Testing internationalized sites

[jabko]

Hi,

I wanted to test if I display correct messages on a page regarding action taken by a user. I use polish letters and therefore I have some problems with it. As far as I know pages are encoded in UTF-8 standard in JSF by default . I load my messages from bundles (properties file) and they are displayed correctly in the browser. If you check the source of the page I can see polish letters encoded with UTF-8 i.e.

<span id="loginForm:passwordOut">Has'an encoded UTF-8 letter goes here'o:</span>

Of course messages loaded from bundle are decoded correctly ( I see them in debug mode ;) )

The problem appears when I want to check if a message loaded from the bundle message is equal to the message in html element. My test scenario: I send action to the server and than I want to get response and compare text within elements with a given text from Bundle Messages. See code below:

public void testWrongLogin() throws MalformedURLException, IOException, SAXException{
 JSFClientSession client = new JSFClientSession("/pages/login/signin.jsf");
 RichFacesClient rfClient = new RichFacesClient(client);
 JSFServerSession server = new JSFServerSession(client);

 //set a wrong login
 client.setParameter("loginForm:loginIn", "wrongLogin");
 //if the login is wrong password doesn't matter
 client.setParameter("loginForm:passwordIn", "passwordNotImportant");
 rfClient.ajaxSubmit("loginForm:loginAction");
 String wrongLoginMessage = BundleUtil.getMessageResourceString("loginMsg", "signin_wrongLoginOrPassword", null, server.getFacesContext());
 WebResponse webResponse = client.getWebResponse();
 HTMLElement element = webResponse.getElementWithID("loginForm:loginErrorPanel");
 assertEquals(wrongLoginMessage, element.getText());
 }

In that case as a text within checked element I get text with '?' instead of polish letters. Why these text isn't decoded correctly into String in Java. Do you know what can be the problem? Any workaround?

P.s. If I check encoding in browsers (IE, Firefox) it's still UTF-8.

Thanks for help
jabko

[ssilvert]

Have you tried setting the Accept-Language and Accept-Charset headers on your WebConversation?

WebConversation webConv = WebConversationFactory.makeWebConversation();
webConv.setHeaderField("Accept-Language", "pl");
webConv.setHeaderField("Accept-Charset", "ISO-8859-2");
JSFClientSession client = new JSFClientSession (webConv, "/pages/login/signin.jsf");

Please let me know if that works.

Also, you can check your messages at the server side with JSFServerSession.getFacesMessages(). This might be a more reliable test.

Stan

[jabko]

Hi,

I think problem is somewhere else. I debug a little and checked how my response looks like when I do first request to the server. I checked of course client after this line of code:

JSFClientSession client = new JSFClientSession("/pages/login/signin.jsf");

JSFClientSession object contains HttpWebResponse object. In the object I can see properly encoded polish letters in UTF-8 but when I do ajaxSubmit on RichFacesClient

rfClient.ajaxSubmit("loginForm:loginAction");
 String wrongLoginMessage = BundleUtil.getMessageResourceString("loginMsg", "signin_wrongLoginOrPassword", null, server.getFacesContext());
 WebResponse webResponse = client.getWebResponse();

webResponse object contains already badly encoded polish letters. I can conclude that it's a bug probably while executing ajaxSubmit and than creating WebResponse object.


Any thoughts about this?


Thanks
Bart

[ssilvert]

So did you try my earlier suggestion? If so, was there any affect at all?

It would be great if you could provide me with a simple example. I'd like to try this out myself.

Thanks,

Stan

[jabko]

Hi,

I did try your suggestion but id didn't really help.

I'll send a simple example later on.

Bart

[ssilvert]

Bart,

I got your sample working and it looks like a bug in the JSFUnit RichFaces code. I will need to narrow it down some more as soon as I get a little free time. Hopefully, I'll have the problem fixed in the next few days.

Stan

[ssilvert]

Hi Bart,

Sorry this one took so long. It was a tough one to track down.

I have committed a fix that you can try out if you build JSFUnit from SVN.

In your test, you will need to set the Content-Type like this:

WebConversation webConv = WebConversationFactory.makeWebConversation();
webConv.setHeaderField("Content-Type", "text/html;charset=ISO-8859-2");
JSFClientSession client = new JSFClientSession (webConv, "/foo.jsf");

For tracking purposes, here is the jira task: http://jira.jboss.com/jira/browse/JSFUNIT-79

Regards,

Stan