I'm trying to fill out a form in a nasty page (baaad HTML!) using
Corion's handy utility
WWW::Mechanize::Shell.
The form includes this source:
<form name="someForm" method="post" action="/some_form.do">
...
<input type="checkbox" name="dayOfWeek" value="SUN" >Sun
<input type="checkbox" name="dayOfWeek" value="MON" >Mon
<input type="checkbox" name="dayOfWeek" value="TUE" >Tue
<input type="checkbox" name="dayOfWeek" value="WED" >Wed
<input type="checkbox" name="dayOfWeek" value="THU" >Thurs
<input type="checkbox" name="dayOfWeek" value="FRI" >Fri
<input type="checkbox" name="dayOfWeek" value="SAT" >Sat
...
</form>
which comes up in
WWW::Mechanize::Shell as:
dayOfWeek=<UNDEF> (checkbox) [*<UNDEF>/off|SUN/Sun]
dayOfWeek=<UNDEF> (checkbox) [*<UNDEF>/off|MON/Mon]
dayOfWeek=<UNDEF> (checkbox) [*<UNDEF>/off|TUE/Tue]
dayOfWeek=<UNDEF> (checkbox) [*<UNDEF>/off|WED/Wed]
dayOfWeek=<UNDEF> (checkbox) [*<UNDEF>/off|THU/Thurs]
dayOfWeek=<UNDEF> (checkbox) [*<UNDEF>/off|FRI/Fri]
dayOfWeek=<UNDEF> (checkbox) [*<UNDEF>/off|SAT/Sat ]
Everything I've tried like:
tick dayOfWeek SUN or tick or on or SUN or tick SUN on
just returns errors like:
|SUN
(checkbox)dayOfWeek> [] tick dayOfWeek SUN
Illegal value 'tick dayOfWeek SUN' for field 'dayOfWeek' at /usr/lib/p
+erl5/site_perl/5.8.0/WWW/Mechanize/FormFiller.pm line 124
and
|SUN
(checkbox)dayOfWeek> [] tick
Illegal value 'tick' for field 'dayOfWeek' at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
+/5.8.0/WWW/Mechanize/FormFiller.pm line 124
and
|SUN
(checkbox)dayOfWeek> [] tick SUN on
Illegal value 'tick SUN on' for field 'dayOfWeek' at /usr/lib/perl5/si
+te_perl/5.8.0/WWW/Mechanize/FormFiller.pm line 124
If I just hit <enter> on all of them so they are not ticked then I get this in the script output:
$formfiller->add_filler( 'dayOfWeek' => Fixed => '' );
$formfiller->add_filler( 'dayOfWeek' => Fixed => '' );
$formfiller->add_filler( 'dayOfWeek' => Fixed => '' );
$formfiller->add_filler( 'dayOfWeek' => Fixed => '' );
$formfiller->add_filler( 'dayOfWeek' => Fixed => '' );
$formfiller->add_filler( 'dayOfWeek' => Fixed => '' );
$formfiller->add_filler( 'dayOfWeek' => Fixed => '' );
Which looks perfectly braindead :o(
:o(
The man page just says:
tick
Set checkbox marks
Syntax:
tick NAME VALUE(s)
If no value is given, all boxes are checked.
untick
Remove checkbox marks
Syntax:
untick NAME VALUE(s)
If no value is given, all marks are removed.
and nothing else mentions checkboxes...
When I check the first two boxes in Firefox and look at the result using LiveHTTPHeaders I see this is being posted:
... &dayOfWeek=SUN&dayOfWeek=MON& ...
Is it possible to get WWW::Mechanize to send the same?
I tried this:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use WWW::Mechanize;
use WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller;
my $agent = WWW::Mechanize->new( autocheck => 1 );
my $formfiller = WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller->new();
$agent->form(1) if $agent->forms and scalar @{$agent->forms};
$agent->get('http://server/page_with_form/');
$agent->form(1) if $agent->forms and scalar @{$agent->forms};
$agent->form_number(1);
$formfiller->add_filler( 'dayOfWeek' => Fixed => 'SUN' );
$formfiller->fill_form($agent->current_form);
$agent->click('');
and I get this back:
$ ./try.pl
Illegal value 'SUN' for field 'dayOfWeek' at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/
+5.8.0/WWW/Mechanize/FormFiller.pm line 124
Lovely! :o(
If I get cheeky and try something like:
$formfiller->add_filler( 'dayOfWeek' => 'SUN' => 'on' );
I get:
$ ./try.pl
Can't locate WWW/Mechanize/FormFiller/Value/SUN.pm in @INC (@INC conta
+ins:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .)
at (eval 23) line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 23) line 2.
WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::load_value_class('SUN') called at
+/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/WWW/Mechanize/FormFiller.pm line 65
WWW::Mechanize::FormFiller::add_filler('WWW::Mechanize::FormFi
+ller=HASH(0x995ebdc)','dayOfWeek','SUN','on')
called at ./try.pl line 30
GRRR!!!
what am I doing wrong?
Is it to do with bug #2700: Set/Reset multiple checkboxes?
Or is the bad HTML making WWW::Mechanize / WWW::Mechanize::Shell bork?
(that's kind of what it looks like to me)
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