I used AJAX to call an action and pass parameters, the AJAX call occurs from xsl page and its as follows:
xmlHttp.open("GET","examcont?action=AJAX_SectionsBySessionId&sessionId="+sessionId,true);
I decided to put the amp; after & as xsl raises this error when I removed it:
The reference to entity "sessionId" must end with the ';' delimiter
the problem is that the action is unable to read the parameter sessionId however I tried the same action URL but without the amp; and the action reads the parameter successfully
The problem seems to be that the & represents & in the style sheet but gets expanded/escaped to & again during output (because it is HTML/XML). You may try to use the following in XSL to avoid escaping:
xmlHttp.open("GET","examcont?action=AJAX_SectionsBySessionId<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">&</xsl:text>sessionId="+sessionId,true);
However, note that - if you happen to let your XSL run in the browser - this does not work (although it is correct XSL and it should) on Firefox according to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98168.
As portable alternative, you can use the following which avoids mentioning & by inserting it at runtime with what you might call "Javascript-escaping":
xmlHttp.open("GET","examcont?action=AJAX_SectionsBySessionId"+String.fromCharCode(38)+"sessionId="+sessionId,true);
Also have a look at similar question with deeper discussion and other options using a html entity in xslt (e.g. )
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First of all I'm very happy with Rythm! Excellent work for something that is free.
Recently I have begun internationalization of my templates with Rythm and some things seem more cumbersome than needed. I'm wondering if there is any better way of doing what I'm trying to do.
1. Chain tag onto #i18n()
This does not work:
#i18n("about.text").nl2br()
#i18n("about.text").mytransformer()
The workaround for this is:
#assign(newvar){#i18n("about.text")}
#newvar.nl2br()
This works but is is not pretty.
2. #i18n() escaped in javascript
If I have a section
<script>
var s = '#description';
</script>
then Rythm will nicely escape any ' or " in that description. However when I use:
<script>
var s = '#i18n("description")';
</script>
escaping is not done. I also tried doing:
var s = '#i18n("description").escape("js")';
and
var s = '#escapeJS(){#i18n("description")}';
but both do not work (see above). What does work again is using
#assign(desc){#i18n("description")}
...
var s = '#desc';
3. Use of tag inside #i18n() as argument
Sometimes I need a link inside a translated string like so:
about.text=See my profile here {1}
I would like to use this in the template as follows:
#i18n("about.txt",#genlink("person",person.getId()),person)
Note: person here is an template argument of type Person. #genlink is a convenience template(or tag) to generate a link using a lookup.
The solution I currently use is:
#assign(lnk){<a href='#genlink("person",person.getId())'>#person</a>}
#i18n("about.txt",lnk)
Note that the language resource has changed to: about.text=See my profile here {0}
This is probably the better way to write the resource string anyway, but it would be nice if I could get rid of the #assign() somehow and write this:
#i18n("about.text","<a href='#genlink("person",person.getId())'>#person</a>")
Edit:
I tried your suggestions and was only partially successful.
Chain tag onto #i18n()
doing #("about.text".i18n()) works whereas doing #("about.text".i18n().nl2br()) doesn't work and complains about a missing parameter for #i18n(). If I add the missing parameter like so: #("about.txt".i18n("").nl2br()) it complains that nl2br() is not defined for String
What did work for me was: #s().i18n("about.txt").nl2br()
Even weirder so, when I run your fiddle on Chrome it works perfectly. When I run it on Mac/Safari I get the same error as I just described: see screenshot:
#i18n() escaped in javascript
Works as you explained!
Use of tag inside #i18n() as argument
understood. The current solution with #assign() is fine for one-offs. Using #def() is a nicer generic solution.
Chain tag onto #i18n()
Try to use .i18n() transformer instead of #i18n() tag.
Say change #i18n("about.text").nl2br() to #("about.text".i18n().nl2br())
Note you need the () pair to enclose the entire expression if you feed into a string literal like "about.text", however if you do the same thing for a variable then that () can be opt out, e.g #foo.i18n().nl2br()
#i18n() escaped in javascript
Again, use .i18n() transformer
Use of tag inside #i18n() as argument
Tag processing is very hard to put into another tag or transformer. In your case I recommend you to use inline tag
The demonstration of all above three points could be found at http://fiddle.rythmengine.org/#/editor/0c426d5332334db3870b6bd8c0806e66
What can I do in case if I load the page in Selenium and then I have to do like 100 different parsing requests to this page?
At this moment I use different driver.findElement(By...) and the problem is that every time it is a http (get/post) request from java into selenium. From this case one simple page parsing costs me like 30+ seconds (too much).
I think that I must get source code (driver.getPageSource()) from first request and then parse this string locally (my page does not change while I parse it).
Can I build some kind of HTML object from this string to keep working with WebElement requests?
Do I have to use another lib to build HTML object? (for example - jsoup) In this case I will have to rebuild my parsing requests from webelement's and XPath.
Anything else?
When you call findElement, there is no need for Selenium to parse the page to find the element. The parsing of the HTML happens when the page is loaded. Some further parsing may happen due to JavaScript modifications to the page (like when doing element.innerHTML += ...). What Selenium does is query the DOM with methods like .getElementsByClassName, .querySelector, etc. This being said, if your browser is loaded on a remote machine, things can slow down. Even locally, if you are doing a huge amount of round-trip to between your Selenium script and the browser, it can impact the script's speed quite a bit. What can you do?
What I prefer to do when I have a lot of queries to do on a page is to use .executeScript to do the work on the browser side. This can reduce dozens of queries to a single one. For instance:
List<WebElement> elements = (List<WebElement>) ((JavascriptExecutor) driver)
.executeScript(
"var elements = document.getElementsByClassName('foo');" +
"return Array.prototype.filter.call(elements, function (el) {" +
" return el.attributes.whatever.value === 'something';" +
"});");
(I've not run the code above. Watch out for typos!)
In this example, you'd get a list of all elements of class foo that have an attribute named whatever which has a value equal to something. (The Array.prototype.filter.call rigmarole is because .getElementsByClassName returns something that behaves like an Array but which is not an Array so it does not have a .filter method.)
Parsing locally is an option if you know that the page won't change as you examine it. You should get the page's source by using something like:
String html = (String) ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript(
"return document.documentElement.outerHTML");
By doing this, you see the page exactly in the way the browser interpreted it. You will have to use something else than Selenium to parse the HTML.
Maybe try evaluating your elements only when you try to use them?
I dont know about the Java equivalent, but in C# you could do something similar to the following, which would only look for the element when it is used:
private static readonly By UsernameSelector = By.Name("username");
private IWebElement UsernameInputElement
{
get { return Driver.FindElement(UsernameSelector); }
}
I want to verify below text(HTML code) is present on page which as // characters , etc using selenium /jav
<div class="powatag" data-endpoint="https://api-sb2.powatag.com" data-key="b3JvYmlhbmNvdGVzdDErYXBpOjEyMzQ1Njc4" data-sku="519" data-lang="en_GB" data-type="bag" data-style="bg-act-left" data-colorscheme="light" data-redirect=""></div>
Appreciate any help on this
I believe you're looking for:
String textToVerify = "some html";
boolean bFoundText = driver.getPageSource.contains(textToVerify)
Assert.assertTrue(bFoundText);
Note, this checks the page source of the last loaded page as detailed here in the javadoc. I've found this to also take longer to execute, especially when dealing with large source codes. As such, this method is more prone to failure than validating the attributes and values and the answer from Breaks Software is what I utilize when possible, only with an xpath selector
As Andreas commented, you probably want to verify individual attributes of the div element. since you specifically mentioned the "//", I'm guessing that you are having trouble with the data-endpoint attribute. I'm assuming that your data-sku attribute will bring you to a unique element, so Try something like this (not verified):
String endpoint = driver.findElement(
new By.ByCssSelector("div[data-sku='519']")).getAttribute("data-endpoint");
assertTrue("https://api-sb2.powatag.com", endpoint);
I have a JSP page with an html form . i enter the value of the form fields and hit the submit button the control will go the Action class . My question here is for every field in the JSP page do i need to have a corresponding property in Action class with getters and setters .
I dont have any property defined in my Action class and am trying to fetch value's from the HTML field's . . . i get OGNL Exception
WARNING: Error setting expression 'Release Version Template' with value '[Ljava.lang.String;#4eb585'
ognl.ExpressionSyntaxException: Malformed OGNL expression: Release Version Template [ognl.ParseException: Encountered " "Version "" at line 1, column 9.
Is there some workaround for this or should i edit my JSP?
No, you don't have to provide a property for every parameter you're sending with your request. After all it's just a warning that you get and I suspect the reason should be that development mode is enabled in struts.xml.
The warning above, on the other hand, seems to indicate that you're passing the value as the parameter name and thus you get the OGNL warning, so please check that (and maybe post the relevant part of your jsp).
You can also blacklist or whitelist parameters per application or per action but you'd still get warnings if you send those parameters and have development mode enabled.
I am using Struts 2.1.8 and facing validation problem in IE. I am getting the following error
An exception occurred: Error. Error message: Invalid argument.
I tried out to figure out the cause and found the following. My generated javascript code is:
field = form.elements['district.name'];
var error = "Enter only alphabets for district";
if (continueValidation && field.value != null && !field.value.match("^[a-zA-Z ]*$")) {
addError(field, error);
errors = true;
}
I tried to mock up by putting the same code in a function and calling it in onclick event. The method addError() throws the exception and the reason is field variable. If I change it to field[0], it works fine. How to fix this error?
Check the generated HTML source. Open the page in webbrowser, rightclick and choose View Source. Is the input field's name really district.name? Isn't it prefixed/suffixed with some other autogenerated key (possibly the ID/name of the <form>) like as many other MVC frameworks do? If so, you'll need to change the JavaScript code accordingly that it uses the right element name as it appears in the HTML DOM tree. You know, JavaScript runs at the client machine and only sees the generated HTML DOM tree, not the "original" server-side code which is responsible for generating the HTML.