Re: Replacing Test::WWW::Selenium::Catalyst with Gtk3::WebKit

[Emmanuel Rodriguez <emmanuel rodriguez gmail com>]

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 16:49, Stefan Seifert <nine detonation org> wrote:
> Hi!
Hi,
> I'm trying to replace Test::WWW::Selenium::Catalyst using Gtk3::Webkit and
> Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst. Main goal is to avoid the lengthy Selenium
> Server and Firefox startup when running tests but it would also be nice to be
> able to run tests in parallel more easily. Even with randomized port numbers,
> the Selenium server fails to start up sometimes.

I got asked a few times about replacing Selenium with Gtk3::WebKit, so
your efforts will be appreciated.

> A quick hack got me pretty far but now I'm stuck trying to get AJAX requests
> to work. I'm able to satisfy all other requests by hooking into the 'resource-
> request-starting' signal, getting the result with
> Test::WWW::Mechanize::Catalyst and give it back to WebKit as a data: URI.
I think that you should be able to rewrite the contents of the soup
message or at least you should be able to do a redirect if you can to
a different URL.
For this you will need to load HTTP::Soup so that you have libsoup
bindings loaded through introspection.

> Unfortunately, one cannot make AJAX requests to data: URIs. Instead I tried to
> change the request to a POST to a simple HTTP Echo service, but for example I
> cannot find out how to set the content-type of the HTTP request. There does
> not seem to be a write accessor for that property.
Can you give me more info/input on what's happening and what your
program is trying to accomplish?

> So does anyone have ideas, advice or experience in this area? I guess as a
> last resort, I will fork out and answer requests in a separate process via a
> real HTTP request. But doing it in-process would let us get rid of quite a few
> difficulties in writing tests for asynchronous interfaces...
I think that what's needed is to play with Soup messages and to swap
their content or do a proper redirect. I believe that libsoup allows
us to do this kind of things.

-- 
Emmanuel Rodriguez