translator question for a sites that require a form

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h.em65

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Jan 29, 2017, 5:45:00 AM1/29/17
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How can I deal with sites that require a form to be submitted when writing json test cases for translators?


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Sebastian Karcher

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Jan 29, 2017, 9:00:30 AM1/29/17
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It depends on the details, but usually forms are submitted using a POST
request, which you can use in translators with ZU.doPost.
Basic documentation here:
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators/coding#batch_saving
Examples e.g. in the Sage or Wiley translators

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Hanieh Emami

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Hello, 

Thanks for the response, but I'm still not sure how can I instruct the TEST RUNNER (Provo) to submit a form (send a POST request) rather than sending a GET request when writing TEST CASES for translators.
To be more clear, I'm trying to write some test cases for a translator targeting a website that posts back all queries to a single URL.
That said, unlike the translators you mentioned, it's not possible to build a URL directly pointing to the page I want to extract metadata from. So instead of specifying URLs with QueryString parameters, I'm looking for a way to send some predefined form encoded data to a specific URL for each test case item.

Any help is much appreciated



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On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Sebastian Karcher <bst...@gmx.de> wrote:
It depends on the details, but usually forms are submitted using a POST
request, which you can use in translators with ZU.doPost.
Basic documentation here:
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators/coding#batch_saving
Examples e.g. in the Sage or Wiley translators

hth,
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Philipp Zumstein

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Feb 1, 2017, 6:16:39 AM2/1/17
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The test cases in the translators are always GET request and I don't see any way to do the same with a POST request. You could save the output as a comment and describe how to search maybe?



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Sebastian Karcher

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Feb 1, 2017, 8:28:56 AM2/1/17
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Sorry, I misread your question. Just to be clear, what Philipp is saying
is that you currently can't write automated tests for sites that don't
have permanent URLs for individual items (and while I think it'd be
technically possible, I don't think we have any immediate plans to
implement it). Adding the JSON output in a comment is a nice way to give
later coders a sense of what the translator produced, but it's not
something we'd require for a submission.

On 02/01/2017 03:10 AM, Hanieh Emami wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Thanks for the response, but I'm still not sure how can I instruct the
> TEST RUNNER (Provo) to submit a form (send a POST request) rather than
> sending a GET request when writing TEST CASES for translators.
> To be more clear, I'm trying to write some test cases for a translator
> targeting a website that posts back all queries to a single URL.
> That said, unlike the translators you mentioned, it's not possible to
> build a URL directly pointing to the page I want to extract metadata
> from. So instead of specifying URLs with QueryString parameters, I'm
> looking for a way to send some predefined form encoded data to a
> specific URL for each test case item.
>
> Any help is much appreciated
>
>
>
>
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> On Sun, Jan 29, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Sebastian Karcher <bst...@gmx.de
> <mailto:bst...@gmx.de>> wrote:
>
> It depends on the details, but usually forms are submitted using a
> POST
> request, which you can use in translators with ZU.doPost.
> Basic documentation here:
> https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators/coding#batch_saving
> <https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators/coding#batch_saving>
> Examples e.g. in the Sage or Wiley translators
>
> hth,
> Sebastian
>
> On 01/29/2017 05:22 AM, h.em65 wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > How can I deal with sites that require a form to be submitted when
> > writing json test cases for translators?
> >
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> > thanks
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