[Htmlunit-user] Navigation

[Karl <ka...@we...>]

Hi everyone.

I've recently built a web navigation tool that sits on top of htmlunit to make 
the dom navigation a bit easier.

With it you can chain navigations together to get to the element you are 
looking for quickly, or to check if something exists.

For example:

    WebNavigator nav = new WebNavigator();
    nav.gotoUrl(someUrl);
    // do a deep search from the body's child elements onward, for an
    // element that has id "randomLink" and attempt to activate it.
    // This assumes that the element can be activated (i.e. an anchor or
    // button).
    nav.bodyChildren().deep().id("randomLink").activate();

Another navigation:

    // Get the div elements that are directly below the body tag, find the
    // one with id "section1", get the form elements from its children,
    // find the one that has id "formA", then get the first input element
    // underneath it and set it to "10".
    nav.bodyChildren().div().id("section1").children().form().id("formA").children().input().setValue(10);

Using regular expressions:

    // Do a deep search for any element on the page that is an anchor,
    // then narrow down the search to an anchor that has viewable text
    // containing "random" at any point, and tell me if it exists
    nav.page().deep().a().pattern().text(".*random.*").exists();


Anyway I've set up a sourceforge project for it at 
http://navigation.sourceforge.net

Have a look if you think it might be useful.