[Celerity-users] Magic transmogrifying row object

[Ben Butler-Cole]

2009/11/25 Jari Bakken <jari.bakken at gmail.com>:
>
>> I need to get at the underlying HtmlUnit object for a table row. When
>> I first tried it I discovered that it didn't have the methods I was
>> expecting. By trial and error I have discovered that the first time I
>> access the row's HtmlUnit object (via the .object method) it returns a
>> List. The second time it returns an HtmlTableRow. Ummm????
>
> Without having the code in front of me, I would guess this is caused by the
> lazy locating of elements. If you try row(...).locate you should get the
> correct HU object directly.

Calling .locate *always* gives the wrong type (the list instead of the
HtmlTableRow).

I have put the code in front of myself and had a look. I think there
is a bug in Celerity::TableRow.locate. The relevant bits look like
this:

module Celerity
  class Element
    def locate
      @object = ElementLocator.new(@container,
self.class).find_by_conditions(@conditions)
    end

    def object
      @object || locate
    end
  end

  class TableRow < Element
    def locate
      super
      @cells = @object.getCells if @object
    end
  end
end

So the .object method in Element expects .locate to return the object
as well as assign it. But TableRow's overridden .locate returns the
cells instead. The easiest fix is:

module Celerity
  class TableRow
    def locate
      super
      @cells = @object.getCells if @object
      @object
    end
  end
end

Which I have verified locally.

> Out of interest, why do you need the underlying object?

I want to call the mouse* methods. I've added this:

class Celerity::Element
  def mouse_down
    object.mouseDown
  end
  def mouse_up
    object.mouseUp
  end
  def mouse_move
    object.mouseMove
  end
end

Ben