Handle Ajax with Selenium RC

Posted: December 15th, 2009 | Author: Anuradha Uduwage | Filed under: Java Ruled, Selenium | Tags: Java, Selenium | 4 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.

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

Our application uses Prototype ajax library. so I used waitForCondition() from selenium api, and implement the following method.

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

I have added .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.

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