Re: [Http-webtest-general] Questions from a beginner

[Ilya M. <il...@ip...>]

>>>>> "LE" == Li, Eddie <Edd...@bg...> writes:

LE> Thanks a lot for your reply, Ilya.

LE> I'm just wondering if there is a way to save the return page of a
LE> "wt" test, so that I can write a script to parse the saved return
LE> page and then run more wt tests accordingly.

If you use Perl API instead of just running wtscript with wt program
you can use 'output_ref' and/or 'fh_out' parameters:

use HTTP::WebTest;

my $output = '';
my $webtest = HTTP::WebTest->new;
$webtest->run_wtscript('script.wt',
                       { output_ref => \$output });

In this case all output will be "redirected" into scalar variable
$output.

On the other hand I would not parse test output. It is easier to use
Perl API to find results of tests.

$webtest->tests->[$num]->results

returns test results for test #$num. See perldoc HTTP::WebTest::API
and HTTP::WebTest::Test for details.

Another option (if you just want to add more checks for each test) is
either using test parameter on_response from
HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::Hooks plugin (see examples in
HTTP::WebTest::Cookbook) or even writtin a plugin. Writting new plugin
is not hard - see perldoc HTTP::WebTest::Plugins and sources of
existing plugins.

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