Classes for testing http server systems. Each test session should begin by creating a {@link com.meterware.httpunit.WebConversation WebConversation} to which it should submit an initial {@link com.meterware.httpunit.GetMethodWebRequest http request} using the {@link com.meterware.httpunit.WebConversation#getResponse getResponse} method. With each subsequent step, it will typically examine the response either textually or as a DOM, and create new requests based on either submitting a form or clicking on a link.

Installation

The package depends on JTidy, an HTML parser/validator. The jtidy.jar must be in the class path ahead of any other implementation of the DOM classes. In addition, unit tests will require JUnit as well.

Example

In the following code, a web conversation is started and an initial request sent. The program then prints out the response and extracts the first form (the login form) from it. After setting the name parameter to the desired value, it submits the form and prints the response.

import com.meterware.httpunit.*;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;

import org.xml.sax.*;

public class Example {


    public static void main( String[] params ) {
        try {
            WebRequest          request;
            WebResponse         response;
            WebConversation     conversation = new WebConversation();
            
            request = new GetMethodWebRequest( "http://www.meterware.com/servlet/TopSecret" );
            response = conversation.getResponse( request );
            System.out.println( response );

            WebForm loginForm = response.getForms()[0];

            request = loginForm.getRequest();
            request.setParameter( "name", "master" );
            response = conversation.getResponse( request );
            System.out.println( response );

        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println( "Exception: " + e );
        }
    }
}

Please direct any questions to Russell Gold.