File Release Notes and Changelog
Release Name: 1.6
Notes:
Additions:
Content and Parsing
1. rfe #766768: getText() methods now translate <br> tags as newlines.
2. rfe #901172: content-types "text/xhtml" and "application/xhtml+xml" are now recognized as valid HTML
3. rfe #974791: WebForm now supports submitNoButton to submit a form without any of its buttons. This permits
testing of server response to a Javascript-style submit without using JavaScript.
4. rfe #986876: The WebClient.addCookie method has been deprecated, since its behavior is actually a bit confusing
and replaced with "putCookie" allowing subsequent the replacement of a cookie value defined by a previous
call to "putCookie."
5. patch #1026566 The Cookie class now implements hashCode properly.
6. patch #879193: The name of a select box may now be treated as an array of options.
7. patch #879193: Select now behaves as a multiselect listbox if it has size > 1 or if multiple is set and the size is not set to 1.
8. Patch #795698: HTMLElement now supports a getAttribute method to return the value of any named attribute.
9. WebResponse and TableCell now support getElementsWithAttribute to return all contained HTML elements
with a specified attribute.
10. setCheckbox() and toggleCheckbox() have now been expanded to select one of a group of checkboxes by specifying
its name.
11. WebForm now supports the newUnvalidatedRequest method, which should be used in preference to
HttpUnitOptions.setParametersValidated( false ). This creates a web request copied from the form
but not tied to it, so that parameters can be set without validation.
12. Enhanced http logging to show target server, request header line, and received URL
13. HTMLElement now supports a getText() method to return the text contents of any element
14. WebResponse now supports getTextBlocks and getFirstMatchingTextBlock to retrieve headers and paragraphs from a page.
15. HttpUnit now catches an attempt to load an included script from a page included with "getResource" rather than
"getResponse."
16. Click positions on image buttons may now be specified using one of:
form.submit( button, x, y )
button.click( x, y )
17. Added preliminary support for lists
18. Added convenience method setParameter( String, File ) to simplify file uploading
19. A username and password may now be specified when accessing a proxy server.
JavaScript
20. Added support for javascript Input.tabindex and Text.maxlength properties (read-only)
21. Added support for javascript HTMLElement.style property
ServletUnit
22. Patch #890995 - Implemented ServletUnitHttpResponse.containsHeader
23. Patch #890936 - Added ServletContextListener support
24. Added HttpSessionListener support
25. Added support for ServletContextAttributeListener and HttpSessionAttributeListener
26. Added support for filters
27. rfe #909922: ServletUnit now supports HttpServletRequest.getHeaders
28. patch #915296: Local copies of the 2.2 and 2.3 web.xml dtds are now consulted if specified,
rather than connecting to the Sun website.
29. ServletRunner now takes a reference to a web.xml as a File object in its constructor.
30. ServletRunner and ServletUnitClient now support a getSession() method to return the HTTP session to be used
by the next request or modified by the last request.
31. ServletUnit now implements HttpSession.getServletContext().
PseudoServer
32. PseudoServer now pools its ServerSocket's in order to be more gracious regarding system resources. Pooling can
be controlled via the properties: socketReleaseWaitTime and waitThreshhold.
33. PseudoServer can now received chunked requests, and will not send a "Content-Length" header if a
"Transfer-Encoding: chunked" has been defined.
34. PseudoServer now accepts a full http URL to permit testing of interaction with proxy servers.
Problems fixed:
Documentation
1. bug #804585: the javascript documentation referred to the old location of the
getNextAlert and popNextAlert methods
2. bug #804559: unimplemented links have been removed from the incomplete user manual.
3. A number of typos in the tutorial have been corrected
Content and Parsing
4. bug #978770 Clicking on a button outside of a form is now supported
5. bug #838947 Document.getElementById now returns null if no such element exists
6. bug #957882: URL path elements containing leading '.' were being stripped of those periods.
7. bug #830856: WebLink URLs broken across lines are now handled correctly
8. bug #805921: WebForm.selectImageButtonPosition was misleadingly public and should not have been used.
It has been made package-private, and new means are provided to submit positional image buttons (see additions).
9. bug #982097: http urls being used as request parameters were being mangled
10. bug #803041: HTML entity & now recognized in refresh URL tag
11. bug #803095: Absolute URLs now supported in refresh URL tag
12. bug #986397: Subframe included fragments in their source attributes now ignore those fragments when generating requests.
13. bug #990914: WebFrame scriptables are now accessible by getElementById
14. patch #995853: decode link parameters based on page character set
15. When a form has no action specified and its URL contains parameters whose names match those of parameters
in the form, the form values are used instead.
16. Slashes in URL parameters were being misinterpeted as navigation
Request handling
17. The HeadMethodWebRequest was actually sending the GET method, as was any HeaderOnlyWebRequest.
18. bug #964940 The Referer header was not being sent again if the original request was redirected
19. bug #974380 When using a DNS listener, host header no longer includes ':-1' if the port is not specified
20. bug #1032440: An explanatory exception is now thrown on an attempt to use a mailto: URL in a form submission
Cookie handling
21. bug #873169 - Cookie headers were generated with no space after the semicolon (unlike IE, Netscape, and Mozilla)
22. Cookie domains without leading dots are now accepted, as per RFC 2965.
23. bug #1025968: Cookies with max-age attribute will now expire (max-age=0 is treated as immediate expiration)
Frame handling
24. bug #737167: Nested frame names are now as specified, previous included names of parent frames.
25. Return from a request that wrote to a new frame is now the result of that request, was the original page.
26. Return from a request specifying an unknown frame now opens a new window; previously created a subframe
in the requesting window.
27. bug #1029139: infinite recursion in frameset page when a frame has src="#"
JavaScript
28. A frameset 'onload' event is now invoked after all of its subframes have been loaded
29. HttpUnit no longer complains about not being able to find the Rhino jar (js.jar) if scripting is disabled
before any pages are read.
30. bug #823433: document.cookie now defaults to the empty string, like IE and Mozilla, rather than null
31. Using JavaScript to write into an empty frame could change all empty frames to the same value
32. Window.open() using an empty name was replacing the main window rather than creating a new one.
33. Patch #812709: Support JavaScript changing "disabled" attribute on Buttons
34. bug #861866: Support JavaScript changing "disabled" attribute on form controls
35. Forms defined after a <script> section which accessed document.forms would not be found if document.forms
was also accessed in a subsequent <script> section after the new form definition.
36. bug #974675 Javascript function Window.open did not honor "_self" tag for window name.
37. bug #960307 meta tags within <noscript> tags were not being ignored when scripting was disabled
38. bug #959918: Javascript setting of numeric values included trailing zeros after the decimal point.
39. bug #1013045: Form, Link, and Image id tags are now recognizable from JavaScript where a name tag would be
ServletUnit
40. ServletUnit now applies character encoding in interpreting post parameters
41. Patch #873911: ServletContext.getMimeType is supported
42. Patch #873914: HttpSession.setAttribute( name, null ) now properly removes the named attribute
43. bug #872129: Cookie header set on a web request was ignored in servletunit
44. HttpServletRequest.getCookies() method was only returning the first cookie defined in the request
45. bug #1034067: ServletConfig.getServletName now returns the name specified in web.xml for registered servlets.
PseudoServer
46. PseudoServer now supports any method handled by a PseudoServlet. Previously, it only handled GET, POST, and PUT.
It is simply necessary to override the getResponse method to make this work.
47. PseudoServer would hang when sent a very long request.
Notes:
1. Upgraded NekoHTML to 0.9.1
2. Upgraded Xerces to 2.4.0
3. Upgraded Rhino to 1.5R4.1
Changes:
