Handle Ajax with Selenium RC

Posted: December 15th, 2009 | Author: Anuradha Uduwage | Filed under: Java Ruled, Selenium | Tags: Java, Selenium | 7 Comments »

Lately I have been adding improvements to the framework that I have build using selenium rc, JUnit, Java, and Xpath. While adding more functions I wanted to add a method to handle ajax. The idea was to wait until all the ajax action complete in a page. Selenium api has a waitForCondition method. Method accept a script, and time out.

1 2	public void waitForCondition(java.lang.String script, java.lang.String timeout)

Our application uses Prototype ajax library. so I used

1	waitForCondition()

from selenium api, and implement the following method.

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public void waitForAjax() {
super.waitForCondition("selenium.browserbot.getCurrentWindow().Ajax.activeRequestCount == 0;",
SeleniumDefaultProperties.getResourceAsStream("default.pageload.timeout"));
}

I have added

1	.properties

file to handle all the server settings and timings related to our test automation framework. In above method timing is invoked from that properties file.

7 Comments on “Handle Ajax with Selenium RC”

1 Nivashini said at 9:17 pm on March 16th, 2010:
yeah , that made so much sense! why didnt i see that!
2 Anuradha Uduwage said at 9:50 pm on March 17th, 2010:
Sometime you don’t see what is close to…
3 Ekaterina said at 2:03 am on April 15th, 2010:
Great! Thanks!
4 Anuradha Uduwage said at 10:21 pm on May 5th, 2010:
Thanks for reading the blog and I am glad this post helped you…
5 uvaraj said at 6:37 am on February 15th, 2011:
but when i use this am getting the following error

selenium.browserbot.getCurrentWindow().Ajax undefined.

do i have to include anything in order to make this happen..

and one more doubt what do you mean by “Our application uses Prototype ajax library”
6 Anuradha Uduwage said at 8:21 pm on February 17th, 2011:
Did you check if the page has ajax or not. If you use on a page that doesn’t use ajax this will obviously throw and error.
7 AM said at 1:27 pm on June 23rd, 2011:
I was looking for this same error while searching,one of the search results is your entry. It helped me.

Thanks,
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