Question

I’m trying to sign in to yahoo.com using HtmlUnit. But it doesn’t work when my program trying to click “Sign In” button. My code is:

import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebClient;
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlForm;
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlPage;
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlSubmitInput;
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlTextInput;
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.BrowserVersion;
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.Page;
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.RefreshHandler;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;

public class MyBrowser {

    public void homePage() throws Exception {


        WebClient webClient = new WebClient(BrowserVersion.FIREFOX_3_6);
        webClient.setThrowExceptionOnScriptError(false);

        webClient.setRefreshHandler(new RefreshHandler() {
            public void handleRefresh(Page page, URL url, int arg) throws IOException {
                System.out.println("handleRefresh");
            }

        });

        HtmlPage page = (HtmlPage) webClient.getPage("https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?.src=fpctx&.intl=us&.done=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yahoo.com%2F");
        HtmlForm form = page.getFormByName("login_form");

        form.getInputByName("login").setValueAttribute("@@@@@@");  // works OK
        form.getInputByName("passwd").setValueAttribute("@@@@@@"); // works OK
        page = (HtmlPage) form.getInputByValue("Sign In").click(); // doesn't work

        webClient.closeAllWindows();
    }

}

Error:

com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.ElementNotFoundException: elementName=[input] attributeName=[value] attributeValue=[Sign In]
        at com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlForm.getInputByValue(HtmlForm.java:737)

Form is:

<form method="post" action="https://login.yahoo.com/config/login?" autocomplete="" name="login_form" onsubmit="return hash2(this)">
    ...
    <div id="submit">
        <button type="submit" id=".save" name=".save" class="primaryCta" tabindex="5"> Sign In </button>
    </div>
</form>

Answer 1

I do know nothing about HtmlUnit, but from the error message it looks like the it searches for some element with a value attribute, and your button has no such attribute. Maybe byName or such? And it is not a <input> element, but a <button> element, so maybe something like getButtonByName(".save")?

Edit: I found the Javadoc, and seems I guessed the method name right :-p