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[Htmlunit-user] how do I handle pop-up windows ?

[Vinay M. <vin...@gm...>]

Hi,
I would want to know of a way to get access to a window that may pop
up when an "anchor" gets clicked. Should I be using WebClient's
getCurrentWindow() ?
Also I noticed that, on a particular page, whenever I clicked on an
anchor that produced a pop up, I ended up with an exception trace
like:

EcmaError: lineNumber=[1] column=[6] lineSource=[return frmSubmit()]
name=[SyntaxError] sourceName=[body.onLoad] message=[invalid return]
errorObject=[SyntaxError: invalid return]
com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.ScriptException: invalid return
	at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.javascript.JavaScriptEngine.execute(JavaScriptEngine.java:264)
	at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage.executeJavaScriptIfPossible(HtmlPage.java:702)
	at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage.executeOneOnLoadHandler(HtmlPage.java:923)
	at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage.executeOnLoadHandlersIfNeeded(HtmlPage.java:903)
	at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage.initialize(HtmlPage.java:155)
	at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.loadWebResponseInto(WebClient.java:576)
	at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.getPage(WebClient.java:536)
	at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.getPage(WebClient.java:454)
	at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient.getPage(WebClient.java:358)
	at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlAnchor.doClickAction(HtmlAnchor.java:109)
	at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.ClickableElement.click(ClickableElement.java:107)

I didnt have any specific mechanism in place to handle the pop-up.
Could this be a reason for the exception to materialise ?

Best Regards
Vinay

Re: [Htmlunit-user] how do I handle pop-up windows ?

[Mike B. <mb...@Ga...>]

Vinay Murthy wrote:
> I would want to know of a way to get access to a window that may pop
> up when an "anchor" gets clicked. Should I be using WebClient's
> getCurrentWindow() ?

The click() method will return the new page that was loaded (or the 
current page if a new page wasn't loaded).  You can ask that page what 
window it is in with getEnclosingWindow().

> Also I noticed that, on a particular page, whenever I clicked on an
> anchor that produced a pop up, I ended up with an exception trace
> like:
 >
 > EcmaError: lineNumber=[1] column=[6] lineSource=[return frmSubmit()]
 > name=[SyntaxError] sourceName=[body.onLoad] message=[invalid return]
 > errorObject=[SyntaxError: invalid return]
 > com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.ScriptException: invalid return

The problem is in the onload handler of the new page that has just been 
loaded.  What does frmSubmit() return?

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