[Wtr-general] Application Map

[Bret Pettichord]

On 4/27/06, John Castellucci <johnc at testdev.net> wrote:
>
> Bret Pettichord wrote:
> >I am thinking of adding a Map class to Watir. Here's how it would work...
>
> I found this an interesting problem, and as it applied to something I was
> doing at work, I wanted to give it a stab.  Below is my "hack" at a Map
> class.  It only works in Watir 1.5.  So, how many rules did I break?  ;)


Only one: don't complicate things unnecessarily. You can do the same thing
directly with Watir itself!


> # Watir 1.5 ONLY!!!
> require 'watir'
>
> module Watir
>   class Map
>     def initialize(ie)
>       @ie = ie
>       Watir::Container.instance_methods.each do |method|
>         Map.class_eval("def #{method}(k,v); @ie.#{method}(k,v); end") if
> method !~/=/
>       end
>     end
>   end
> end
>
> ie = Watir::IE.start('http://google.com')
> map = Watir::Map.new(ie)


If leave out the Map class and instead do

  map = Watir::IE.start('http://google.com')

the following will still work fine:


> SearchField = map.text_field(:name, 'q')
> SearchButton = map.button(:name, 'btnG')
>
> SearchField.set('PickAxe')
> SearchButton.click()


I think the Map idea makes sense when you define it  *before* the IE class
has been instantiated. That's the scenario that is a challenge to support.

Bret
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wtr-general/attachments/20060428/d8c03f92/attachment.html