Question

How can I store a value within Selenium-RC (through PHPUnit) and then retrieve/access it later using PHPUnit?

Suppose I run a command like the following in a test:

$this->storeExpression( "foo", "bar" );

If I understand the Selenium API documentation correctly, I could access this data using javascript{storedVars['foo']} using good ‘ol fashioned Selenese. It should contain the value "bar".

My question is this: how can I access this javascript{storedVars['test']} expression (or, more generally, javascript{storedVars} in PHPUnit?

For example, here’s a simple test I’ve run:

public function testStorage()
{
    $this->open('http://www.google.com/'); // for example
    $this->storeExpression( 'foo', 'bar' );
    $foo = $this->getExpression('foo');
    echo $foo;
}

The output of which is “foo” (among the other standard PHPUnit output), while I expect it should be “bar”. It’s just giving me back the name of the expression, not its value.

Can anyone with experience in this give me some guidance?

Answer 1

Good posts in this thread, but looks like no 100% working answer so far.

Based on the Selenium reference here

http://release.seleniumhq.org/selenium-core/1.0/reference.html#storedVars

It would seem the correct code syntax would be:

$this->storeExpression( 'bar', 'foo' );
$foo = $this->getExpression("\${foo}");

I haven’t tested that exactly, but doing something similar with

$this->storeHtmlSource('srcTxt');
$val = $this->getExpression('\${srcTxt}');
print $val;

did the trick for me.