RE: [Htmlunit-user] htmlunit and sessions

[Dan L. <dl...@ca...>]

Rares,

HtmlUnit is a tool for simulating a browser and the API allows you to
simulate user actions.  As such, you have access to the Web/Client tier, not
the business tier.  Once the browser reads the page, there is no way to
determine the values of an object kept in session.  It is possible to
simulate this behavior by having the page print the values of the session
objects and then doing a compare.  Something like:

(if your page is jsp)

    <span id='sessionObjectIdValue'><%= session.getAttribute("objectId")
%></span>
    <form name="myform"><input type="text" name="objectId"></form>


then you could use the HtmlUnit API to get the asText() value of the element
with Id = 'sessionObjectIdValue' and get the asText() value of the input
object in the form by name, and do a compare on them.  if you dont want the
value to appear in the page, you could use a hidden field or something
similar and do the compare on that.

There are other similar ways to acheive what you are looking for, but
accessing session objects is not possible by the time the data reaches
HtmlUnit.

dan

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  Subject: [Htmlunit-user] htmlunit and sessions



  Hello,

  I'm using HtmlUnit for a couple of days to create tests for a web app.
  To test some of the pages I need to compare the form values with the
values of some objects kept in session.

  I wasn't able to get access to the session, is it possible? How can I do
that?

  Thank you