Haya, this is still lingering?

Solutions:

1. If the message reported is in a popup generated from alert() or a wrapper around alert() you can do the following

var alertDlg = driver.switchTo().alert();
var text = alertDlg.getText();

text will now have the file name and you can strip the file name from there

2. If the message is generated from a <div> (Most likely), you can manual "Inspect Element" and get the id of the div and do it a couple of
times more to make sure it is static. Then you can do this:

var text = document.getElementById('idOfBox').innerHTML;
Then again you can strip the file name out of text.

Steve

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From: "Bwana Lawi" <mail2lawi@gmail.com>
To: "Skunkworks forum" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke>
Sent: Domingo, 22 de Diciembre 2013 22:17:46
Subject: [Skunkworks] Fwd:  Javascript Question

Hi Joseph,

From your explanation, and several internet searches, it looks like what I am looking for is not possible/doable :(

As I mentioned, this is a webapp running on jboss. All the user does is click on an option. 

For instance, a simple report showing list of countries:

When the user clicks on Print to Server, the request is sent back to the reporting server and a physical file is created in a directory on the server. Then the response below is sent to the user:

All I want is to access the COUNTRY.txt from js. Vanilla js, not ajax. It's not possible to recreate the variables/parameters being sent to the jboss server classes. NB: There are 2 servers at play here: jboss (middleware) and the reporting server.

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Joseph Wayodi <jwayodi@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey,

Let me assume that you're using AJAX, and not doing an actual form submit [1].

First of all, we do not know all of what is returned when you send the
HTTP request. There seems to be a JavaScript function that is handling
the response, by only displaying "Report printed successfully:
abcd.txt" in the popup window. Did you write this function? And can
you modify it? If you can, then this is where you should put the code
to handle the response to do whatever you want, assuming the HTTP
response includes all the data you need.

For reference, check this out:
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/AJAX/Getting_Started>.

[1] <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLFormElement.submit>

Joseph.

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 3:59 PM, Bwana Lawi <mail2lawi@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Steve,
>
> I am actually interested in the first part of your answer. The use of ajax
> to get the contents of the response.
>
> The response, in this case, "Report printed successfully: abcd.txt" comes as
> the body of the popup window.
>
> Meaning I somehow have to access that window and read the content.
> Extracting the filename string is easy, dont worry about that
>
>

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