PHPUnit + Selenium 2: Action on ajax load

Question

During test I need to do following:

Click button which leads to ajax request and redirect after that
Check that user has been redirected to correct page

My Code:

$this->byId('reg_email')->value('[email protected]');
$this->byId('reg_password')->value('seecret');
// No form here, so i can't just call submit()
// This click invokes ajax request
$this->byId('reg_submit')->click();

// Check page content (this page should appear after redirect)
$msg = $this->byCssSelector('h1')->text();
$this->assertEquals('Welcome!', $msg);

Problem

Message check goes right after click, not before ajax request and page redirect

Solution, I do not like:

Add sleep(3); before content check.

I do not like it because:

It is silly
In case of fast responses I am going to lose time, in case of long requests I am going to get content check before ajax request finishes.

I wonder, is there any way to track ajax request+refresh and check for content just in time?

My setup:

PHP 5.4, 5.5 also available
PHPUnit 3.8
Selenium RC integration for PHPUnit 1.3.1
Selenium-server-standalone 2.33.0
Windows 7 x64
JRE 7

Pavel · Accepted Answer · 2017-04-06 00:31:47Z

10

Ok, there is a kind of solution, I do not really like it, but it is something instead of nothing.

The idea is to use more smart "sleep", there is a method waitUntil() which takes an anonymous function and timeout in milliseconds. What is does - runs this passed function in loop until timeout hits or your function return True. So you can run something and wait until context is changed:

$this->waitUntil(function () {
    if ($this->byCssSelector('h1')) {
        return true;
    }
    return null;
}, 5000);

I still will be glad if somebody give better solution.

edited Apr 6, 2017 at 0:31

answered Jul 23, 2013 at 17:52

Pavel

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2 Comments

catbadger Over a year ago

This fails into a memory leak.

kiwicomb123 Over a year ago

This works well actually, it works almost the same as a implicitWait.

Byakku · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-22 09:37:41Z

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Hmm, I'm not sure if it can be usefull for you, but you can try to use this :

$this->timeouts()->implicitWait(20000);

answered Aug 22, 2013 at 9:37

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