[Http-webtest-general] Re: Passing optional parameters

[William M. <wi...@kn...>]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 12:49:50PM +0400, Ilya Martynov wrote:
> >>>>> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 14:59:46 -0400, William McKee <wi...@kn...> said:
> 
> WM> Hi list,
> WM> I have been using the following code to set my URL in each of my
> WM> wtscript files:
> 
> WM> 	on_start {
> WM> 		URL = http://www.yahoo.com
>               ^^^^^^
> 
> Typo? It should $URL.

Yeah, there were several typos in that example. I was going by memory
(usu. a bad thing <g>). The working code looks like:

	on_start = {
		$URL = 'http://www.yahoo.com'
	}


> User error :) Test parameters are not visible as perl variables in a
> test.  They are different things.

Figures! Can you give me more explanation of what can be passed in as an
optional parameter. The docs don't define it very clearly.


> But you can do something like
> 
> $MY::URL = 'http://www.yahoo.com';
> $webtest->run_wtscript($file);
> 
> and in your tests use
> 
> url = "$MY::URL/purchase.cgi"

Thanks for the code but it did not work for me. I'm using WebTest v2.03.
Does this example only work for 2.04?


> I'll consider adding a feature which would make passing Perl variables
> to tests easier. Something like
> 
> $webtest->run_wtscript($file, { perl_vars =< {URL => $URL}});

That would be a nice feature for me, but I'd be happy with a usable
workaround as well.


Thanks,
William

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