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[Baubak G. <Wo...@Ga...>]

Hi There,
 
This is not a bug report, but more a small complaint about
syntax and its use.
 
I am having a problem with the logic of the method:
com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlElement.hasHtmlElementWithId(String)
 
It’s logic is :
Returns true if there is an element in this element's page with the specified ID.
 
Now I want to test it to see if a row with a given id is
present in the given table:
 
<tableid="t3">
              <tr>
             
       <td>c</td>
                     <td>d</td>
                     <td>e</td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                     <td>1</td>
                     <td>2</td>
                     <td></td>
                     <td>4</td>
              </tr>
              <tr>
                     <td>+</td>
                     
              </tr>
       </table>
       
       <tableid="t4">
              <trid="row1">
                     <td>c</td>
                     <td>d</td>
                     <td>e</td>
              </tr>
              <trid="row2">
                     <td>1</td>
                     <td>2</td>
                     <td></td>
                     <td>4</td>
              </tr>
              <trid="row3">
                     <td>+</td>
                     
              </tr>
 
In my case I create an HtmlTable object with the table with
the id “t4”. Here is my test:
 
@Test
       publicvoidtestGetLastCellById_withoutId() throwsFailingHttpStatusCodeException,
                    
IOException {
 
             
HtmlTable l_currentTable = (HtmlTable) ((HtmlPage) webClient.getPage(getClass().getResource(
                           "/testExamples/HTMLTableTest.html"))).getElementById("t3");
 
              assertEquals("e", DBExelTestTools.getLastCell(l_currentTable, "row1").getTextContent());
       }
 
My goal is that if the “id” is not present in the table I
return the last cell of the first row. Here is the code of DBExelTestTools.getLastCell.
I look for an id = “row1” in a table with the id “t3”that does not have that
id.
 
/**
      
 * This method returns the last cell in the given row in the given table,
      
 * given the id of the row. If not rows have id's it is the very first row
      
 * that is returned
      
 * 
      
 * @paramin_table
      
 * @paramin_id
      
 * @return
      
 */
       publicstaticHtmlTableCell
getLastCell(HtmlTable in_table, String in_id) {
              if(in_table.hasHtmlElementWithId(in_id)) {
                    
HtmlTableRow l_tableRow = in_table.getRowById(in_id);
                     returnl_tableRow.getCell(l_tableRow.getCells().size() - 1);
             
} else{
                     returngetLastCell(in_table,
0);
             
}
       }
 
What happens is that in the condition “if(in_table.hasHtmlElementWithId(in_id))” is “true” because there is a row in
another table that contains that id. Although it is according to the
specification, it does not seem very intuitive.
 
I could solve this with a try/catch for ElementNotFound, but that
is not considered as good practice…
 
Best regards
 
Baubak Gandomi
 
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