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Eric Wooley
Eric Wooley

Reputation: 643

In Se-Builder evals, how can you reference stored variables?

I am using se-Builder (not selenium ide) http://sebuilder.github.io/se-builder/

and I am trying to use an assertEval and reference a previously stored variable in the javascript line.

In the selenium IDE, you reference it using a storedVars object, however the following doesn't seem to work. (I get a script error). I have also tried returning just hw and ${hw} but nothing seems to work. Here is the documentation, which doesn't seem to mention this. https://github.com/sebuilder/se-builder/wiki

store
"HelloWorld"
hw

assertEval
return storedVars['hw'] // this is the problem line
"HelloWorld"

Upvotes: 1

Views: 540

Answers (1)

Eric Wooley
Eric Wooley

Reputation: 643

I figured it out myself.

The eval command does insert variables into eval with this:

${var}

notation.

What was screwing me up is that it inserts everything as is. So if you have a string stored as myText with the value: "some text" and try to insert it into your javascript.

var myText = ${myText};

It does not insert as

var myText = "some text";

as I incorrectly assumed (this is pretty obvious looking back that it was a terrible assumption). It is inserted directly:

var myText = some text;

what you need to do is

var myText = "${myText}";

so the result ends up like this:

var myText = "some text";

which was giving me lots of errors, but nothing helpful. I know this answer seems obvious, but I am posting the answer in case someone is making the same mistake I was.

Another thing to be aware of is the new lines will automatically be inserted into the js, which while cause another error. Which was also happening to me. I ended up needing to store an eval which removed all new lines from the element I was looking for and then storing that text.

Upvotes: 2

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