CasperJS click event having AJAX call - ajax

I am trying to fetch data from a site by simulating events using CasperJS with phantomJS 1.7.0.
I am able to simulate normal click events and select events. But my code fails in following scenario:
When I click on button / anchor etc on remote page, the click on remote page initiates an AJAX call / JS call(depending on how that page is implemented by programmer.).
In case of JS call, my code works and I get changed data. But for clicks where is AJAX call is initiated, I do not get updated data.
For debugging, I tried to get the page source of the element container(before and after), but I see no change in code.
I tried to set wait time from 10 sec to 1 ms range, but that to does not reflect any changes in behavior.
Below is my piece of code for clicking. I am using an array of CSS Paths, which represents which element(s) to click.
/*Click on array of clickable elements using CSS Paths.*/
fn_click = function(){
casper.each(G_TAGS,function(casper, cssPath, count1)
{
casper.then ( function() {
casper.click(cssPath);
this.echo('DEBUG AFTER CLICKING -START HTML ');
//this.echo(this.getHTML("CONTAINER WHERE DETAILS CHANGE"));
this.echo('DEBUG AFTER CLICKING -START HTML');
casper.wait(5000, function()
{
casper.then(fn_getData);
}
);
});
});
};
UPDATE:
I tried to use remote-debug option from phantomJS, to debug above script.
It is not working. I am on windows. I will try to run remote debugging on Ubuntu as well.
Please help me. I would appreciate any help on this.
UPDATE:
Please have a look at following code as a sample.
https://gist.github.com/4441570
Content before click and after click are same.
I am clicking on sorting options provided under tag (votes / activity etc.).

I had the same problem today. I found this post, which put me in the direction of jQuery.
After some testing I found out that there was already a jQuery loaded on that webpage. (A pretty old version though)
Loading another jQuery on top of that broke any js calls made, so also the link that does an Ajax call.
To solve this I found http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.noConflict/
and I added the following to my code:
this.evaluate(function () { jq = $.noConflict(true) } );
Anything that was formerly assigned to $ will be restored that way. And the jQuery that you injected is now available under 'jq'.
Hope this helps you guys.

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Could not show content in CKeditor after the second time

In my project, the Ckeditor is part of a webpage, which is coded using GWT. So the interface to CKeditor is using Java.
Whenever the webpage is displayed, the CKeditor will be passed a HTML via setData(), which the CKeditor is supposed to show.
The problem is: CKeditor sometimes won't show the HTML. Its content was just empty, although I am very sure the html had been passed to setData().
I had tried several approaches to solve this problem, but none would work.
My approach
Create a TextArea using DOM.createTextArea()
Call myEditor=CKEDITOR.replace(textArea, config) to initialize the CKeditor
call myEditor.setData(html) to set the content.
It was good and showed the content at the first time.
But after the webpage got hidden and shown again, I called myEditor.setData(html2) to show another html, but this time the CKeditor showed nothing.
First solution (did not work)
I changed the code to call myEditor.destroy() before the webpage was hidden, and call CKEDITOR.replace(textArea, config) again when the webpage was visible again, after that I called myEditor.setData(newHtml).
This time it worked in IE and FF, but not in Chrome and Edge, it kept showing the content of the first load time, instead of showing the new HTML.
Second solution (did not work)
I changed it to call CKEDITOR.inline(textArea, config) instead of CKEDITOR.replace(textArea, config) when the webpage was visible again, while the destroy() and setData() was still called in the same order. This time the CKeditor again didn't show anything from the second time.
Last attempt
My last approach was to not calling destroy(), but creating a new TextArea each time before showing CKeditor, and called CKEDITOR.replace(textArea, config) and setData(html). This seems to work well, but occasionally the CKeditor still showed empty content.
Could anyone please help me to solve this problem?
I am using CKeditor 4.5.8.
Finally I figured out the solution:
Before hiding the ckeditor, call editor.destroy(true), and delete editor. (Before this, I only called editor.destroy() [note: no 'true'], which didn't work well).
Here is the code:
if (editor) {
editor.destroy(true);
delete editor;
}
Use this java script code that is very simple and effective.Note editor1 is my textarea id
<script>
$(function () {
CKEDITOR.timestamp= new Date();
CKEDITOR.replace('editor1');
});
</script>
second way ! In controller ,when your query is fetch data from database then use this code after .success(function().
$http.get(url).success(function(){
CKEDITOR.replace('editor1');
});

The view area of ckEditor sometimes shows empty at the start

I am using the following directive to create a ckEditor view. There are other lines to the directive to save the data but these are not included as saving always works for me.
app.directive('ckEditor', [function () {
return {
require: '?ngModel',
link: function ($scope, elm, attr, ngModel) {
var ck = ck = CKEDITOR.replace(elm[0]);
ngModel.$render = function (value) {
ck.setData(ngModel.$modelValue);
setTimeout(function () {
ck.setData(ngModel.$modelValue);
}, 1000);
}; }
};
}])
The window appears but almost always the first time around it is empty. Then after clicking the [SOURCE] button to show the source and clicking it again the window is populated with data.
I'm very sure that the ck.setData works as I tried a ck.getData and then logged the output to the console. However it seems like ck.setData does not make the data visible at the start.
Is there some way to force the view window contents to appear?
You can call render on the model at any time and it will simply do whatever you've told it to do. In your case, calling ngModel.$render() will grab the $modelValue and pass it to ck.setData(). Angular will automatically call $render whenever it needs to during its digest cycle (i.e. whenever it notices that the model has been updated). However, I have noticed that there are times when Angular doesn't update properly, especially in instances where the $modelValue is set prior to the directive being compiled.
So, you can simply call ngModel.$render() when your modal object is set. The only problem with that is you have to have access to the ngModel object to do that, which you don't have in your controller. My suggestion would be to do the following:
In your controller:
$scope.editRow = function (row, entityType) {
$scope.modal.data = row;
$scope.modal.visible = true;
...
...
// trigger event after $scope.modal is set
$scope.$emit('modalObjectSet', $scope.modal); //passing $scope.modal is optional
}
In your directive:
ngModel.$render = function (value) {
ck.setData(ngModel.$modelValue);
};
scope.$on('modalObjectSet', function(e, modalData){
// force a call to render
ngModel.$render();
});
Its not a particularly clean solution, but it should allow you to call $render whenever you need to. I hope that helps.
UPDATE: (after your update)
I wasn't aware that your controllers were nested. This can get really icky in Angular, but I'll try to provide a few possible solutions (given that I'm not able to see all your code and project layout). Scope events (as noted here) are specific to the nesting of the scope and only emit events to child scopes. Because of that, I would suggest trying one of the three following solutions (listed in order of my personal preference):
1) Reorganize your code to have a cleaner layout (less nesting of controllers) so that your scopes are direct decendants (rather than sibling controllers).
2) I'm going to assume that 1) wasn't possible. Next I would try to use the $scope.$broadcast() function. The specs for that are listed here as well. The difference between $emit and $broadcast is that $emit only sends event to child $scopes, while $broadcast will send events to both parent and child scopes.
3) Forget using $scope events in angular and just use generic javascript events (using a framework such as jQuery or even just roll your own as in the example here)
There's a fairly simple answer to the question. I checked the DOM and found out the data was getting loaded in fact all of the time. However it was not displaying in the Chrome browser. So the problem is more of a display issue with ckEditor. Strange solution seems to be to do a resize of the ckEditor window which then makes the text visible.
This is a strange issue with ckeditor when your ckeditor is hidden by default. Trying to show the editor has a 30% chance of the editor being uneditable and the editor data is cleared. If you are trying to hide/show your editor, use a css trick like position:absolute;left-9999px; to hide the editor and just return it back by css. This way, the ckeditor is not being removed in the DOM but is just positioned elsewhere.
Use this java script code that is very simple and effective.Note editor1 is my textarea id
<script>
$(function () {
CKEDITOR.timestamp= new Date();
CKEDITOR.replace('editor1');
});
</script>
Second way In controller ,when your query is fetch data from database then use th
is code after .success(function().
$http.get(url).success(function(){
CKEDITOR.replace('editor1');
});
I know, that this thread is dead for a year, but I got the same problem and I found another (still ugly) solution to this problem:
instance.setData(html, function(){
instance.setData(html);
});

how to access the id of div which is loaded through ajax

I have button with id = new which loads the new page
$("#new").click(function(){
$('#message_area').load('new.php');
});
There is a button in new.php which sends message to database. But i have a problem with it , it only works for first time when page loads if i navigate to some other links via ajax and again load new.php using above code then send button in new.php does not work i have to refresh the page then it works. I think its because the send button in new.php is added after DOM is created for first time .
Please help Thanks in advance ..
You will need to post more details of your markup for a more accurate answer, but the general idea is to use event delegation. Bind the event handler to an ancestor of the button that does not get removed from the DOM. For example:
$("#message_area").on("click", "#yourButton", function() {
//Do stuff
});
This works because DOM events bubble up the tree, through all of an elements ancestors. Here you are simply capturing the event higher up the tree and checking if it originated from something you are interested in (#yourButton).
See jQuery .on for more. Note that if you're using a version of jQuery below 1.7, you will need to use delegate instead.
//jquery >= v1.7
$("body").on('click', '#new', function(){
$('#message_area').load('new.php');
});
//jquery < v1.7
$("#new").live('click',function(){
$('#message_area').load('new.php');
});
$("#new").live("click", function(){
$('#message_area').load('new.php');
});
just realized this was deprecated-- should be using on instead.. my bad.
To manage dynamically created elements like this, you need to use .on() (jQuery 1.7 and above) or .delegate() (jQuery 1.4.3 and above) to assign the events. Seems everyone has beaten me to the code, but I'll post this for the links to the functions.

Loading forms with .load kills the submit button in Firefox

I am currently loading several forms into a webpage with:
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#content').load('php_script.php', function() {
$(this).find('#someForm').ajaxForm(function() {
alert('Success!');
});
$(this).find('.someOtherForm').ajaxForm(function() {
alert('Success!');
});
});
});
This works in Chrome, Chromium and IE who loads the forms and everything works as it should (Clicking submit sends a request to the php-script defined in the form's action, which adds stuff to a db, and shows the alert dialog). In Firefox (v10.0.2) this code loads the forms into the DOM and displays them, but when clicking submit on any of the forms nothing happens.
At first I suspected ajaxForm, but changing the above code to:
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#content').load('php_script.php');
});
yields almost the same result, the difference being that the user is sent to the script defined as the action (Except for Firefox, where nothing happens).
How do I make Firefox not kill the submit button?
I solved it, bad HTML from my side:
<table><form ...>
<tr>...</tr>
</form></table>
Instead it should look like:
<form ...><table>
<tr>...</tr>
</table></form>
The validator did not catch this since it was loaded via jQuery (and I forgot to validate the page serving the forms), and Firefox buggered out.
The code above looks ok to me...
Have you had a look in firebug if there are any errors? Maybe there is a conflicting Id or something.
Maybe the form isnt completely loaded into the dom yet, might be worth giving live binding a try
Found this in the docs:
...jQuery uses the browser's .innerHTML property to parse the retrieved document and insert it into the current document. During this process, browsers often filter elements from the document such as , , or elements. As a result, the elements retrieved by .load() may not be exactly the same as if the document were retrieved directly by the browser...
If you inspect the form is it the same as in other browsers?

Detect when AJAX changes HTML in a DIV in WebBrowser

After I load a page through a WebBrowser, and I click a link that fires an AJAX script, I need to detect when the AJAX java script finishes loading HTML changes into a div. Since no DocumentCompleted event is fired when the AJAX script is run, I don't know when it finish running. Is there a way I can attach an event to be raised after I know 100% that the javascript finished changing the div?
The project is in C#.
Thanks
I did something similar recently (using jQuery):
$('#mydiv').change(function(){
// do stuff
}
);
Granted, I also use jQuery to set the HTML of that div. I suppose one non-jQuery approach for you could be to set HTML through your own function, which in turn can fire an onchange event.
#New in town: From my experience that is not correct. I use this on multiple DIVs that never get focus in the first place, and it works well and consistently. The normal behavior is as you describe, and normally only applies to the INPUT and SELECT elements, but this is not the case with jQuery.
There is no event. You must patch the JavaScript callback that the browser runs when the reply for the AJAX request comes in. This will contains code like "div.innerHTML = ...". Just put your code below that.

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