get src url parameter from script tag with selenium ide

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I am using Selenium IDE to verify some elements on a page during a test. I have a script tag that has a dynamic SRC attribute on it. It generates the parameters for the url based on what page design i am on. I am trying to store the value of the parameters for this SRC attribute in Selenium IDE and can't figure out how to do it. Thoughts??

Here is the whole script tag. I just want the Selenium IDE to store the DesignFamily value.

<script src="/JS.aspx?DesignFamily=GSMFamily&amp;Design=GSMExtreme&amp;Version=2011-4-29-17-2-5" type="text/javascript"></script>

9ikhan · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-04 11:21:19Z

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This might be the easy workaround. First create user-extension as given here

Then in user-extensions.js add this function.

Selenium.prototype.doStoreQueryStringParameter = function(xpath, varName) { var currentDocument = selenium.browserbot.getCurrentWindow().document var result = currentDocument.evaluate(xpath, currentDocument, null, XPathResult.STRING_TYPE, null); result = result.stringValue var str = result.split(";")[0].split("=")[1]; storedVars[varName] = str; };

storeQueryStringParameter function should be in command dropdown after your user-extensions.js has been loaded.

While using this your target should be something like //*parent tags to script*/script[n]/@src //n =1,2,3.. e.g select 2 if 2nd script inside of its of parent tag is to be used

edited May 4, 2011 at 11:21

answered May 4, 2011 at 10:19

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RyanPitts Over a year ago

That worked! I did however, need to change the .split(";") to a .split("&") as i had multiple variables and your query just returned the first value WITH the second key. Thanks for your help!

9ikhan Over a year ago

ya, i specifically targeted "DesignFamily" :)

rs79 · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-03 21:03:15Z

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This may not be the most graceful solution, but you can explore the use of getHtmlSource() available in the IDE... Though, without extending the capability using RC, I'm not sure about parsing the needed information.

answered May 3, 2011 at 21:03

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