Introducing _in, _parentNode, _parentCell, _parentRow and _parentTable

narayan

Folks,

From the nightly unstable release 2009-03-23 (https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=151639&package_id=309861&release_id=670229), a few new features have been added to make life easier while navigating tables and cells.

To access the cell in which a link lies, you can do

_parentCell(_link("inside link"))

To access the parent row, use

_parentRow(_cell("cellId"))

Like wise for parent table

_parentTable(_link("inside link"))

You can pass any contained element in the cell, row or table.

Another useful thing is if you have a hierarchy like this: link -> table1 -> table2 and you wish to access the outer table "table2", you can do
_parentTable(_link("inside link"), 2); The second parameter denotes the level.
_parentTable(_link("inside link"), 2) is equivalent to _parentTable(_parentTable(_link("inside link")));
Same with _parentCell and _parentRow
If you wish to get to a parentNode of a given tagName you can use,
_parentNode(el, tagName, level);
eg. _parentRow(el, 2) == _parentNode(el, "TR", 2);


A cell can now be identified just by the text in it.

_cell("text in cell")

But even more useful is _in.

Suppose you have a table which looks like this

username1  |  link: delete  |  link: edit  |  checkbox: isActive
username2  |  link: delete  |  link: edit  |  checkbox: isActive

To get the second "delete" link, you can do

_link("delete", _in(_parentRow(_cell("username2"))));

Previously you would have had to do _link("delete[1]"), where [1] is dependent on the order of rows

To get the second isActive checkbox, you can do

_checkbox("isActive", _in(_parentRow(_cell("username2"))));

This helps your Sahi scripts be independent of order of rows in the tables.

Similary you can do:
_textbox(identifier, inElement);
_textarea(identifier, inElement);
_password(identifier, inElement);
_checkbox(identifier, inElement);
_radio(identifier, inElement);
_image(identifier, inElement);
_imageSubmitButton(identifier, inElement);
_link(identifier, inElement);
_cell(identifier, inElement);
_spandiv(identifier, inElement);

inElement = _in(element where you wish to look)

Another feature added is identification of images via the image file name.

_image("add.gif")

Please have a look at this build and share your thoughts.

Regards,
Narayan

pankaj.nith

Thats Great Narayan!
Right now I was navigating through my table elements using DOM. The new APIs will indeed make our lives easier
Can I straight away copy these APIs to older sahi version that I am using now?

Thanks and Regards,
Pankaj.