Re: Scripting a Web-based form
Re: Scripting a Web-based form
- Subject: Re: Scripting a Web-based form
- From: Gunnar Weygold <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2003 19:30:02 -0800
On 12/24/2003 20:11, "Zachery Bir" <email@hidden> wrote:
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On Dec 24, 2003, at 4:09 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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> On Wednesday, December 24, 2003, at 12:43 PM, Gunnar Weygold wrote:
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>> Using system events or another scripting addition, is it possible to
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>> fill-in
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>> text fields in a web-based form?
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>> The situation is this, our company uses Oracle 11i, which has a java
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>> web-based fill-in form. Moving data from our old database to the new
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>> one has
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>> shown some problems. Some of the data can not be completely moved
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>> over and
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>> will need to be re-entered. Currently, this data can exist in an
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>> Excel-type
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>> spreadsheet.
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> Is it a Java form? Or an HTML form with some JavaScript?
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> If it's HTML/JavaScript, you can easily script Safari (or Camino I
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> believe) to do this, by passing JavaScript to the browser using
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> AppleScript.
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>> My plan is to use Applescript to fill in most of the data from the
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>> Excel
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>> spreadsheet into the fill-in form. Then I can select a few items in
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>> the form
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>> that need to be evaluated individually and submit it. Once accepted, I
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>> restart the script which will delete the row and move on to the next.
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>> The Excel side of it I can handle, the problem is that I don't know
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>> how to
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>> either select individual text areas or tab through them. Any help
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>> will be
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>> appreciated.
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> If you absolutely can't use JavaScript to address the form elements,
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> then you *might* be able to use UI Scripting to puppet a user
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> enterring data manually... QuicKeys will also work for this, though
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> both solutions are a big kludge.
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Oh, for goodness sake. Why not just write a shell script to curl the
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various urls. If it's a GET request, you can build the URL dynamically.
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If it's a POST, you could create the POST object and pass it along on
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the command line.
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Zac
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It's a Java form. The URL does not get involved, otherwise I'd find the
values and simply build the URLs.
--
The dragon made me do it.
Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold | Mac OS X & FreeBSD
The Pagan Library | TiBook G4 667
http://www.paganlibrary.com |
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