Re: [Httpunit-develop] cannot read "action" in multi-submit form; but works for multi-button form

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At 02:40 PM 8/29/2001 +0200, Alain RAVET wrote:
>I'm trying to read the action value of a form that contains more than 1 
>submit button. I doesn't work. It would if I could replace
>all the "submit" by "button", but I cannot.
>
>How to reproduce the problem :
>
>   java cod :
>   -----------
>
>     public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
>         WebConversation wc = new WebConversation();
>         WebResponse   resp = wc.getResponse( 
> "http://localhost:8080/jjjynet/spike.html" );
>         String action = resp.getForms()[0].getRequest().getURL().getFile();
>         System.out.println("action = " + action);
>
>     }
>
>   HTML page :
>   -----------
>
>   <HTML>
>   <HEAD><TITLE>spikeTest</TITLE>  </HEAD>
>   <body>
>     <form action="anACtion" method="post">
>       <input type=submit name=aName  value=aValue>
>       <input type=submit name=aName2 value=aValue2>
>     </form>
>   </body>
>   </HTML>
>
>
>
>   Result :
>   -----------
>   This code produces :
>
>com.meterware.httpunit.IllegalUnnamedSubmitButtonException: This form has 
>no unnamed buttons
>         at com.meterware.httpunit.WebForm.getRequest(WebForm.java:233)
>         at com.meterware.httpunit.WebForm.getRequest(WebForm.java:178)
>         at spikes.FormAction.main(FormAction.java:11)

This is correct. The call to Form.getRequest is ambiguous.  You need to say:

>         String action = resp.getForms()[0].getRequest( "aName" 
> ).getURL().getFile();

to specify that the request should involve pressing the first button. It 
appears that the error message is not helpful. Perhaps it should say: "Form 
has multiple buttons (none unnamed), and you did not specify which one to use."

>   BUT :
>   -----------
>
>    It works fine if you replace "submit" by "button" :
>
>    <form action="anAction" method="post">
>       <input type=button name=aName  value=aValue>
>       <input type=button name=aName2 value=aValue2>
>   </form>

It "works" because <input type=button> is not a submit button.