From: Paul Rogers <pmr16366@...>
Date: 2007-07-24T03:14:59+09:00
Subject: Re: watir checker being run twice?

On Jul 23, 11:20 am, "Kyle Schmitt" <kyleaschm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all.
> Short version: the Proc I pass to Watir's add_checker is run twice on
> each page load
>
> Long version:
> I'm trying to get decent logging out of my watir scripts, without an
> insane amount of extra code.
>
> I settled on using the add_checker method, which takes a Proc, to
> handle things like assertions.
>
> Every class in my script inherits from SuperPage (shown below, heavily
> heavily chopped down for ease of reading).
> Aside from running the Proc twice, this seems to work well.
>
> The throw is commented out, because well, sometimes you want the error
> in your page, but you want the thing to continue.  Obviously if it's
> not commented out, the proc only runs once.  And yes I know having the
> page seems like overkill, but I want to be able to retrieve it from an
> xml log file later (after I replace my log method)
>
> Thanks --Kyle
>
> require 'win32ole'
> require 'zlib'
> require 'base64'
> require 'watir'
>
> class SuperPage
>
>   def initialize(baseURL,pageURL,pageName,phrases=["Server Error"])
>     @pageURL = pageURL
>     @pageName = pageName
>     @baseURL = baseURL
>     @phrases = phrases
>     setupIE()
>   end
>
>   def logError(message)
>     log(:Error,message)
>     #commented out, so log the error but try and continue
>      #throw :assertion_error
>   end
>
>   def log(type,message)
>     puts("#{type.to_s}: #{message.to_s}")
>   end
>
>   def buildAssertionChecker()
>     Proc.new do
>       |ie|
>       @phrases.each do
>         |phrase|
>         if ie.text.include?phrase
>           z=Zlib::Deflate.new(9)
>           logError("Found #{phrase}, compressed b64 encoded page is
> #{Base64.encode64(z.deflate(ie.html,Zlib::FINISH))}")
>         end
>       end
>     end
>   end
>
>   def setupIE()
>     begin
>       @ie=Watir::IE.attach(:url,/localhost/)
>     rescue
>       @ie=Watir::IE.new()
>       @ie.goto(@baseURL)
>     end
>     @ie.waitForIE
>     #add the checking facility
>     @ie.add_checker(buildAssertionChecker)
>   end
>
> end

You'd do better to post to the watir list.
This might be due to a number of reasons - if you can post some html I
might be better able to help you.
Which version of watir are you using?

Paul