| Subject: | Support for anonymous subroutines |
To use W::M::S for automated form testing, it's important to be able to generate unique field names. "Random" isn't quite what I'm looking for, because I don't want the randomness restricted to fix set of values.
Sys::UniqueID provides really unique strings. Support for something like that would be one way to go. (An option to specifiy the random string length would be ideal).
I also tried this:
autofill title Callback "'sub { 'Test '.`date` }"
This causes the shell to die, though:
Undefined subroutine &'sub { 'Test ::.`date` } called at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/WWW/Mechanize/FormFiller/Value/Callback.pm line 17.
It would be nice if it at least didn't die, and at best provided a documented technique for providing some in-line perl code like this.
I like the idea of this solution for filling in a field for testing, because it provides a human readable string, with a date that should make it "unique enough".
Thanks Max.