Selenium type on StaticTextItem

[ueng]

Hi,

I have an automated test that enters a date into a StaticTextItem with a DateFormatter set. The problem is that in most of the time the text is not formatted (it is typed correctly).

I tried to click on the element before entering the text and also pressing the TAB key after the text is entered, but with no success.

The strange part is that a some occasions the text is correctly formatted. So this is an intermittent issue (most of the times it fails though).

I'd like to know if there is anyway that I can force the text to be formatted.

I'm using Smartclient v90p_2013-12-10_LGPL and Selenium webdriver v2.39.0. I'm testing it with Firefox v26.0.

Thanks,

[Isomorphic]

We can't imagine a reason for *intermittent* problems formatting other than:

1. you have a custom formatter that sometimes crashes

2. you are delivering data to the component which is sometimes not a Date (a String instead for example).

Let us know if you uncover anything that suggests an issue in SmartGWT, and we can take a look.

[ueng]

I can't tell you whether this is a SmartClient issue or not. What I know is that a simple element.sendKeys() didn't trigger the proper event (which seems to be the onBlur()).

What I had to do (after try-and-error) is that I added the following code:

JavascriptExecutor executor = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;
executor.executeScript("if (arguments[0].onfocus) arguments[0].onfocus();", elem);
executor.executeScript("if (arguments[0].onblur) arguments[0].onblur();", elem);

As I said, I don't know if this is a SmartClient issue, but I was expecting it to work fine.

[Isomorphic]

Right, best guess, since you are directly calling WebDriver's element.sendKeys(), this just indicates it's failing to properly handle Tab. Possibly this is a platform-specific WebDriver issue.

We don't currently have any kind of wrapper over the WebDriver API that would help here.