I was trying to do autocomplete for my input box. When user start typing "I, then I should exactly search the keyword what user has typed ("I). When keys pressed, I was getting the string value as "\"I. How can i do the search based on what user has entered without stripping off any character from the string. Pls provide me any suggestion to help my issue.
Sample Code
public JsonResult AutoBibs(string searchTerm)
{
model = (from line in db.BibContents
where (line.Value.StartsWith(searchTerm) || line.Value.Contains(" " + searchTerm))
select new PoDetails
{
BibId = line.BibId
}).ToList();
return model;
}
The " always appends with an Escape character while processing the String variables in C# i.e. it appends "\" at the beginning. It would not change your functionality and you can still continue with your Auto Complete feature. Generally you can find this during in DEBUG mode only.
Read this MSDN article for more details.
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I have created an endpoint that accepts a string in its request param
#GetMapping(value = "/validate")
private void validateExpression(#RequestParam(value = "expression") String expression) {
System.out.println(expression);
// code to validate the input string
}
While sending the request from postman as
https://localhost:8443/validate?expression=Y07607=Curr_month:Y07606/Curr_month:Y07608
// lets say this is a valid input
console displays as
Y07607=Curr_month:Y07606/Curr_month:Y07608 Valid
But when i send
https://localhost:8443/validate?expression=Y07607=Curr_month:Y07606+Curr_month:Y07608
//which is also an valid input
console displays as
Y07607=Curr_month:Y07606 Curr_month:Y07608 Invalid
I am not understanding why "+" is not accepted as parameter.
"+" just vanishes till it reaches the api! Why?
I suggest to add this regular expression to your code to handle '+' char :
#GetMapping(value = "/validate")
private void validateExpression(#RequestParam(value = "expression:.+") String expression) {
System.out.println(expression);
// code to validate the input string
}
I didn't find any solution but the reason is because + is a special character in a URL escape for spaces. Thats why it is replacing + with a " " i.e. a space.
So apparently I have to encode it from my front-end
Its wise to encode special characters in a URL. Characters like \ or :, etc.
For + the format or value is %2. You can read more about URL encoding here. This is actually the preferred method because these special characters can sometimes cause unintended events to occur, like / or = which can mean something else in the URL.
And you need not worry about manually decoding it in the backend or server because it is automatically decoded, in most cases and frameworks. In your case, I assume you are using Spring Boot, so you don't need to worry about decoding.
I want to write a test to check if a webelement with a specified text is not present on a page. This is the code for the method doing the job:
public boolean checkOfAanvraagIsOpgevoerd (String titel)
{
String quote = "\"";
String titelMetQuotes = quote + titel +quote;
titelMetQuotes = "dierdieboeboe";
boolean isOpgevoerd=false;
try {
driver.findElement(By.xpath(".//*[#id='listRequests']//h4/a[contains(text(),"+titelMetQuotes+")]"));
isOpgevoerd=true;
} catch (NoSuchElementException NE) {
NE.printStackTrace();
}
return isOpgevoerd;
}
Although I'm absolutely sure that there is no a tag on the page wich contains the text "dierdieboeboe" still the catch block is skipped. When I replace for instance h4 in h5 in the xpath expression the NoSuchElementException is thrown as expected. It seems that the contains part in the expression is ignored.
Try this (note the single quotes around the actual text):
By.xpath("//*[#id='listRequests']//h4/a[contains(text(),'"+titelMetQuotes+"')]")
contains is a function that takes two strings. Hence the text of your variable titelMetQuotes needs to be quoted. Obviously, in this case it is easier to use single quotes.
Additionally, the variable name (titel with quotes) is quite misleading because it actually has no quotes for another flaw in the code:
String titelMetQuotes = quote + titel +quote;
titelMetQuotes = "dierdieboeboe";
The second line simply overwrites the quoted title with a non quoted string.
Finally, you don't need the leading dot in your xpath expression in order to locate the first element of any kind with id listRequests
I have tried to know the reason in online but i didnt get it.
I want to know the reason why '%s' used in xpath instead of giving text message
I hope some one can help me on this.
see my scenario:
By.xpath(("//div[contains(text(),'%s')]/following-sibling::div//input"))
It's called wildcard.
E.g. you have
private final String myId = "//*[contains(#id,'%s')]";
private WebElement idSelect(String text) {
return driver.findElement(By.xpath(String.format(myId, text)));
}
Then, you can make a function like:
public void clickMyId(idName){
idSelect(idName.click();
}
And call
clickMyId('testId');
The overall goal of the %s is not using the string concatenation, but to use it injected into a string.
Sometimes, there are many locators for web elements which are of same kind, only they vary with a small difference say in index or String.
For e.g., //div[#id='one']/span[text()='Mahesh'] and
//div[#id='one']/span[text()='Jonny']
As it can been seen in the above example that the id is same for both the element but the text vary.
In that case, you can use %s instead of text. Like,
String locator = "//div[#id='one']//span[text()='%s']";
private By pageLocator(String name)
{
return By.xpath(String.format(locator, name));
}
So in your case,
By.xpath(("//div[contains(text(),'%s')]/following-sibling::div//input"))
the text is passed at runtime as only the text vary in the locator.
'%s' in XPath is used as String Replacement.
Example:
exampleXpath = "//*[contains(#id,'%s')]"
void findElement(String someText)
{
driver.findElement(By.xpath(String.format(exampleXpath, someText)));
}
So it will replace %s with someText passed by user.
Given this ApiController:
public string TestString() {
return "The value is: " + 1.23;
}
public double TestDouble() {
return 1.23;
}
With the browser's language set to "fr-FR", the following happens:
/apiController/TestString yields
<string xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">The value is: 1,23</string>
/apiController/TestDouble yields
<double xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/">1.23</double>
I would expect TestDouble() to yield 1,23 in the XML. Can anyone explain why this isn't the case and, more importantly, how to make it so that it does?
It is because the conversion from double to string happens at different stage for each API. For the TestString API, double.ToString() is used to convert the number to a string using CurrentCulture of the current thread and it happens when the TestString method is called. Meanwhile, the double number which is returned by TestDouble is serialized to string during the serialization step which uses GlobalConfiguration.Configuration.Formatters.JsonFormatter.SerializerSettings.Culture.
In my opinion, both should use InvariantCulture. On the consumer side, the values will be parsed and be formatted with the correct culture.
Update: this is only used for JsonFormatter. XmlFormatter doesn't have such a setting.
Update 2:
It seems (decimal) numbers need special converter to make it culture-aware:
Handling decimal values in Newtonsoft.Json
Btw, if you want o change data format per action/request, you can try the last piece of code of the following link: http://tostring.it/2012/07/18/customize-json-result-in-web-api/
I Guys
In forms I use,
onKeyUp="this.value = this.value.toUpperCase()"
To force upper-case. However for such as name fields. How do you force the upper letter to be upper-case only while the user is typing. I know INITCAP will do that but need to do as user is typing, if that makes sense.
Any help will be much appreciated.
This is a javascript question then, not and Oracle or APEX question. It shouldn't make any difference what the environment is as long as you have access to the DOM events with javascript functions. e.g. http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/event_onkeyup.asp
If you do a search there are lots of examples to Initcap a string in javascript, just pass in the string and reset the item in the dom e.g.
function capitalizeEachWord(str) {
return str.replace(/\w\S*/g, function(txt) {
return txt.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + txt.substr(1).toLowerCase();
});
}
I tried to solve this problem.
For that I created JavaScript function which check first letter capital ,if not then it display alert and revert text.
please check following code for text item:
function checkUpper()
{
var x = $x("P6_TEXT");
if (x.value.trim().substring(0,1) != x.value.trim().substring(0,1).toUpperCase()) {
alert ('First letter Must be in upper case');
x.value = x.value.trim().substring(0,x.value.trim().length-1).toString();
}
}
And set item P6_TEXT attribute as
onKeyUp="checkUpper();"
In the field custom attributes put this JS code:
onKeyUp="this.value = this.value.substring(0,1).toUpperCase()+this.value.substring(1).toLowerCase();"
You could use content modifiers from Universal Theme https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/apex_pm/r/ut/content-modifiers
I needed text in a page item to be uppercase and under Advanced I set the css classe to
u-textUpper
u-textInitCap - Sets The First Letter In Each Word To Use Uppercase