getAttribute() in Firefox

Hi,





Call getAttribute in the Evaluate dialog while debugging. What do you get?

Just an empty result with Firefox.

Using Evaluate with the same item mapped via IE gives the expected string back.

Hi,





I checked this with FF 3.6.16 and TC 8.20, and I was able to get attributes of page objects via getAttribute. The problem seems to be in FF on your side.

Which attribute to you get using getAttribute and what kind of object?

(Sample code)



I'm trying to get a "selfmade" attribute that we call TargetName on a <div> 

Hi,

I'm trying to get a "selfmade" attribute that we call TargetName on a <div>

Can you post here HTML code of the object you're trying to access so I can check it?

Also, why don't you try accessing the needed attribute as a property (targetObj.TargetName)? It should be accessible this way.

Code running against live demo. Open IE/FF and browse to url:

http://demo10.qlikview.com/QvAJAXZfc/opendoc.htm?document=Online%20Sales.qvw&host=demo10&anonymous=true



IE returns excepted result but FF returs empty string.



function checkGetAttribute()

{ 

    var page = Sys.Process("firefox").Page("http://demo10.qlikview.com/QvAJAXZfc/opendoc.htm?document=Online%20Sales.qvw&host=demo10&anonymous=true"); 

    //var page = Sys.Process("iexplore").Page("http://demo10.qlikview.com/QvAJAXZfc/opendoc.htm?document=Online%20Sales.qvw&host=demo10&anonymous=true"); 



    props = ["className"]; 

    values = ["QvFrame"]; 



    QvFrames = page.FindAllChildren(props, values, 10); 

    QvFrames = QvFrames.toArray(); 



    cnt = QvFrames.length; 

    if (cnt > 0) 

    { 

        Log.Message(cnt + " object(s) were found:"); 

        for (i = 0; i < cnt; i++) 

        Log.Message(QvFrames.Name + " has TargetName = " + QvFrames.getAttribute("TargetName")); 

    } 

    else 

    { 

        Log.Message("No objects corresponding to the specified criteria were found."); 

    }

}

Hi,





I'll check it and post my results here.

Hi,



The behavior you faced seems to be related to Firefox - it doesn't expose the target attributes of objects on your page. These attributes are not accessible via the 'attributes' collection either (this collection is a native object implemented on FF's side).

Using getAttribute was just a method of understanding the problem.

I really have to be able to find objects using an attribute set by our AJAX framework.



Is FindAllChildren using the 'attributes' collection to find children?

props = ["TargetName"] isn't working in Firefox.



Javascript "inside" the HTML page is able to read object.TargetName why isn't it possible for TestComplete.

Trying something like:



function readTargetName()

{

   //var page = Sys.Process("iexplore").Page("http://demo10.qlikview.com/QvAJAXZfc/opendoc.htm?document=Online%20Sales.qvw&host=demo10&anonymous=true");

   //var Document = page.Application.document;



   var page = Sys.Process("firefox").Page("http://demo10.qlikview.com/QvAJAXZfc/opendoc.htm?document=Online%20Sales.qvw&host=demo10&anonymous=true");

   var Document = page.contentDocument;



   var QvFrame = Document.getElementById("12");

   Log.Message(QvFrame.TargetName);

}



It's working for IE but not Firefox using TestComplete.



If I run Firebug and starts the console:

var QvFrame = document.getElementById("12");

console.log('.TargetName = ' + QvFrame.TargetName);

Will nicely print the expected value of TargetName



Is there any way of getting TectComplete to find/read an attribute that was set by javascript?

Hi,



We'll investigate the behavior you've faced (attributes in Firefox are not accessible) with our developers. I'll post the investigation results here.