watir-formhandler

Extends some Watir classes to provide a more comfortale handling for forms and their fields.

• Installation
• Usage
• #set
• #field_value
• #field
• #fill_in
• #value_of
• OptionGroup
• :start_node
• Latest Changes

Install it from your command line

gem install watir-formhandler

Install it via Gemfile

gem 'watir-formhandler'

Simply require it wherever you want to use it:

require 'watir-formhandler'

All standard HTML form fields now share a common #set interface to change its value, no matter which subtype the field actually has:

browser = Watir::Browser.new('example_site')

browser.text_field(id: 'some_textfield').set('Some Text')
browser.checkbox(id: 'check_me').set(true)
browser.select(id: 'select_stuff').set('Option1')

All standard HTML form fields now share a common #field_value interface which returns the currently set value. But be prudent, the data type may vary, just like the customized value methods.

browser = Watir::Browser.new('example_site')

browser.text_field(id: 'my_text').field_value     # String
browser.checkbox(id: 'check_me').field_value      # true/false
browser.select(id: 'selection').field_value       # String if only one option is selected
browser.select(id: 'multiple').field_value        # Array of Strings for several options

All Containers now have a method to determine a form field by its label, placeholders or ID, returning the appropriate Watir sub-type class.

browser = Watir::Browser.new('example_site')
form = browser.form(id: 'my_form')

form.field('Some Text Field Label')                # returns TextField if found
form.field('Some Checkbox Label')                  # returns Checkbox if found
form.field('Placeholder Text', placeholder: true)  # returns TextField containing a placeholder
                                                   # attribute with 'Placeholder Text'

All Containers now have a method to search a form field by its label, placeholder or ID and change its value.

browser = Watir::Browser.new('example_site')
form = browser.form(id: 'my_form')

form.fill_in('Some Text Field', 'Some text')    # enters 'Some text' into the TextField with
                                                # label 'Some Text Field'

form.fill_in('Some Text Field', 'Some text', placeholder: true) # enters 'Some text' into the
                                                                # TextField with placeholder
                                                                # 'Some Text Field'

All Containers now have a method to search a form field by its label, placeholder or ID and return its current value.

browser = Watir::Browser.new('example_site')
form = browser.form(id: 'my_form')

form.value_of('Some Text Field')                    # Reads the value of field labeled
                                                    # 'Some Text Field'

form.value_of('Some Text Field', placeholder: true) # Reads the value of a TextField with
                                                    # placeholder 'Some Text Field'

A new Container sub class, which represents a group of radio buttons and/or checkboxes. Such a group may always be referred to, but since 2.7.0 the group will also be automatically returned by #field of the described label is pointing to anything else but a regular input field.

browser = Watir::Browser.new('example_site')
form = browser.form(id: 'my_form')

form.field('OptionsGroupElement')                       # will return the the collection of checkboxes and radios
                                                        # as OptionGroup instance

The methods #field, #fill_in and #value_of will start their search for the specified label with the given String on the Container on which it is called, by default. However, you may specify an arbitrary start_node from which to start, which will probably be most useful when calling the methods directly on your Watir::Browser instance.

• Updated minimum watir-webdriver version to 0.7.0
• Tests passed with selenium-webdriver 2.46.2, compatible with Firefox 38.0, Chromium 43
• Changed OptionGroup to behave like a normal element now
• OptionGroup will now automatically be returned by #field and used by the respective methods.

• Fixed documentation of #value_of method

• Added #value_of method that works in the exact same way as #fill_in, but which returns the current value of a field.

• Added option to find input fields by ID
• Added option to fill input fields by ID

• Renamed the files in such a way that the gem can now properly required with a hyphen like the gem name instead of an underscore:

  require 'watir-formhandler'