What the heck is the bot.dom?

[James Davis]

I have been reviewing the WebDriver javascript trunk have seen
goog.require('bot.dom'); in a few of the files. What the heck is the
bot.dom? Where can I view the source file?

sincerely,

James Davis

[Daniel Wagner-Hall]

We heavily use the Google Closure compiler and libraries [1].
goog.require('x') signifies to the compiler that the file which
contains goog.provide('x') must be included, and it will provide a
definition for x.

Our bot namespace lives at $TRUNK/javascript/atoms. bot.dom is
accordingly defined in $TRUNK/javascript/atoms/dom.js

We also have tests for the bot namespace at $TRUNK/javascript/atoms/
test - they can be run by opening the html file in your browser you
want to test in; for some of the tests, they need to actually be run
from a host, rather than a file:// URL; there are instructions for
this, as well as more information, at https://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/AutomationAtoms

Hope this


1: https://code.google.com/closure/

[James Davis]

Thank you for your help Daniel.