How do I call a JavaScript function from WWW::Scripter?

Hello all,

I'm trying to write a small script using WWW::Scripter that will take data from a client's web site in order to automate some of their processes. The problem that I'm running into is that to access the data, I have to log on to the web site.

The web site uses a small JavaScript function to handle this. The function is:


 function Login() {                       
    if(document.forms[0].login_name.value == "") {
        alert("Please fill in your login name");      
        document.forms[0].login_name.select();
        return;
    }
    if(document.forms[0].login_pwd.value == "") {
        alert("Please fill in your password");
        document.forms[0].login_pwd.select(); return;
    }
    document.forms[0].submit();
}            

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Using WWW::Scripter and the JavaScript plugin (and JE as the back end JS Engine) i've tried doing this:

 my sourceWebSite="http://xxxxxxxx";
 my $agent = WWW::Scripter->new();
 my $code;

 $agent->use_plugin(JavaScript =>
                       engine => "JE",
 );

 $agent->get("$sourceWebSite");

 $agent->plugin('JavaScript')->set(
          $agent,'document','forms[0]','login_name','value'=> 'xxxxxx'
    );

    $agent->plugin('JavaScript')->set(
           $agent,'document','forms[0]','login_pwd','value'=> 'xxxxxx'
    );

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I'm trying to use the Scripter class eval method to actually run the code. I set a variable $code to contain a string which is basically the JS function listed above and then called the eval method like so.

 $agent->eval($code,"JavaScript",$sourceWebSite);
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This doesn't work. At least, it won't then log in and provide me with the "member" content.

Anybody got any thoughts on what I'm missing?

Thanks

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Re: How do I call a JavaScript function from WWW::Scripter? by keszler (Curate) on Dec 01, 2011 at 00:47 UTC
Since the javascript is merely checking that both login_name and login_pwd are set to something, and you know that your code will set them both, why bother? Just set the fields and submit the form.	[reply]
Re: How do I call a JavaScript function from WWW::Scripter? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 01, 2011 at 09:39 UTC
... I'm trying to use the Scripter class eval method to actually run the code.... You shouldn't have to do that :) any onsubmit or onclick functions should be called by virtue of using a javascript plugin, when you use the submit method Like the docs say, WWW::Scripter is a subclass of WWW::Mechanize #!/usr/bin/perl -- use strict; use warnings; use URI; use WWW::Scripter; Main( @ARGV ); exit( 0 ); sub Main { my $w = WWW::Scripter->new( autocheck => 1, show_progress => 1, # prints to stderr ); $w->use_plugin('JavaScript'); #~ $w->add_handler("request_send", sub { shift->dump; return }); #~ $w->add_handler("response_done", sub { shift->dump; return }); $w->timeout(0.00000000001); for my $return ( qw/ false true / ) { warn "BowlingRETURNVALUE => $return \n"; $w->get( data_url($return) ); $w->submit; #~ $w->submit_form( #~ form_number => 0, #~ fields => { qw' user_choice Enter ' }, #~ ); } } BEGIN { my $html = <<'HTML'; <html> <head> <title> localhost form </title> <html> <script type="text/javascript"> function Bowling(){ alert("\nStrike\n"); /* prints to stdout / return BowlingRETURNVALUE; } </script> </head> <body> <base href="http://localhost/"> <form method="POST" action="http://localhost/" onsubmit="return Bowli +ng();">> <input id="enterbutton" type="submit" name="user_choice" value="Enter" + /> <input type="submit" name="user_choice" value="Leave" /> </form> </body> </html> HTML sub data_url { my $return = shift; my $h = $html; $h =~ s/BowlingRETURNVALUE/$return/; my $u = new URI 'data:'; $u->media_type('text/html'); $u->data( $h ); return $u; } } __END__ [download] As you can see from the log below, first submit doesn't trigger http activity because the onsubmit javascript returns false, but the next one does , because onsubmit callback returns true Since I don't have a server on localhost, the timeout causes an almost instant internal 500 error -- everything is working as expected `BowlingRETURNVALUE => false * GET data:text/html;base64,PGh0bWw+ID...Pgo= ==> 200 Document follow +s Strike BowlingRETURNVALUE => true GET data:text/html;base64,PGh0bWw+ID...+Cg== ==> 200 Document follo +ws Strike POST http://localhost/ ==> 500 Can't connect to localhost:80 (timeo +ut) Error POSTing http://localhost/: Can't connect to localhost:80 (timeou +t) at C:/perl/site/5.14.1/lib/WWW/Scripter.pm line 598` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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