is constantly crashing like someone else mentioned on the forum here) and sahi (within Twist). The sahi controller from within Twist does not show the sahi version number, but I found this: com.thoughtworks.twist.driver.sahi_3.0.0.12641-3bffc171c71291.

vvdwivedi

Hi hoija,
Please have a look at the browser APIs available with Sahi and try to use _check(checkBoxOrRadioElement) instead of click.

This might work.

Thanks,
Vivek

hoija

Hi vvdwivedi,

thank you for that promising idea, but unfortunately it seems to behave similar to my previous attempts:

1) browser.check( browser.span("Cito") );// nothing
2) browser.check( browser.radio( "mFrm:priorityChecks" ).near( browser.span("Cito") ) );// checks "Normal"
3) browser.check( browser.radio( 0 ).near( browser.span("Cito") ) );// checks "Normal"
4) browser.check( browser.radio( "/mFrm:priorityChecks/" ).near( browser.span("Cito") ) );// checks "Normal"
5) browser.check( browser.radio( "/.*mFrm:priorityChecks.*/" ).near( browser.span("Cito") ) );// checks "Normal"

6) browser.check( browser.radio( "mFrm:priorityChecks[1]" ).near( browser.span("Cito") ) );// checks "Cito"
7) browser.check( browser.radio( "mFrm:priorityChecks[2]" ).near( browser.span("Cito") ) );// checks "Notfall"

8) browser.check( browser.radio( 1 ).near( browser.span("Cito") ) );// checks "Cito"
9) browser.check( browser.radio( 2 ).near( browser.span("Cito") ) );// checks "Notfall"

Still no luck without 0,1,2 relating to first, second, third ...

Especially this one is puzzling to me:
6) browser.check( browser.radio( "mFrm:priorityChecks[1]" ).near( browser.span("Cito") ) );
together with 4), 5) and this one:
browser.radio( "mFrm:priorityChecks" ).near( browser.span("Cito") ).click();

seems to me like the "Sahi API Examples"

Quote:
Let us look at the second textbox, which is near Ruby For Rails:
This is identified as _textbox("q[1]"). This can be a problem, because if a new row is added before Ruby, the index of this textbox would change. To fix this, Sahi uses an _near API. The same textbox can be identified as

_textbox("q", _near(_cell("Ruby for Rails")))

This accessor will not break even if you add another row before Ruby or another column before the textbox.
End Quote

One difference I see is, mine is not a cell / a table. Therefore my thoughts "near" might not be meant to work *without* a real tr/td table?!

Thank you