Sending data to the Test script

Ian1971

I am writing a script that logs into our website, navigates to an "add product" page and then adds a product. I then want it to call some other pages based on the productid of the product just created.
I am wondering how other people are solving this problem?

My current solution is to write out some text to the httpresponse within my app (hidden as an html comment) and then look for that text in the Reponse within the test script.
I am interested to know what other ways there are of doing this, that might be better?

Cheers
Ian

Neil Davidson

Ian,

I think you've got a good way of doing it there. Other options would be to put it in an HTTP Header or a cookie.

- Neil

Ian1971

How do I read cookies in the test script? I can see a cookiecontainer object but that only has two methods, clear and SetCookie?

Tom Harris

Hi Ian,

I'm afraid that the CookieCollection is primarily meant for internal use as it maintains the state of the script as it is run. However, if you set a cookie you can easily access it from the http header SetCookie.

Thanks,

Tom

Ian1971

Thanks for that info. I've got it working nicely using custom http headers

Cheers
Ian