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The variable can not be parsed in **_setValue** API ????
gyang
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If the script is as below, it returns success info:
<browser>
function getEmailField(){
return _textbox("q");
}
</browser>
_setValue(getEmailField(), "123");
_click(_submit("Google Search"));
But if i modify it to as below, it fail:
<browser>
function getEmailField(){
return _textbox("q");
}
</browser>
var $a=getEmailField();
_setValue($a, "123");
_click(_submit("Google Search"));
I just change **getEmailField()** to be a variable($a).The failure puzzles me.
Please give some explication, thanks.
<browser>
function getEmailField(){
return _textbox("q");
}
</browser>
_setValue(getEmailField(), "123");
_click(_submit("Google Search"));
But if i modify it to as below, it fail:
<browser>
function getEmailField(){
return _textbox("q");
}
</browser>
var $a=getEmailField();
_setValue($a, "123");
_click(_submit("Google Search"));
I just change **getEmailField()** to be a variable($a).The failure puzzles me.
Please give some explication, thanks.
Comments
Try using
_set($a, getEmailField());
instead of
var $a=getEmailField();
Regards,
Pankaj.
I change my script as what you suggest, but it still returns error(another error).The error info given in log is **InternalError: too much recursion**
I check the **Parsed Script **, and found the **$a = _sahi.getServerVar('$a');** there. I don't know why.
Please give some more tips,thanks.
Gyang.
The Sahi script executes in the proxy. When you do var $a=getEmailField(); you are trying to set something which is on the browser to a variable in the proxy. This cannot happen. In case of _setValue(getEmailField(), "123");, Sahi's _setValue API is designed such that the whole line is sent to the browser and executed there. So that works.
_set(variableOnProxy, entityOnBrowser) works by serializing the entityOnBrowser into a JSON object and sending it to the proxy to be set to variableOnProxy. You should primarily do this to set individual properties of an object not the whole object. You will not be able to execute any actions on the variableOnProxy because it is a serialized object copy and not the real browser object.
The recursion happened because html elements have parents and then childNodes which point to the element itself, and during serialization this goes into a loop.
Hope that makes sense.
Regards,
Narayan
The meaning is clear enough, thanks very much.
to pankaj,
Thank you, too.
It was very helpful !!