Can't use = sign in URL.

[JimJamie]

It seems to stop looking at the first equal sign.
Is there a way to rewrite the equals sign and get the same result?
I have something like this in my properties file.

#url=http://FooBar.com/Portal/quote?source=club&clubcode=412&state=CA&zipcode=90210

[Željko Filipin]

How is this related to Watir? I have no idea what you are talking about. Moar context, please. :)

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[Jim Bailey]

I'm using Watir with Ruby 1.86.

I have a properties file that I point to when I fire up a Watir script.

properties = TemplateProperties.new("../properties/template_properties.txt")

Then it uses this:

b.goto(properties.getUrl)

to pull the correct url.  I use several.

When I attempt to fire up a Watir script I do not get the website that I'm looking for when I use the url in my previous (original) post, given to me today to test with.

When I copy and paste the url into the browser address bar it works fine.

When I copy and paste the url into the browser address bar, up to the first = sign I get the same result as when I try to fire it up in Watir.

So, I'm pretty sure Watir/Ruby interprets the = as something else. (like, oh this must be a new row)

I did some research before I posted.
Someone else had a similar issue where the equals sign was replaced with something like %3D. It worked for them, not for me.

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[Dan]

I think you're going to want to look into using yaml instead of flat text files.  You'll want to start by looking here.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.8.7/libdoc/yaml/rdoc/YAML.html#method-c-parser

[Željko Filipin]

On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Jim Bailey <jbail...@gmail.com> wrote:

b.goto(properties.getUrl)

Add this before above line:

p properties.getUrl

That will display the contents of the variable. That is always helpful when debugging.

The magic word is probably URL encoding[1].

Something like this should fix the problem:

b.goto(URI.escape(properties.getUrl))

More information: http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib-1.9.3/libdoc/uri/rdoc/URI/Escape.html#method-i-escape

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[Jim Bailey]

For now, can I forget about the properties file, and have the Watir script put the url directly in the address bar?

If that is possible I'll need the commands to do so.

I got nowhere with the links you sent.

When I add p properties.getUrl to my script the output is there minus anything to the right of the left most equal sign.

Turns from this:

http://FooBar.com/AP/quote?source=club&aaaclubcode212&state=CA&zipcode=90210

To:

http://FooBar.com/AP/quote?source

So it is ignoring all the the right of the equals sign as I expected.

 

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[John Fitisoff]

I used to test a Java app and as part of that I'd read in the app's properties because I used a few of them. It's not too hard to write something once you get comfortable with all of the string parsing methods. I just wrote this:

def read_properties(path)

  arr = File.read(path).split("\n")

  arr.each do |line|

    unless line.strip.index('#') == 0

      line.match(/(\S+)\s*=\s*(\S+)/)

      if $1 and $2

        Object.const_set($1.upcase, $2)

      end

    end

  end

end

But there are plenty of things you can grab off the web. This is a common problem. Just google ruby read properties for more, probably better solutions. There are probably areas where the one above will fail. 

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[Željko Filipin]

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Jim Bailey <jbail...@gmail.com> wrote:

For now, can I forget about the properties file, and have the Watir script put the url directly in the address bar?

Sure, try this:

b.goto(URI.escape "http://FooBar.com/Portal/quote?source=club&clubcode=412&state=CA&zipcode=90210")

or

b.goto "http://FooBar.com/Portal/quote?source=club&clubcode=412&state=CA&zipcode=90210"

 

Željko

[Jim Bailey]

Neither of those worked. For now I am using this:

b.goto(properties.getUrl.gsub("\n",'') + 'source=' + properties.getSource.gsub("\n",'') + '&' + 'xyzclubcode=' + properties.getxyzclubcode.gsub("\n",'') + '&' + 'state=' + properties.getState.gsub("\n",'') + '&' + 'zipcode=' + properties.getZipcode.gsub("\n",''))

With some changes to my .rb file.

And a reformatting of the .txt properties file to:

url=http://Foo.Bar.com/Portal/quote?
source=club
xyzclubcode=212
state=VA
zipcode=20109

I'll try to get back to this issue for a better answer.

The links you sent earlier were somewhat helpful but I could not figure out how to transform the information into usable commands.
I learned the %3D should replace the = sign.

[Super Kevy]

So if its breaking at the = sign then you are not encapsulating the
value as a string.
Something like this may be a low impact patch
myVar = '"' + url + '"'
puts myVar
or even
myVar = url.to_s
puts myVar

On Jun 6, 6:27 am, Jim Bailey <jbailey...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neither of those worked. For now I am using this:
>
> b.goto(properties.getUrl.gsub("\n",'') + 'source=' +
> properties.getSource.gsub("\n",'') + '&' + 'xyzclubcode=' +
> properties.getxyzclubcode.gsub("\n",'') + '&' + 'state=' +
> properties.getState.gsub("\n",'') + '&' + 'zipcode=' +
> properties.getZipcode.gsub("\n",''))
> With some changes to my .rb file.
>
> And a reformatting of the .txt properties file to:
>
> url=http://Foo.Bar.com/Portal/quote?
> source=club
> xyzclubcode=212
> state=VA
> zipcode=20109
>
> I'll try to get back to this issue for a better answer.
>
> The links you sent earlier were somewhat helpful but I could not figure out
> how to transform the information into usable commands.
> I learned the %3D should replace the = sign.
>

> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 6:38 AM, Željko Filipin <zeljko.fili...@gmail.com>wrote:

>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 5:52 PM, Jim Bailey <jbailey...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> For now, can I forget about the properties file, and have the Watir
> >> script put the url directly in the address bar?
>
> > Sure, try this:
>
> > b.goto(URI.escape "

> >http://FooBar.com/Portal/quote?source=club&clubcode=412&state=CA&zipc...<http://foobar.com/Portal/quote?source=club&clubcode=412&state=CA&zipc...>
> > ")
>
> > or
>
> > b.goto "
> >http://FooBar.com/Portal/quote?source=club&clubcode=412&state=CA&zipc...<http://foobar.com/Portal/quote?source=club&clubcode=412&state=CA&zipc...>
> > "
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> > Željko
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