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

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

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

LE> Thank, Ilya.
LE> I guess that I didn't describe my last question clearly. I didn't mean
LE> to save the output of a test. What I really want is the content that
LE> WebTest gets from the website. I guess it is a pure HTML source code?
LE> Since WebTest can check for the required text with 'text_require', I
LE> guess it should be able to save the return content. 

LE> What I like to do is that I get the return content first, parse it, and
LE> do more test. For example, I may run a simple test to www.yahoo.com and
LE> get the webpage content, and then find all the links to images, and then
LE> run a test for each image.

All HTTP requests and HTTP responses (including content) are available
via Perl API. 

For example to get content of HTTP response in the test #$num

    my $content = $webtest->tests->[$num]->response->content.

If you want to get content of HTTP reposense for current test case in
one of hooks provided by HTTP::WebTest::Plugin::Hooks plugin you can
use shortcut.

    my $content = $webtest->current_response->content

(see http://search.cpan.org/author/ILYAM/HTTP-WebTest-2.01/lib/HTTP/WebTest/Cookbook.pod#Dynamic_Tests for example)

Same shortcut will work if you'll define your additional tests in
your own plugin.

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