| To: | bug-www-mechanize [...] rt.cpan.org |
| Subject: | Fw: new: TW::Mechanize::stuff_fields() |
| From: | ALester [...] flr.follett.com |
| Date: | Sun, 8 Jan 2006 12:51:42 -0600 |
Mike O'Regan/flr wrote on 03/30/2005 05:05:42 PM:
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> All,
>
> There's a new tool in TW::Mechanize to help find places where the
> app allows the user to enter more data than will fit in the
> corresponding database column: stuff_fields(). It maxes out all
> the fields in the current form so that you don't have to hard-code
> long strings into tests. Try it out when you are next
> modifying/writing a test that fills in a form. The interface:
>
> =head2 $agent->stuff_inputs( [\%options] )
>
> Finds all free-text input fields (text, textarea, and password) in the
> current form and fills them to their maximum length in hopes of finding
> application code that can't handle it. Fields with no maximum length
> and all textarea fields are set to 66000 bytes, which will often be
> enough to overflow the data's eventual recepticle.
>
> There is no return value.
>
> If there is no current form then nothing is done.
>
> The hashref $options can contain the following keys:
>
> ignore: hash value is hashref of field names to not touch, e.g.:
>
> $mechanize_object->stuff_inputs( {
> ignore => { 'specialfield1'=>1, 'specialfield2'=>1 }
> } );
>
> fill: hash value is default string to use when stuffing fields. Copies
> of the string are repeated up to the max length of each field. E.g.:
>
> $mechanize_object->stuff_inputs( {
> fill => '@' # stuff all fields with something easy to recognize
> } );
>
> specs: hash value is arrayref of hashrefs with which you can pass
detailed
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>
> $mechanize_object->stuff_inputs( {
> specs=>{
> # some fields are datatype-constrained. It's most common to
> # want the field stuffed with valid data.
> 'widget_quantity' => { fill=>'9' },
> 'notes' => { maxlength=>2000 },
> }
> } );
>
> The specs allowed are 'fill' (use this fill for the field rather
> than the default)
> and 'maxlength' (use this as the field's maxlength instead of any
maxlength
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>
> =cut
>
> Mike O'Regan