#39 Access to form elements by ID

[Ivan Codarin]

Dear All,
I use a framework that generates all the form included
input types of any kind.... it gives to all form
elements proprietary names that I cannot discover at
runtime.
So is very difficult to use jwebunit to test this kind
of forms.

But I can use the id attribute for every form element,
button, submit... so now I'm asking you if I can access
(set, get the form values) using the ID...

Now I have a code snipped like this:

private String getNameByID(String ID,WebResponse resp)
{
String result=null;
HTMLElement testo;
try {
testo=resp.getElementWithID("firstname");
result=testo.getName();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println("exception...to debug...");
}

        return result;

    \}

I pass tho this method the "ID" and the httpunid
webresponse object to get the "name" of a form element...

I don't think this is an "optimal" solution....

Could you extend jwebunit to get this feature available?

Many thanks
Ivan

[Jim Weaver]

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Is this tapestry?

If so, it seems like I remember someone posting or telling
me about a way around that problem (fixing form element
names to specific values).

[Ivan Codarin]

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I use dbforms, yet another mvc framework.
I have to access to elements by id because this frameworks
writes form.elements with its own names.

thanks
ivan

[Jevon Wright]

This artifact has been marked as a duplicate of artifact 1653557 with reason:
JWebUnit now has getElementById(id) method.\