I have an Angular app that's loading in content from an API through a Python (Django) proxy. The Angular app sits on a single Django template and fetches an object every time the user interacts with a control.
I need the URL to reflect this new object every time it changes.
For example:
http://domain.com/foo/bar/apples would bring up the apples object
http://domain.com/foo/bar/oranges would bring up the oranges object
I looked into $location which seems to do the trick, but I'm having trouble getting non-html5 browsers to do what I want.
When set $locationProvider to HTML5 mode everything is great on modern browsers
HTML5
/foo/bar/apples becomes /foo/bar/oranges/ GREAT!
However, on Non-HTML5
/foo/bar/apples becomes /#!/foo/bar/oranges/ Not-Great!
Since it looks like legacy browsers require a hashbang, I'd like to move that to the latter part of the url, like so /foo/bar/#!/oranges/
If I set $location.html5Mode to false, the hashbang appears on both modern and legacy browsers (/#!/foo/bar/oranges/), but I'd like modern browsers to have non-hashbang url
Thoughts?
I'm using Angular 1.2.9
My Config:
myApp.config(['$locationProvider', function ($locationProvider) {
$locationProvider.html5Mode(true);
}]);
On slug change, I'm calling the $locationProvider like so:
$location.path('foo/bar/' + slug);
Robot Framework Version 2.8.3
Selenium2Library Version 1.4
The problem which I am facing is with regards to the controls used in the application under test.
Unlike the conventional coding technique of having the controls with ids, my application has been developed by using 'CSS - Class'.
For example a button is coded as :
where the "btn-do-login" is defined in CSS file.
Here when I enter the ids in the username and password fields, I write Click Element btn-do-login
The keyword clicks on the element but does not submits the data to the host as in the case of Submit Form keyword.
Also to mention, the application does not have any form in it. Instead there is a Div with reference to a CSS class.
Following is the entire hierarchy:
<div class="login-form">
<div class="form-element-username"> … </div>
<div class="form-element-password"> … </div>
<div id="btn-do-login" class="wbutton-login"> … </div>
</div>
Any help on how to Post data to the host is appreciated.
Also, please note that, now on entering manually the access credentials on this WebPage opened by Webdriver, and trying to submit it manually still gives me the javascript error and the page is not submitted. For logging in the application manually I need to close the browser instance (opened by Webdriver) and open a new instance manually for manual logging.
And Lastly just wanted to ask whether Selenium2Library supports HTML5 ?
This is what I have done till now.
> Login With Valid Credentials
>> Input Text ${id_login_email} ${country}
>>> Input Text ${id_login_password} ${PASSWD}
>>>> CLick Element btn-do-login
Here the variables have been defined in separate python files and have been imported as VARIABLE in the setting table.
Thanks in advance.
--Raj Sarodaya
After doing quite a few trail and errors I was able to make this work.
The problem with submit was that the javascripts were not loading as my system was behind proxy and I had not set the proxy ip in the browsers.
For many other websites proxy was not required contrary to this case hence it took some time for me to correct it.
:P
I'm trying to change the url in my app from "http://www.test.com/foo" to "http://www.test.com/bar+someVariable" (somevariable is a string that I recieve from an http request inside bar's controller) using history.pushState() . In my routes I enabled html5mode and everything works fine. I'm also using location.path() to switch between views and controllers as instructed in the docs. Now once the app switches view and controller I added history.pushState(null,null,"/bar"+somevariable) to "/bar"'s controller. Everything works and the url is updated but in the console I receive the "10 $digest() iterations reached. Aborting!" error. I suspect that activating the history.pushState function is somehow interfering with angular's $location or $route service.
What is the correct way to use history.pushState() within angular without receiving the $digest error?
By the way I'm using angular 1.0.3
Thanks ahead,
Gidon
Change the path with
$location.path('/newValue')
See: http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/dev_guide.services.$location
It is hard to know for sure without seeing the relevant source, but this is a common issue in older versions of IE (8 and 9 mostly I think). The solution that worked for me a few weeks ago when I encountered this (and may work for you if you're using IE) was changing my anchor tags in my navigation.
I had:
what fixed it:
Is it possible to have a print option that bypasses the print dialog?
I am working on a closed system and would like to be able to pre-define the print dialog settings; and process the print as soon as I click the button.
From what I am reading, the way to do this varies for each browser. For example, IE would use ActiveX. Chrome / Firefox would require extensions. Based on this, it appears I'll have to write an application in C++ that can handle parameters passed by the browser to auto print with proper formatting (for labels). Then i'll have to rewrite it as an extension for Chrome / Firefox. End result being that users on our closed system will have to download / install these features depending on which browser they use.
I'm hoping there is another way to go about this, but this task most likely violates browser security issues.
I ended up implementing a custom application that works very similar to the Nexus Mod Manager. I wrote a C# application that registers a custom Application URI Scheme. Here's how it works:
User clicks "Print" on the website.
Website links user to "CustomURL://Print/{ID}
Application is launched by windows via the custom uri scheme.
Application communicates with the pre-configured server to confirm the print request and in my case get the actual print command.
The application then uses the C# RawPrinterHelper class to send commands directly to the printer.
This approach required an initial download from the user, and a single security prompt from windows when launching the application the first time. I also implemented some Javascript magic to make it detect whether the print job was handled or not. If it wasn't it asks them to download the application.
I know this is a late reply, but here's a solution I'm using. I have only used this with IE, and have not tested it with any other browser.
This Sub Print blow effectively replaces the default print function.
<script language='VBScript'>
Sub Print()
OLECMDID_PRINT = 6
OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER = 2
OLECMDEXECOPT_PROMPTUSER = 1
call WB.ExecWB(OLECMDID_PRINT, OLECMDEXECOPT_DONTPROMPTUSER,1)
End Sub
document.write "<object ID='WB' WIDTH=0 HEIGHT=0 CLASSID='CLSID:8856F961-340A-11D0-A96B-00C04FD705A2'></object>"
</script>
Then use Javascript's window.print(); ties to a hyperlink or a button to execute the print command.
If you want to automatically print when the page loads, then put the code below near tag.
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload=function(){self.print();}
</script>
I am writing this answer for firefox browser.
Open File > Page Setup
Make all the headers and footers blank
Set the margins to 0 (zero)
In the address bar of Firefox, type about:config
Search for print.always_print_silent and double click it
Change it from false to true
This lets you skip the Print pop up box that comes up, as well as skipping the step where you have to click OK, automatically printing the right sized slip.
If print.always_print_silent does not come up
Right click on a blank area of the preference window
Select new > Boolean
Enter "print.always_print_silent" as the name (without quotes)
Click OK
Select true for the value
You may also want to check what is listed for print.print_printer
You may have to choose Generic/Text Only (or whatever your receipt printer might be named)
The general answer is: NO you cannot do this in the general case but there some cases where you might do it.
Check
http://justtalkaboutweb.com/2008/05/09/javascript-print-bypass-printer-dialog-in-ie-and-firefox/
If you where allowed to do such a thing anyway, it would be a security issue since a malware script could silently sent printing jobs to visitor's printer.
I found a awesome plugin by Firefox which solve this issue. try seamless printing plugin of firefox which will print something from a web application without showing a print dialog.
Open Firefox
Search addon name seamless printing and install it
After successful installation the printing window will get bypassed when user wants to print anything.
I was able to solve the problem with this library: html2pdf.js (https://github.com/eKoopmans/html2pdf.js)
Considering that you have access to it, you could do something like that (taken from the github repository):
var element = document.getElementById('element-to-print');
html2pdf(element);
Does anyone know of an extension for Firefox, or a script or some other mechanism, that can monitor one or more local files. Firefox would auto-refresh or otherwise update its canvas when it detected a change (of timestamp) in the files(s).
For editing CSS, it would be ideal if just the CSS could be reloaded, rather than a full HTML re-render.
Effectively it would enable similar behaviour to Firebug with its dynamic HTML/CSS editing, only through external files.
Live.js
From the website:
How?
Just include Live.js and it will monitor the current page including local CSS and Javascript by sending consecutive HEAD requests to the server. Changes to CSS will be applied dynamically and HTML or Javascript changes will reload the page. Try it!
Where?
Live.js works in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE6+ until proven otherwise. Live.js is independent of the development framework or language you use, whether it be Ruby, Handcraft, Python, Django, NET, Java, Php, Drupal, Joomla or what-have-you.
It has the huge benefit of working with IETester, dynamically refreshing each open IE tab.
Try it out by adding the following to your <head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://livejs.com/live.js"></script>
Have a look at FileWatcher extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/filewatcher/
it's a WebExtension, so it works with the latest Firefox
it has a native app (to be installed locally) that monitors watched files for changes using native OS calls (no polling!) and notifies the WebExtension to let it reload the web page
reload is driven by rules: a rule contains the page URL (with regular expression support) and its included/excluded local source files
open source: https://github.com/coolsoft-ita/filewatcher
DISCLAIMER: I'm the author of the extension ;)
I would recommend livejs
But it has following Advantages and Disadvantages
Advantages:
1. Easy setup
2. Works seamlessly on different browsers (Live.js works in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE6+)
3. Don't add irritating interval for refreshing browser specially when you want to debug along with designing
4. Only refreshing when you save change ctrl + S
5. Directly saves CSS etc from firebug I have not used that feature but read on their site http://livejs.com/ that they support it too!!!
Disadvantages:
1. It will not work on file protocol file:///C:/Users/Admin/Desktop/livejs/live.html
2. You need to have server to run it like http://localhost
3. You have to remove it while deploying on staging/production
4. Doesn't serves CDN I have tried cheating & applying direct link http://livejs.com/live.js but it will not work you have to download and keep on local to work.
Xrefresh with firebug.
Firefox has an extension called mozRepl.
Emacs can plug into this, with moz-reload-on-save-mode.
when it's set up, saving the file forces a refresh of the browser window.
There are some IDE's that contain this ability (They'll have a pane within them or some other means to auto-refresh a page on save).
If you want to do this yourself a quick hack is to set the meta refresh on the page to a low value - one or two seconds.
# Will refresh the page content every second
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1" />
You could just place a javascript interval on your page, have it query a local script which checks the last date modified of the css file, and refreshes it if it changed.
jQuery Example:
var modTime = 0;
setInterval(function(){
$.post("isModified.php", {"file":"main.css", "time":modTime}, function(rst) {
if (rst.time != modTime) {
modTime = rst.time;
// reload style tag
$("head link[rel='stylesheet']:eq(0)").remove();
$("head").prepend($(document.createElement("link")).attr({
"rel":"stylesheet",
"href":"http://sstatic.net/mso/all.css?v=4372"
})
);
}
});
}, 5000);
Browsersync can do this from the server side / outside of the browser.
This can achieve more repeatable results / things that don't require so much clicking.
This will serve a page and refresh on change
cd static_content
browser-sync start --server --files .
It also allows a scripting mode.
This is certainly hacky, but if you want to work locally without making any external request (to live.js, for example), or run any local server, I think this might be useful. This is not specific to web development, you can adopt similar strategy to any other workflow.
You will need two tiny tools (which are present in almost all distribution repos): inotify-tools and xdotool.
First get the ID of your Firefox and your editor window using xdotool.
$ xdotool search --name "Mozilla Firefox"
60817411
60817836
$ xdotool search --name "Pluma" # Pluma is my editor
94371842
Depending on the number of processes running, you will get one or more window ID. Use xdotool windowactivate <ID> to know which one you want (the focus changes to the respective window).
Use inotifywait -e close_write to monitor changes to your local file and when you save the file using your editor, change focus to your browser, reload xdotool key CTRL+R and focus back to your editor. This is so instantaneous you will not notice nothing.
Also, inotifywait exits on change, so you might have to do it in a loop. Here is a minimum working example (in Bash in your working directory).
while /usr/bin/true
do
inotifywait -e close_write index.html;
xdotool windowactivate 60917411; # Switch to Firefox
xdotool key CTRL+R; # Reload Firefox
xdotool windowactivate 94371842 # Switch back to Pluma
done
You can use inotifywait to watch for the entire directory or some selected files in your directory.
You can write a script that can automate is easily.
This works on Linux (I've tested this on Void Linux.)
You can use live.js with a tampermonkey script to avoid having to include https://livejs.com/live.js in your HTML file.
// ==UserScript==
// #name Auto reload
// #author weirane
// #version 0.1
// #match http://127.0.0.1/*
// #grant none
// ==/UserScript==
(function() {
'use strict';
if (Number(window.location.port) === 8000) {
const script = document.createElement('script');
script.src = 'https://livejs.com/live.js';
document.body.appendChild(script);
}
})();
With this tampermonkey script, the live.js script will be automatically inserted to pages whose address matches http://127.0.0.1:8000/*. You can change the port according to your need.
I think that you can solve it by using some ajax requests after a determinate interval. You can do a request to CSS files and then if you don't get the "not modified" header you delete your css and load it again. For dynamic files you do a request and store the response and then every time you make a request to that file you compare the response to the latest.