sahi, suggestion: "_wait(maxTime, condition)" with "AND" functionality, not just "OR" -- stop execution if "condition" returns false

i wish there was an additional "_wait(maxTime, condition)" function that would stop execution if condition returns false.

as of now, it seems as if "wait + condition" continues execution no matter the outcome of "condition", which makes it an "OR" test, but my suggestion would be for an "AND" test, i.e.:
wait, up until maxTime is reached, and if condition is still false, then stop execution.

i want this because of network/server response timing issues, specifically related to ajax operations.

UPDATE
i just posted this as a discussion in the sahi forums:
suggestion for _wait: stop execution if condition returns false

UPDATE, WORKAROUND
to achieve the same thing today, it looks like you'd have to code it like this:
_wait(10000, _assertTrue(_isVisible(_link("detailsForm:saveAgreementBtn"))));
_assertTrue(_isVisible(_link("detailsForm:saveAgreementBtn")));

and this gives the same functionality, but with less code, but also may look potentially confusing:
_wait(10000, _isVisible(_link("detailsForm:saveAgreementBtn")));
_assertTrue(_isVisible(_link("detailsForm:saveAgreementBtn")));

[SOLVED] sahi, primefaces: p:dataTable no rendered table tag id

i'm updating our sahi test scripts for our new primefaces frontend and ran into a difficulty when trying to select a specific table row cell.

this page gives a hint as to how to select specific table cells:
http://sahi.co.in/docs/faq/get-cell-data.html

using this format:
_cell(_table("<table_identifier>"), x-1, y-1)


but the problem is that when a primefaces p:dataTable gets rendered to HTML, the table is enclosed in a div tag, and that div tag gets the id value set in the p:dataTable code, and the actual table tag doesn't have an id.

i solved my problem like this:
_cell(_table(1, _in(_div("selectMember:selectMemberTable"))), 1, 1)

here i specify the *second* table (there's a table in the header too), which is the actual dataTable table (0-based indexing, so value "1").

however, from what i can see, the sahi documentation is confusing concerning "x" and "y", if you interpret "x" to mean column (left<->right position), like i do.

"...1, 1)", in reality, means "row 2 (x), column 2 (y)" (0-based indexing, so "1, 1")

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as a side note, i found this sahi script code useful/interesting too:
_table(0, _in(_div("selectMember:selectMemberTable"))).rows[0].style='background-color:red'

which changes the background color of the first row of the first table to red.

sahi, primefaces: "ReferenceError: PrimeFaces is not defined". solution: just rerun the sahi script

sometimes when i run a sahi script to test our primefaces ui, the script times out with the following error:

ReferenceError: PrimeFaces is not defined (http://localhost/pages/listTransportAgreements.jsf:278)

when i rerun the script, it usually goes away, so i'm not quite sure why it works sometimes and other times it doesn't.

primefaces p:commandLink oncomplete attribute referencing non-existent ID was messing up table filter and sort functions

i had this primefaces delete-icon code in a table row:
<p:commandLink id="deletelink" title="#{msg['label.delete']}"
    action="#{ta_mappingObject.setCurrentItemAndPanelToShow(agreement, 'deleteTA')}"
    rendered="#{!ta_mappingObject.createFromRequestDetails and userMenuBean.canEditAgreement()}"
    oncomplete="PF('confDeleteAgreement').show();">
    <h:graphicImage value="/images/icons/delete.gif" style="border:0" />
</p:commandLink>

and stuff on the page like filtering and sorting wasn't working, so i figured out that because that link was referencing a dialog ID that didn't exist, it was messing up the whole page, so i changed it to this:
<p:commandLink id="deletelink" title="#{msg['label.delete']}"
    action="#{ta_mappingObject.setCurrentItemAndPanelToShow(agreement, 'deleteTA')}"
    rendered="#{!ta_mappingObject.createFromRequestDetails and userMenuBean.canEditAgreement()}"
    oncomplete="PF('andIdThatExists').show();">
    <h:graphicImage value="/images/icons/delete.gif" style="border:0" />
</p:commandLink>


and everything started working again.

primefaces - show p:modalPanel from java backing bean / controller class and update specific id or collection of id strings

here's how you show a p:modalPanel from a java backing bean call:
org.primefaces.context.RequestContext.getCurrentInstance().execute("myModalPanelWV.show()");

"modalPanelWV" is the widgetVar value, e.g.:
<p:modalPanel id="myModalPanel" widgetVar="myModalPanelWV" ...

update an id from backing bean:
org.primefaces.context.RequestContext.getCurrentInstance().update("growl");

OR update a Collection<String> of IDs:
org.primefaces.context.RequestContext.getCurrentInstance().update(myCollectionOfStringIds);

[SOLVED] jboss 7 jdk 6 startup in debug opens FileNotFoundException.class: Suspended (exception FileNotFoundException) jdk/jre/lib/zi/UTC

i started to encounter something weird when i was starting up my local jboss 7 instance in debug mode (using jdk 6):
FileNotFoundException.class would open in the eclipse debugger

with this error message in the console:
Suspended (exception FileNotFoundException) ~/workspaceEclipse/tcTrunk/jdk/jre/lib/zi/UTC


i figured out that "zi" means "ZoneInfoFile"

i can see that there's a UTC file in zi/Etc/:
~/workspaceEclipse/tcTrunk/jdk/jre/lib/zi/Etc/UTC

SOLUTION

all i had to do to fix this was copy the file to the expected folder:

cp ~/workspaceEclipse/tcTrunk/jdk/jre/lib/zi/Etc/UTC ~/workspaceEclipse/tcTrunk/jdk/jre/lib/zi/

[SOLVED] sahi include script does not exist

today's problem started out like this:

### verify_any_transport_requests.sah ###

_include("functions/common_functions.sah");
_include("functions/common_vars.sah");
_include("functions/transport_request_functions.sah");

tc_login($buyer_user_unil, $buyer_pass_unil);

listAllTRQsUnfiltered();

tc_logout();

###########################

every time i'd try running this script i'd get the following error in the sahi log:
ERROR
Script: /home/nick/workspaceEclipse/tcTrunk/testing/functional_testing/stage_1/sahi/functions/transport_request_functions.sah does not exist.


since i knew that the include file indeed did exist, i figured it had to be something wrong with the code. then i saw this code in transport_request_functions.sah:

_link("filtermenubarForm:filterBtn");

it should have been:
_click(_link("filtermenubarForm:filterBtn"));

it seems like that was the problem.