Watij on appengine

[Phil McDonnell]

Has anyone used Watij on appengine?  This is a library that runs a browser locally in order to automate filling out fields in a webpage.

I just tried using it from a jsp servlet to test and it failed because it calls some privileged methods to run the browser. Has anyone gotten it to work? Anyone know if it'll work in regular java if I trigger it via a task queue instead of a jsp?

Thanks,

Phil

[Phil McDonnell]

As a follow up, would htmlunit be a better choice for web scraping / automation within App Engine?

[Ernesto Oltra]

I've used HtmlUnit before. It has a nice integration with the restricted environment of AppEngine. It works.

[Phil McDonnell]

I tried HtmlUnit too, but hit what I believe is a bug stopping it from working with AppEngine. Have others not his the issue with jsx cookies described here?

http://old.nabble.com/%22Exception-invoking-jsxFunction_send%22-when-using-NicelyResynchronizingAjaxController-in-Google-App-Engine-environment-td32076273.html

I is apparently an appengine bug from here: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=4784

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:12 AM, Ernesto Oltra <ernest...@gmail.com> wrote:

I've used HtmlUnit before. It has a nice integration with the restricted environment of AppEngine. It works.

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[Ernesto Oltra]

I use my own classes for cookie management, so I didn't found that error. Subclassing the manager and re-defining getPort() as mentioned in the issue doesn't work?

2011/12/15 Phil McDonnell <phil.a.m...@gmail.com>