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• jonyxy777 Members

  May 2013 edited May 2013

  Hi and thanks alot for the great help Wormi. I hope you don't mind my many further questions as I'm new to Sahi.
  
  Q1) If it's sorted according to transaction ID so that a new transaction is always placed at the end, is the following the way to go about doing it? Get the cell number of the trans. ID of the first row, store it in $cellIndexNewTrans, and then loop the following three actions: add the offset (no. of other attributes of each trans. in the row) to $cellIndexNewTrans, check the text content of the cell with that number to see if it is a trans. ID, and exit loop if it's not. Then the no. of the cell of the trans. ID of the new transaction would be '$cellIndexNewTrans - no. of other attributes'.
  
  Q2) var $els = _collect (”_link”, “/group 1/”, _in(_div(“div1”))); (gotten from Sahi API)
  May I know what "/group 1/" means? How would I use this method to collect all the transaction ID cells of the transaction records in a table?
  
  Q3) Why I need the alternate accessor:
  When I create a new currency, I want to check that a new record (row) is created in the currency listing. Since in this case the currency short and long names are unique and are input in the "make new currency page", I could store them in global variables and use them to identify the new row in the currency listing. However, the accrual method attribute, which is in the adjacent right cell of the "currencyLong" cell, is not unique. So I tried to use the below third assertion to check if the right accrual method is reflected. But it does not work (Btw, each attribute value is enclosed in a span tag which is in turn enclosed in a cell tag). So now I want to use the cell ID of "_cell($currencyLong)" and add 1 to it to get the id of the accrualMethod cell.
  
  _assertExists(_cell($currency));
  _assertExists(_cell($currencyLong));
  _assertContainsText($accrMeth, _getText(_rightOf(_cell($currencyLong))));
  
  Q4) Narayan says that Sahi automatically waits if the server response time is not too long and always waits for Ajax requests. In my web app, some values are entered and a button is clicked to calculate interest. The same page is reloaded to reflect the new value (not Ajax). Since it's only a matter of seconds, there's no issue. However, how long should the response take before it becomes an issue?
• globalworming Moderators

  May 2013 edited May 2013

  Q1) Yes you can increment $cellIndex and access an element by _element($cellindex + "offset") but regular expressions and the collect API may be better.
  
  Q2)

  // _collect([ElementType], [RegularExpression], _in([element])) 
  var $transactions = _collect (”_row”, “/./”, _in(_table("transactionTable"));
  //pseudocode
  for $transaction in $transactions
    cellIndex = transaction.cell(0).id
  

  
  Q3) The code above could help here as well. Just collect the cells in the table and loop through the cells until cell = _cell($currency) and use the following cell for your assertions. Alternatively you could do something like _cell($currency).parentElement.children($X) where $X should not change or _cell(1, _near(_cell($currency)))
  
  Q4) The time can be set in your sahi.properties

  #Number of cycles Sahi will wait for the page to load before it proceeds with execution
  #Time spent is (script.max_cycles_for_page_load x script.time_between_steps) milliseconds
  script.max_cycles_for_page_load=1200
  

  
  Regards
  Wormi