python-zope.testbrowser 4.0.2-1 / usr / share / pyshared / zope / testbrowser / README.txt

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Detailed Documentation
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Different Browsers
------------------

HTTP Browser
~~~~~~~~~~~~

The ``zope.testbrowser.browser`` module exposes a ``Browser`` class that
simulates a web browser similar to Mozilla Firefox or IE.

    >>> from zope.testbrowser.browser import Browser
    >>> browser = Browser()

This version of the browser object can be used to access any web site just as
you would do using a normal web browser.

WSGI Test Browser
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

General usage
+++++++++++++

There is also a special version of the ``Browser`` class which uses
`WebTest`_ and can be used to do functional testing of WSGI
applications. It can be imported from ``zope.testbrowser.wsgi``:

    >>> from zope.testbrowser.wsgi import Browser
    >>> from wsgiref.simple_server import demo_app
    >>> browser = Browser('http://localhost/', wsgi_app=demo_app)
    >>> print browser.contents
    Hello world!
    ...

.. _`WebTest`: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/WebTest

To use this browser you have to:

  * use the `wsgi` extra of the ``zope.testbrowser`` egg,

You can also use it with zope layers by:

  * write a subclass of ``zope.testbrowser.wsgi.Layer`` and override the
    ``make_wsgi_app`` method,

  * use an instance of the class as the test layer of your test.

Example:

    >>> import zope.testbrowser.wsgi
    >>> class SimpleLayer(zope.testbrowser.wsgi.Layer):
    ...     def make_wsgi_app(self):
    ...         return simple_app

Where ``simple_app`` is the callable of your WSGI application.

Testing a Zope 2/Zope 3/Bluebream WSGI application
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

When testing a Zope 2/Zope 3/Bluebream WSGI application you should wrap your
WSGI application under test into
``zope.testbrowser.wsgi.AuthorizationMiddleware`` as all these application
servers expect basic authentication headers to be base64 encoded. This
middleware handles this for you.

Example when using the layer:

    >>> import zope.testbrowser.wsgi
    >>> class ZopeSimpleLayer(zope.testbrowser.wsgi.Layer):
    ...     def make_wsgi_app(self):
    ...         return zope.testbrowser.wsgi.AuthorizationMiddleware(simple_app)

There is also a BrowserLayer in `zope.app.wsgi.testlayer`_ which does this
for you and includes a ``TransactionMiddleware``, too, which could be handy
when testing a ZODB based application.

.. _`zope.app.wsgi.testlayer` : http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zope.app.wsgi


Bowser Usage
------------

We will test this browser against a WSGI test application:

    >>> from zope.testbrowser.ftests.wsgitestapp import WSGITestApplication
    >>> wsgi_app = WSGITestApplication()

An initial page to load can be passed to the ``Browser`` constructor:

    >>> browser = Browser('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/simple.html', wsgi_app=wsgi_app)
    >>> browser.url
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/simple.html'

The browser can send arbitrary headers; this is helpful for setting the
"Authorization" header or a language value, so that your tests format values
the way you expect in your tests, if you rely on zope.i18n locale-based
formatting or a similar approach.

    >>> browser.addHeader('Authorization', 'Basic mgr:mgrpw')
    >>> browser.addHeader('Accept-Language', 'en-US')

An existing browser instance can also `open` web pages:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/simple.html')
    >>> browser.url
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/simple.html'

Once you have opened a web page initially, best practice for writing
testbrowser doctests suggests using 'click' to navigate further (as discussed
below), except in unusual circumstances.

The test browser complies with the IBrowser interface; see
``zope.testbrowser.interfaces`` for full details on the interface.

    >>> from zope.testbrowser import interfaces
    >>> from zope.interface.verify import verifyObject
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IBrowser, browser)
    True


Page Contents
-------------

The contents of the current page are available:

    >>> print browser.contents
    <html>
      <head>
        <title>Simple Page</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <h1>Simple Page</h1>
      </body>
    </html>

Making assertions about page contents is easy.

    >>> '<h1>Simple Page</h1>' in browser.contents
    True

Utilizing the doctest facilities, it also possible to do:

    >>> browser.contents
    '...<h1>Simple Page</h1>...'

Note: Unfortunately, ellipsis (...) cannot be used at the beginning of the
output (this is a limitation of doctest).



Checking for HTML
-----------------

Not all URLs return HTML.  Of course our simple page does:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/simple.html')
    >>> browser.isHtml
    True

But if we load an image (or other binary file), we do not get HTML:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/zope3logo.gif')
    >>> browser.isHtml
    False



HTML Page Title
----------------

Another useful helper property is the title:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/simple.html')
    >>> browser.title
    'Simple Page'

If a page does not provide a title, it is simply ``None``:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/notitle.html')
    >>> browser.title

However, if the output is not HTML, then an error will occur trying to access
the title:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/zope3logo.gif')
    >>> browser.title
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    BrowserStateError: not viewing HTML


Headers
-------

As you can see, the `contents` of the browser does not return any HTTP
headers.  The headers are accessible via a separate attribute, which is an
``httplib.HTTPMessage`` instance (httplib is a part of Python's standard
library):

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/simple.html')
    >>> browser.headers
    <httplib.HTTPMessage instance...>

The headers can be accessed as a string:

    >>> print browser.headers
    Status: 200 OK
    Content-Length: 123
    Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8

Or as a mapping:

    >>> browser.headers['content-type']
    'text/html;charset=utf-8'


Cookies
-------

When a Set-Cookie header is available, it can be found in the headers, as seen
above.  Here, we use a view that will make the server set cookies with the
values we provide.

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/set_cookie.html?name=foo&value=bar')
    >>> browser.headers['set-cookie'].replace(';', '')
    'foo=bar'

It is also available in the browser's ``cookies`` attribute.  This is
an extended mapping interface that allows getting, setting, and deleting the
cookies that the browser is remembering *for the current url*.  Here are
a few examples.

    >>> browser.cookies['foo']
    'bar'
    >>> browser.cookies.keys()
    ['foo']
    >>> browser.cookies.values()
    ['bar']
    >>> browser.cookies.items()
    [('foo', 'bar')]
    >>> 'foo' in browser.cookies
    True
    >>> 'bar' in browser.cookies
    False
    >>> len(browser.cookies)
    1
    >>> print(dict(browser.cookies))
    {'foo': 'bar'}
    >>> browser.cookies['sha'] = 'zam'
    >>> len(browser.cookies)
    2
    >>> sorted(browser.cookies.items())
    [('foo', 'bar'), ('sha', 'zam')]
    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/get_cookie.html')
    >>> print browser.headers.get('set-cookie')
    None
    >>> print browser.contents # server got the cookie change
    foo: bar
    sha: zam
    >>> sorted(browser.cookies.items())
    [('foo', 'bar'), ('sha', 'zam')]
    >>> browser.cookies.clearAll()
    >>> len(browser.cookies)
    0

Many more examples, and a discussion of the additional methods available, can
be found in cookies.txt.


Navigation and Link Objects
---------------------------

If you want to simulate clicking on a link, get the link and `click` on it.
In the `navigate.html` file there are several links set up to demonstrate the
capabilities of the link objects and their `click` method.

The simplest way to get a link is via the anchor text.  In other words
the text you would see in a browser (text and url searches are substring
searches):

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html')
    >>> browser.contents
    '...<a href="navigate.html?message=By+Link+Text">Link Text</a>...'
    >>> link = browser.getLink('Link Text')
    >>> link
    <Link text='Link Text'
      url='http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html?message=By+Link+Text'>

Link objects comply with the ILink interface.

    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.ILink, link)
    True

Links expose several attributes for easy access.

    >>> link.text
    'Link Text'
    >>> link.tag # links can also be image maps.
    'a'
    >>> link.url # it's normalized
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html?message=By+Link+Text'
    >>> link.attrs
    {'href': 'navigate.html?message=By+Link+Text'}

Links can be "clicked" and the browser will navigate to the referenced URL.

    >>> link.click()
    >>> browser.url
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html?message=By+Link+Text'
    >>> browser.contents
    '...Message: <em>By Link Text</em>...'

When finding a link by its text, whitespace is normalized.

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html')
    >>> browser.contents
    '...> Link Text \n    with     Whitespace\tNormalization (and parens) </...'
    >>> link = browser.getLink('Link Text with Whitespace Normalization '
    ...                        '(and parens)')
    >>> link
    <Link text='Link Text with Whitespace Normalization (and parens)'...>
    >>> link.text
    'Link Text with Whitespace Normalization (and parens)'
    >>> link.click()
    >>> browser.url
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html?message=By+Link+Text+with+Normalization'
    >>> browser.contents
    '...Message: <em>By Link Text with Normalization</em>...'

When a link text matches more than one link, by default the first one is
chosen. You can, however, specify the index of the link and thus retrieve a
later matching link:

    >>> browser.getLink('Link Text')
    <Link text='Link Text' ...>

    >>> browser.getLink('Link Text', index=1)
    <Link text='Link Text with Whitespace Normalization (and parens)' ...>

Note that clicking a link object after its browser page has expired will
generate an error.

    >>> link.click()
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    ExpiredError

You can also find the link by its URL,

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html')
    >>> browser.contents
    '...<a href="navigate.html?message=By+URL">Using the URL</a>...'

    >>> browser.getLink(url='?message=By+URL').click()
    >>> browser.url
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html?message=By+URL'
    >>> browser.contents
    '...Message: <em>By URL</em>...'

or its id:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html')
    >>> browser.contents
    '...<a href="navigate.html?message=By+Id"
    id="anchorid">By Anchor Id</a>...'

    >>> browser.getLink(id='anchorid').click()
    >>> browser.url
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html?message=By+Id'
    >>> browser.contents
    '...Message: <em>By Id</em>...'

You thought we were done here? Not so quickly.  The `getLink` method also
supports image maps, though not by specifying the coordinates, but using the
area's id:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html')
    >>> link = browser.getLink(id='zope3')
    >>> link.tag
    'area'
    >>> link.click()
    >>> browser.url
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html?message=Zope+3+Name'
    >>> browser.contents
    '...Message: <em>Zope 3 Name</em>...'

Getting a nonexistent link raises an exception.

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html')
    >>> browser.getLink('This does not exist')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    LinkNotFoundError

A convenience method is provided to follow links; this uses the same
arguments as `getLink`, but clicks on the link instead of returning the
link object.

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html')
    >>> browser.contents
    '...<a href="navigate.html?message=By+Link+Text">Link Text</a>...'
    >>> browser.follow('Link Text')
    >>> browser.url
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html?message=By+Link+Text'
    >>> browser.contents
    '...Message: <em>By Link Text</em>...'

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html')
    >>> browser.follow(url='?message=By+URL')
    >>> browser.url
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html?message=By+URL'
    >>> browser.contents
    '...Message: <em>By URL</em>...'

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html')
    >>> browser.follow(id='zope3')
    >>> browser.url
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/navigate.html?message=Zope+3+Name'
    >>> browser.contents
    '...Message: <em>Zope 3 Name</em>...'

Attempting to follow links that don't exist raises the same exception as
asking for the link object:

    >>> browser.follow('This does not exist')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    LinkNotFoundError


Other Navigation
----------------

Like in any normal browser, you can reload a page:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/simple.html')
    >>> browser.url
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/simple.html'
    >>> browser.reload()
    >>> browser.url
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/simple.html'

You can also go back:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/notitle.html')
    >>> browser.url
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/notitle.html'
    >>> browser.goBack()
    >>> browser.url
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/simple.html'


Controls
--------

One of the most important features of the browser is the ability to inspect
and fill in values for the controls of input forms.  To do so, let's first open
a page that has a bunch of controls:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/controls.html')


Obtaining a Control
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

You look up browser controls with the 'getControl' method.  The default first
argument is 'label', and looks up the form on the basis of any associated
label.

    >>> control = browser.getControl('Text Control')
    >>> control
    <Control name='text-value' type='text'>
    >>> browser.getControl(label='Text Control') # equivalent
    <Control name='text-value' type='text'>

If you request a control that doesn't exist, the code raises a LookupError:

    >>> browser.getControl('Does Not Exist')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    LookupError: label 'Does Not Exist'

If you request a control with an ambiguous lookup, the code raises an
AmbiguityError.

    >>> browser.getControl('Ambiguous Control')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    AmbiguityError: label 'Ambiguous Control' matches:
      <TextControl(ambiguous-control-name=First)>
      <TextControl(ambiguous-control-name=Second)>

This is also true if an option in a control is ambiguous in relation to
the control itself.

    >>> browser.getControl('Sub-control Ambiguity')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    AmbiguityError: label 'Sub-control Ambiguity' matches:
      <SelectControl(ambiguous-subcontrol=[*, ambiguous])>
      <Item name='ambiguous' id=None contents='Sub-control Ambiguity Exemplified' value='ambiguous' label='Sub-control Ambiguity Exemplified'>

Ambiguous controls may be specified using an index value.  We use the control's
value attribute to show the two controls; this attribute is properly introduced
below.

    >>> browser.getControl('Ambiguous Control', index=0)
    <Control name='ambiguous-control-name' type='text'>
    >>> browser.getControl('Ambiguous Control', index=0).value
    'First'
    >>> browser.getControl('Ambiguous Control', index=1).value
    'Second'
    >>> browser.getControl('Sub-control Ambiguity', index=0)
    <ListControl name='ambiguous-subcontrol' type='select'>
    >>> browser.getControl('Sub-control Ambiguity', index=1).optionValue
    'ambiguous'

Label searches are against stripped, whitespace-normalized, no-tag versions of
the text. Text applied to searches is also stripped and whitespace normalized.
The search finds results if the text search finds the whole words of your
text in a label.  Thus, for instance, a search for 'Add' will match the label
'Add a Client' but not 'Address'.  Case is honored.

    >>> browser.getControl('Label Needs Whitespace Normalization')
    <Control name='label-needs-normalization' type='text'>
    >>> browser.getControl('label needs whitespace normalization')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    LookupError: label 'label needs whitespace normalization'
    >>> browser.getControl(' Label  Needs Whitespace    ')
    <Control name='label-needs-normalization' type='text'>
    >>> browser.getControl('Whitespace')
    <Control name='label-needs-normalization' type='text'>
    >>> browser.getControl('hitespace')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    LookupError: label 'hitespace'
    >>> browser.getControl('[non word characters should not confuse]')
    <Control name='non-word-characters' type='text'>

Multiple labels can refer to the same control (simply because that is possible
in the HTML 4.0 spec).

    >>> browser.getControl('Multiple labels really')
    <Control name='two-labels' type='text'>
    >>> browser.getControl('really are possible')
    <Control name='two-labels' type='text'>
    >>> browser.getControl('really') # OK: ambiguous labels, but not ambiguous control
    <Control name='two-labels' type='text'>

A label can be connected with a control using the 'for' attribute and also by
containing a control.

    >>> browser.getControl(
    ...     'Labels can be connected by containing their respective fields')
    <Control name='contained-in-label' type='text'>

Get also accepts one other search argument, 'name'.  Only one of 'label' and
'name' may be used at a time.  The 'name' keyword searches form field names.

    >>> browser.getControl(name='text-value')
    <Control name='text-value' type='text'>
    >>> browser.getControl(name='ambiguous-control-name')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    AmbiguityError: name 'ambiguous-control-name' matches:
      <TextControl(ambiguous-control-name=First)>
      <TextControl(ambiguous-control-name=Second)>
    >>> browser.getControl(name='does-not-exist')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    LookupError: name 'does-not-exist'
    >>> browser.getControl(name='ambiguous-control-name', index=1).value
    'Second'

Combining 'label' and 'name' raises a ValueError, as does supplying neither of
them.

    >>> browser.getControl(label='Ambiguous Control', name='ambiguous-control-name')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    ValueError: Supply one and only one of "label" and "name" as arguments
    >>> browser.getControl()
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    ValueError: Supply one and only one of "label" and "name" as arguments

Radio and checkbox fields are unusual in that their labels and names may point
to different objects: names point to logical collections of radio buttons or
checkboxes, but labels may only be used for individual choices within the
logical collection.  This means that obtaining a radio button by label gets a
different object than obtaining the radio collection by name.  Select options
may also be searched by label.

    >>> browser.getControl(name='radio-value')
    <ListControl name='radio-value' type='radio'>
    >>> browser.getControl('Zwei')
    <ItemControl name='radio-value' type='radio' optionValue='2' selected=True>
    >>> browser.getControl('One')
    <ItemControl name='multi-checkbox-value' type='checkbox' optionValue='1' selected=True>
    >>> browser.getControl('Tres')
    <ItemControl name='single-select-value' type='select' optionValue='3' selected=False>

Characteristics of controls and subcontrols are discussed below.


Control Objects
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Controls provide IControl.

    >>> ctrl = browser.getControl('Text Control')
    >>> ctrl
    <Control name='text-value' type='text'>
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IControl, ctrl)
    True

They have several useful attributes:

  - the name as which the control is known to the form:

    >>> ctrl.name
    'text-value'

  - the value of the control, which may also be set:

    >>> ctrl.value
    'Some Text'
    >>> ctrl.value = 'More Text'
    >>> ctrl.value
    'More Text'

  - the type of the control:

    >>> ctrl.type
    'text'

  - a flag describing whether the control is disabled:

    >>> ctrl.disabled
    False

  - and a flag to tell us whether the control can have multiple values:

    >>> ctrl.multiple
    False

Additionally, controllers for select, radio, and checkbox provide IListControl.
These fields have four other attributes and an additional method:

    >>> ctrl = browser.getControl('Multiple Select Control')
    >>> ctrl
    <ListControl name='multi-select-value' type='select'>
    >>> ctrl.disabled
    False
    >>> ctrl.multiple
    True
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IListControl, ctrl)
    True

  - 'options' lists all available value options.

    >>> ctrl.options
    ['1', '2', '3']

  - 'displayOptions' lists all available options by label.  The 'label'
    attribute on an option has precedence over its contents, which is why
    our last option is 'Third' in the display.

    >>> ctrl.displayOptions
    ['Un', 'Deux', 'Third']

  - 'displayValue' lets you get and set the displayed values of the control
    of the select box, rather than the actual values.

    >>> ctrl.value
    []
    >>> ctrl.displayValue
    []
    >>> ctrl.displayValue = ['Un', 'Deux']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue
    ['Un', 'Deux']
    >>> ctrl.value
    ['1', '2']

  - 'controls' gives you a list of the subcontrol objects in the control
    (subcontrols are discussed below).

    >>> ctrl.controls
    [<ItemControl name='multi-select-value' type='select' optionValue='1' selected=True>,
     <ItemControl name='multi-select-value' type='select' optionValue='2' selected=True>,
     <ItemControl name='multi-select-value' type='select' optionValue='3' selected=False>]

  - The 'getControl' method lets you get subcontrols by their label or their value.

    >>> ctrl.getControl('Un')
    <ItemControl name='multi-select-value' type='select' optionValue='1' selected=True>
    >>> ctrl.getControl('Deux')
    <ItemControl name='multi-select-value' type='select' optionValue='2' selected=True>
    >>> ctrl.getControl('Trois') # label attribute
    <ItemControl name='multi-select-value' type='select' optionValue='3' selected=False>
    >>> ctrl.getControl('Third') # contents
    <ItemControl name='multi-select-value' type='select' optionValue='3' selected=False>
    >>> browser.getControl('Third') # ambiguous in the browser, so useful
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    AmbiguityError: label 'Third' matches:
      <Item name='3' id=None contents='Tres' value='3' label='Third'>
      <Item name='3' id=None contents='Trois' value='3' label='Third'>
      <Item name='3' id='multi-checkbox-value-3' __label={'__text': 'Three\n        '} checked='checked' name='multi-checkbox-value' type='checkbox' id='multi-checkbox-value-3' value='3'>
      <Item name='3' id='radio-value-3' __label={'__text': ' Drei'} type='radio' name='radio-value' value='3' id='radio-value-3'>

Finally, submit controls provide ISubmitControl, and image controls provide
IImageSubmitControl, which extents ISubmitControl.  These both simply add a
'click' method.  For image submit controls, you may also provide a coordinates
argument, which is a tuple of (x, y).  These submit the forms, and are
demonstrated below as we examine each control individually.


ItemControl Objects
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

As introduced briefly above, using labels to obtain elements of a logical
radio button or checkbox collection returns item controls, which are parents.
Manipulating the value of these controls affects the parent control.

    >>> browser.getControl(name='radio-value').value
    ['2']
    >>> browser.getControl('Zwei').optionValue # read-only.
    '2'
    >>> browser.getControl('Zwei').selected
    True
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IItemControl, browser.getControl('Zwei'))
    True
    >>> browser.getControl('Ein').selected = True
    >>> browser.getControl('Ein').selected
    True
    >>> browser.getControl('Zwei').selected
    False
    >>> browser.getControl(name='radio-value').value
    ['1']
    >>> browser.getControl('Ein').selected = False
    >>> browser.getControl(name='radio-value').value
    []
    >>> browser.getControl('Zwei').selected = True

Checkbox collections behave similarly, as shown below.

Controls with subcontrols--


Various Controls
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The various types of controls are demonstrated here.

  - Text Control

    The text control we already introduced above.

  - Password Control

    >>> ctrl = browser.getControl('Password Control')
    >>> ctrl
    <Control name='password-value' type='password'>
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IControl, ctrl)
    True
    >>> ctrl.value
    'Password'
    >>> ctrl.value = 'pass now'
    >>> ctrl.value
    'pass now'
    >>> ctrl.disabled
    False
    >>> ctrl.multiple
    False

  - Hidden Control

    >>> ctrl = browser.getControl(name='hidden-value')
    >>> ctrl
    <Control name='hidden-value' type='hidden'>
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IControl, ctrl)
    True
    >>> ctrl.value
    'Hidden'
    >>> ctrl.value = 'More Hidden'
    >>> ctrl.disabled
    False
    >>> ctrl.multiple
    False

  - Text Area Control

    >>> ctrl = browser.getControl('Text Area Control')
    >>> ctrl
    <Control name='textarea-value' type='textarea'>
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IControl, ctrl)
    True
    >>> ctrl.value
    '        Text inside\n        area!\n      '
    >>> ctrl.value = 'A lot of\n text.'
    >>> ctrl.disabled
    False
    >>> ctrl.multiple
    False

  - File Control

    File controls are used when a form has a file-upload field.
    To specify data, call the add_file method, passing:

    - A file-like object

    - a content type, and

    - a file name

    >>> ctrl = browser.getControl('File Control')
    >>> ctrl
    <Control name='file-value' type='file'>
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IControl, ctrl)
    True
    >>> ctrl.value is None
    True
    >>> import cStringIO

    >>> ctrl.add_file(cStringIO.StringIO('File contents'),
    ...               'text/plain', 'test.txt')

    The file control (like the other controls) also knows if it is disabled
    or if it can have multiple values.

    >>> ctrl.disabled
    False
    >>> ctrl.multiple
    False

  - Selection Control (Single-Valued)

    >>> ctrl = browser.getControl('Single Select Control')
    >>> ctrl
    <ListControl name='single-select-value' type='select'>
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IListControl, ctrl)
    True
    >>> ctrl.value
    ['1']
    >>> ctrl.value = ['2']
    >>> ctrl.disabled
    False
    >>> ctrl.multiple
    False
    >>> ctrl.options
    ['1', '2', '3']
    >>> ctrl.displayOptions
    ['Uno', 'Dos', 'Third']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue
    ['Dos']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue = ['Tres']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue
    ['Third']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue = ['Dos']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue
    ['Dos']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue = ['Third']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue
    ['Third']
    >>> ctrl.value
    ['3']

  - Selection Control (Multi-Valued)

    This was already demonstrated in the introduction to control objects above.

  - Checkbox Control (Single-Valued; Unvalued)

    >>> ctrl = browser.getControl(name='single-unvalued-checkbox-value')
    >>> ctrl
    <ListControl name='single-unvalued-checkbox-value' type='checkbox'>
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IListControl, ctrl)
    True
    >>> ctrl.value
    True
    >>> ctrl.value = False
    >>> ctrl.disabled
    False
    >>> ctrl.multiple
    True
    >>> ctrl.options
    [True]
    >>> ctrl.displayOptions
    ['Single Unvalued Checkbox']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue
    []
    >>> verifyObject(
    ...     interfaces.IItemControl,
    ...     browser.getControl('Single Unvalued Checkbox'))
    True
    >>> browser.getControl('Single Unvalued Checkbox').optionValue
    'on'
    >>> browser.getControl('Single Unvalued Checkbox').selected
    False
    >>> ctrl.displayValue = ['Single Unvalued Checkbox']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue
    ['Single Unvalued Checkbox']
    >>> browser.getControl('Single Unvalued Checkbox').selected
    True
    >>> browser.getControl('Single Unvalued Checkbox').selected = False
    >>> browser.getControl('Single Unvalued Checkbox').selected
    False
    >>> ctrl.displayValue
    []
    >>> browser.getControl(
    ...     name='single-disabled-unvalued-checkbox-value').disabled
    True

  - Checkbox Control (Single-Valued, Valued)

    >>> ctrl = browser.getControl(name='single-valued-checkbox-value')
    >>> ctrl
    <ListControl name='single-valued-checkbox-value' type='checkbox'>
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IListControl, ctrl)
    True
    >>> ctrl.value
    ['1']
    >>> ctrl.value = []
    >>> ctrl.disabled
    False
    >>> ctrl.multiple
    True
    >>> ctrl.options
    ['1']
    >>> ctrl.displayOptions
    ['Single Valued Checkbox']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue
    []
    >>> verifyObject(
    ...     interfaces.IItemControl,
    ...     browser.getControl('Single Valued Checkbox'))
    True
    >>> browser.getControl('Single Valued Checkbox').selected
    False
    >>> browser.getControl('Single Valued Checkbox').optionValue
    '1'
    >>> ctrl.displayValue = ['Single Valued Checkbox']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue
    ['Single Valued Checkbox']
    >>> browser.getControl('Single Valued Checkbox').selected
    True
    >>> browser.getControl('Single Valued Checkbox').selected = False
    >>> browser.getControl('Single Valued Checkbox').selected
    False
    >>> ctrl.displayValue
    []

  - Checkbox Control (Multi-Valued)

    >>> ctrl = browser.getControl(name='multi-checkbox-value')
    >>> ctrl
    <ListControl name='multi-checkbox-value' type='checkbox'>
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IListControl, ctrl)
    True
    >>> ctrl.value
    ['1', '3']
    >>> ctrl.value = ['1', '2']
    >>> ctrl.disabled
    False
    >>> ctrl.multiple
    True
    >>> ctrl.options
    ['1', '2', '3']
    >>> ctrl.displayOptions
    ['One', 'Two', 'Three']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue
    ['One', 'Two']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue = ['Two']
    >>> ctrl.value
    ['2']
    >>> browser.getControl('Two').optionValue
    '2'
    >>> browser.getControl('Two').selected
    True
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IItemControl, browser.getControl('Two'))
    True
    >>> browser.getControl('Three').selected = True
    >>> browser.getControl('Three').selected
    True
    >>> browser.getControl('Two').selected
    True
    >>> ctrl.value
    ['2', '3']
    >>> browser.getControl('Two').selected = False
    >>> ctrl.value
    ['3']
    >>> browser.getControl('Three').selected = False
    >>> ctrl.value
    []

  - Radio Control

    This is how you get a radio button based control:

    >>> ctrl = browser.getControl(name='radio-value')

    This shows the existing value of the control, as it was in the
    HTML received from the server:

    >>> ctrl.value
    ['2']

    We can then unselect it:

    >>> ctrl.value = []
    >>> ctrl.value
    []

    We can also reselect it:

    >>> ctrl.value = ['2']
    >>> ctrl.value
    ['2']

    displayValue shows the text the user would see next to the
    control:

    >>> ctrl.displayValue
    ['Zwei']

    This is just unit testing:

    >>> ctrl
    <ListControl name='radio-value' type='radio'>
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IListControl, ctrl)
    True
    >>> ctrl.disabled
    False
    >>> ctrl.multiple
    False
    >>> ctrl.options
    ['1', '2', '3']
    >>> ctrl.displayOptions
    ['Ein', 'Zwei', 'Drei']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue = ['Ein']
    >>> ctrl.value
    ['1']
    >>> ctrl.displayValue
    ['Ein']

    The radio control subcontrols were illustrated above.

  - Image Control

    >>> ctrl = browser.getControl(name='image-value')
    >>> ctrl
    <ImageControl name='image-value' type='image'>
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IImageSubmitControl, ctrl)
    True
    >>> ctrl.value
    ''
    >>> ctrl.disabled
    False
    >>> ctrl.multiple
    False

  - Submit Control

    >>> ctrl = browser.getControl(name='submit-value')
    >>> ctrl
    <SubmitControl name='submit-value' type='submit'>
    >>> browser.getControl('Submit This') # value of submit button is a label
    <SubmitControl name='submit-value' type='submit'>
    >>> browser.getControl('Standard Submit Control') # label tag is legal
    <SubmitControl name='submit-value' type='submit'>
    >>> browser.getControl('Submit') # multiple labels, but same control
    <SubmitControl name='submit-value' type='submit'>
    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.ISubmitControl, ctrl)
    True
    >>> ctrl.value
    'Submit This'
    >>> ctrl.disabled
    False
    >>> ctrl.multiple
    False


Using Submitting Controls
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Both the submit and image type should be clickable and submit the form:

    >>> browser.getControl('Text Control').value = 'Other Text'
    >>> browser.getControl('Submit').click()
    >>> print browser.contents
    <html>
    ...
    <em>Other Text</em>
    <input type="text" name="text-value" id="text-value" value="Some Text" />
    ...
    <em>Submit This</em>
    <input type="submit" name="submit-value" id="submit-value" value="Submit This" />
    ...
    </html>

Note that if you click a submit object after the associated page has expired,
you will get an error.

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/controls.html')
    >>> ctrl = browser.getControl('Submit')
    >>> ctrl.click()
    >>> ctrl.click()
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    ExpiredError

All the above also holds true for the image control:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/controls.html')
    >>> browser.getControl('Text Control').value = 'Other Text'
    >>> browser.getControl(name='image-value').click()
    >>> print browser.contents
    <html>
    ...
    <em>Other Text</em>
    <input type="text" name="text-value" id="text-value" value="Some Text" />
    ...
    <em>1</em>
    <em>1</em>
    <input type="image" name="image-value" id="image-value"
           src="zope3logo.gif" />
    ...
    </html>

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/controls.html')
    >>> ctrl = browser.getControl(name='image-value')
    >>> ctrl.click()
    >>> ctrl.click()
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    ExpiredError

But when sending an image, you can also specify the coordinate you clicked:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/controls.html')
    >>> browser.getControl(name='image-value').click((50,25))
    >>> print browser.contents
    <html>
    ...
    <em>50</em>
    <em>25</em>
    <input type="image" name="image-value" id="image-value"
           src="zope3logo.gif" />
    ...
    </html>


Forms
-----

Because pages can have multiple forms with like-named controls, it is sometimes
necessary to access forms by name or id.  The browser's `forms` attribute can
be used to do so.  The key value is the form's name or id.  If more than one
form has the same name or id, the first one will be returned.

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/forms.html')
    >>> form = browser.getForm(name='one')

Form instances conform to the IForm interface.

    >>> verifyObject(interfaces.IForm, form)
    True

The form exposes several attributes related to forms:

  - The name of the form:

    >>> form.name
    'one'

  - The id of the form:

    >>> form.id
    '1'

  - The action (target URL) when the form is submitted:

    >>> form.action
    'http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/forms.html'

  - The method (HTTP verb) used to transmit the form data:

    >>> form.method
    'GET'

Besides those attributes, you have also a couple of methods.  Like for the
browser, you can get control objects, but limited to the current form...

    >>> form.getControl(name='text-value')
    <Control name='text-value' type='text'>

...and submit the form.

    >>> form.submit('Submit')
    >>> print browser.contents
    <html>
    ...
    <em>First Text</em>
    ...
    </html>

Submitting also works without specifying a control, as shown below, which is
it's primary reason for existing in competition with the control submission
discussed above.

Now let me show you briefly that looking up forms is sometimes important.  In
the `forms.html` template, we have four forms all having a text control named
`text-value`.  Now, if I use the browser's `get` method,

    >>> browser.getControl(name='text-value')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    AmbiguityError: name 'text-value' matches:
      <TextControl(text-value=First Text)>
      <TextControl(text-value=Second Text)>
      <TextControl(text-value=Third Text)>
      <TextControl(text-value=Fourth Text)>
    >>> browser.getControl('Text Control')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    AmbiguityError: label 'Text Control' matches:
      <TextControl(text-value=Third Text)>
      <TextControl(text-value=Fourth Text)>

I'll always get an ambiguous form field.  I can use the index argument, or
with the `getForm` method I can disambiguate by searching only within a given
form:

    >>> form = browser.getForm('2')
    >>> form.getControl(name='text-value').value
    'Second Text'
    >>> form.submit('Submit')
    >>> browser.contents
    '...<em>Second Text</em>...'
    >>> form = browser.getForm('2')
    >>> form.getControl('Submit').click()
    >>> browser.contents
    '...<em>Second Text</em>...'
    >>> browser.getForm('3').getControl('Text Control').value
    'Third Text'

The last form on the page does not have a name, an id, or a submit button.
Working with it is still easy, thanks to a index attribute that guarantees
order.  (Forms without submit buttons are sometimes useful for JavaScript.)

    >>> form = browser.getForm(index=3)
    >>> form.submit()
    >>> browser.contents
    '...<em>Fourth Text</em>...<em>Submitted without the submit button.</em>...'

If a form is requested that does not exists, an exception will be raised.

    >>> form = browser.getForm('does-not-exist')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    LookupError

If the HTML page contains only one form, no arguments to `getForm` are
needed:

    >>> oneform = Browser(wsgi_app=wsgi_app)
    >>> oneform.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/oneform.html')
    >>> form = oneform.getForm()

If the HTML page contains more than one form, `index` is needed to
disambiguate if no other arguments are provided:

    >>> browser.getForm()
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ValueError: if no other arguments are given, index is required.


Submitting a posts body directly
--------------------------------

In addition to the open method, zope.testbrowser.testing.Browser has a ``post``
method that allows a request body to be supplied.  This method is particularly
helpful when testing Ajax methods.

Let's visit a page that echos some interesting values from it's request:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/echo.html')
    >>> print browser.contents
    HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-US
    HTTP_CONNECTION: close
    HTTP_HOST: localhost
    HTTP_USER_AGENT: Python-urllib/2.4
    PATH_INFO: /echo.html
    REQUEST_METHOD: GET
    Body: ''

Now, we'll try a post.  The post method takes a URL, a data string,
and an optional content type.  If we just pass a string, then
a URL-encoded query string is assumed:

    >>> browser.post('http://localhost/echo.html', 'x=1&y=2')
    >>> print browser.contents
    CONTENT_LENGTH: 7
    CONTENT_TYPE: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
    HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-US
    HTTP_CONNECTION: close
    HTTP_HOST: localhost
    HTTP_USER_AGENT: Python-urllib/2.4
    PATH_INFO: /echo.html
    REQUEST_METHOD: POST
    x: 1
    y: 2
    Body: ''

The body is empty because it is consumed to get form data.

We can pass a content-type explicitly:

    >>> browser.post('http://localhost/echo.html',
    ...              '{"x":1,"y":2}', 'application/x-javascript')
    >>> print browser.contents
    CONTENT_LENGTH: 13
    CONTENT_TYPE: application/x-javascript
    HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE: en-US
    HTTP_CONNECTION: close
    HTTP_HOST: localhost
    HTTP_USER_AGENT: Python-urllib/2.4
    PATH_INFO: /echo.html
    REQUEST_METHOD: POST
    Body: '{"x":1,"y":2}'

Here, the body is left in place because it isn't form data.


Performance Testing
-------------------

Browser objects keep up with how much time each request takes.  This can be
used to ensure a particular request's performance is within a tolerable range.
Be very careful using raw seconds, cross-machine differences can be huge,
pystones is usually a better choice.

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/@@/testbrowser/simple.html')
    >>> browser.lastRequestSeconds < 10 # really big number for safety
    True
    >>> browser.lastRequestPystones < 10000 # really big number for safety
    True


Handling Errors
---------------

Often WSGI middleware or the application itself gracefully handle application
errors, such as invalid URLs:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/invalid')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Note that the above error was thrown by ``mechanize`` and not by the
application.  For debugging purposes, however, it can be very useful to see the
original exception caused by the application.  In those cases you can set the
``handleErrors`` property of the browser to ``False``.  It is defaulted to
``True``:

    >>> browser.handleErrors
    True

So when we tell the application not to handle the errors,

    >>> browser.handleErrors = False

we get a different, internal error from the application:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/invalid')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    NotFound: /invalid

NB: Setting the handleErrors attribute to False will only change anything if
    the WSGI application obeys the wsgi.handleErrors or paste.throw_errors
    WSGI environment variables. i.e. it does not catch and handle the original
    exception when these are set appropriately.

When the testbrowser is raising HttpErrors, the errors still hit the test.
Sometimes we don't want that to happen, in situations where there are edge
cases that will cause the error to be predictably but infrequently raised.
Time is a primary cause of this.

To get around this, one can set the raiseHttpErrors to False.

    >>> browser.handleErrors = True
    >>> browser.raiseHttpErrors = False

This will cause HttpErrors not to propagate.

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/invalid')

The headers are still there, though.

    >>> '404 Not Found' in str(browser.headers)
    True

If we don't handle the errors, and allow internal ones to propagate, however,
this flag doesn't affect things.

    >>> browser.handleErrors = False
    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/invalid')
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    NotFound: /invalid

    >>> browser.raiseHttpErrors = True


Hand-Holding
------------

Instances of the various objects ensure that users don't set incorrect
instance attributes accidentally.

    >>> browser.nonexistant = None
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    AttributeError: 'Browser' object has no attribute 'nonexistant'

    >>> form.nonexistant = None
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    AttributeError: 'Form' object has no attribute 'nonexistant'

    >>> control.nonexistant = None
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    AttributeError: 'Control' object has no attribute 'nonexistant'

    >>> link.nonexistant = None
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    ...
    AttributeError: 'Link' object has no attribute 'nonexistant'


HTTPS support
-------------

Depending on the scheme of the request the variable wsgi.url_scheme will be set
correctly on the request:

    >>> browser.open('http://localhost/echo_one.html?var=wsgi.url_scheme')
    >>> print browser.contents
    'http'

    >>> browser.open('https://localhost/echo_one.html?var=wsgi.url_scheme')
    >>> print browser.contents
    'https'

see http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3333/ for details.