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Asserting Special Characters
prasanthi
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I am using sahi web tool for testing our application. I am finding difficulty in asserting special characters (like euro symbol).
For example ::
_assertExists(_cell("€144.00"));
_assertEqual("\u20ac144.00", _getText(_cell("€144.00")));
_assertContainsText("\u20ac144.00", _cell("€144.00"));
this assertion fails
For example ::
_assertExists(_cell("€144.00"));
_assertEqual("\u20ac144.00", _getText(_cell("€144.00")));
_assertContainsText("\u20ac144.00", _cell("€144.00"));
this assertion fails
Comments
€144.00 will have to be specified as \u20ac144.00 to Sahi. (Sahi uses \u encoding for non-ascii characters)
Did you generate that assertion via Sahi or did you copy paste the Euro in your script?
When I recorded for Euro, this is what I got
_assertExists(_cell("\u20ac144.00"));
_assertEqual("\u20ac144.00", _getText(_cell("\u20ac144.00")));
_assertContainsText("\u20ac144.00", _cell("\u20ac144.00"));
This was on Firefox and IE.
Regards,
Narayan
_assertExists(_cell("€144.00")); is because the cell name is like that.
Sahi uses the "\u" encriptying that why we can see the "\u" instead of euro character in the next 2 lines
_assertEqual("\u20ac144.00", _getText(_cell("€144.00")));
_assertContainsText("\u20ac144.00", _cell("€144.00"));
But on clicking the "Test" button it is saying "Syntax error ; missing".
How can we assert the non ascii characters?..
To make your script work, just replace Euro with \u20ac in your script.
Regards,
Narayan