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user1888243

Reputation: 2681

Information on Server Is Not Updated

I've been testing HtmlUnit with a few sites; in all these sites,they have elements such as a radio button or checkbox that when you click, then your profile on that site is updated; you don't need to submit a form or anything. But when I take the exact same actions with HtmlUnit, my profile on the server is not really updated. Do I have to do something special such as synchronizing the local copy of the page that HtmlUnit has with the server so that the server sees the change? As an example, I have added my code for switching my resume on a website from private/public and vice versa. When I visit the page on a browser, all I have to do is click one of the two radio buttons to make the resume public/private; but when I do the same on HtmlUnit, and then go and visit the page on a browser to check, I can see that the information on the server hasn't been changed. I've included my code below. Note that I have another method which logs in to the site, and I know that I login correctly. Given this is happening with my sites for me, I thought maybe there is something like synchronizing with the server that I'm not doing.

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    public void update(String urlOfThePage)
    {
        // First, declare any element name or xapth that you are going to
use.        String xpathOfIsPublicRadioButton = "//input[@id='privacy_show']";
        String xpathOfIsPrivateRadioButton = "//input[@id='privacy_hide']";

        // Get the first page
        try
        {
            final HtmlPage resumePage = (HtmlPage) webclient.getPage(urlOfThePage);
            CrawlerUtility.savePage(resumePage, "resumePage");
            final HtmlRadioButtonInput makePublicRadioButton  =
(HtmlRadioButtonInput)

resumePage.getFirstByXPath(xpathOfIsPublicRadioButton);
            final HtmlRadioButtonInput makePrivateRadioButton  =
                                       (HtmlRadioButtonInput)
resumePage.getFirstByXPath(xpathOfIsPrivateRadioButton);
            Page result = null;
            if (isProfilePublic())
            {
                result = makePrivateRadioButton.click();
                System.out.println("The Profile is changed to private
now.");
                Thread.sleep(60000);
            }
            else
            {
                result = makePublicRadioButton.click();
                System.out.println("The Profile is changed to public now.");
                Thread.sleep(60000);
            }

        }
        catch (Throwable e)
        {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }//End of try/catch block.


    }//End of update().

Upvotes: 0

Views: 32

Answers (1)

Akira
Akira

Reputation: 4071

If you don't submit a form, then you may be using AJAX behind the scenes to send data to the server. HTML unit won't send the same to the server since it will not process the AJAX requests. What you need is something more sophisticated such as Sikuli http://www.sikuli.org which actually clicks on elements on your webpage in the exact same way a user does. You can also try Selenium (http://www.seleniumhq.org/) which is specific to web browsers.

Upvotes: 1

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