[IDE] Exporting ${variable} no longer working

[Ovidiu Dumitrescu]

Hello.

I am using Selenium IDE.

The following line in a test case:

<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=inboxfield</td>
 <td>${userID}</td>
</tr>

used to give the following result when exported to Ruby/Rspec/Webdriver:

@driver.find_element(:id, "inboxfield").send_keys userID

But suddenly, for some reason, it's now exporting:

@driver.find_element(:id, "inboxfield").send_keys "${userID}"

Is anyone else having this problem? How do I fix it?

Thank you for reading.

[Ovidiu Dumitrescu]

PS: This is happening with all export types, not just the Ruby example I gave. 

[Ovidiu Dumitrescu]

Ok. So now it's working on and off. With the same file and the same export oprion it's sometimes exporting the variable correctly and sometimes as ${userID}.

[JJan]

What OS/browser/version are you using?

[Ovidiu Dumitrescu]

On Saturday, April 30, 2016 at 12:20:38 AM UTC+3, JJan wrote:

What OS/browser/version are you using?

Win XP/FF 45.0.1 and also Win 8.1/FF 45.01

The problem seems to appear only when in the test case there is no 'store' function before I want to use the value of the variable.

I want to use a variable from another test case.

So I have 2 test cases:

1:

<tr>
 <td>store</td>
 <td>javascript{''+(new Date()).getTime()}</td>
 <td>userID</td>
</tr>

2:

<tr>
 <td>type</td>
 <td>id=inboxfield</td>
 <td>${userID}</td>
</tr>

This second test case sometimes gets exported correctly and sometimes not.

[Ovidiu Dumitrescu]

I figured it out in the meantime.

The default export js does not cover this case.

It needs to declare a variable before using it. I did this by adding a line in the following code inside the xlateArgument function:

else if ((r = /\$\{/.exec(value))) {
    var regexp = /\$\{(.*?)\}/g;
    var lastIndex = 0;
    while (r2 = regexp.exec(value)) {
      var key = xlateKeyVariable(r2[1]);

the line:

addDeclaredVar(''+r2[1]);

The corrected code:

else if ((r = /\$\{/.exec(value))) {
    var regexp = /\$\{(.*?)\}/g;
    var lastIndex = 0;
    while (r2 = regexp.exec(value)) {
      addDeclaredVar(''+r2[1]);
      var key = xlateKeyVariable(r2[1]);