multiple submits to/from same page only submit the first time

[patrickhno]

Ive narrowed a problem I'm having down to this.

I have these cucumber steps:
And I press "Save"
And I press "Save"

I tcpdump the connection to the web server.

And I see one POST.

It do not matter if i put a second visit in between or nothing. The second press never leads to a commit.

Can someone elaborate what is going on?

The second step pass in cucumber btw.
My tests fail on later expectations as the submits never happened.

[patrickhno]

I have now also verified that this works perfectly with the selenium web driver.

[patrickhno]

I even tried to press the button with javascript, and it still fails.
page.driver.execute_script("document.getElementById('save_button').click();")

[Nerian]

Hi Patrick,

I think that instructions sent to the HTMLUnit driver are atomic. Meaning the second click on the save button is not sent until the first has finished. It makes sense on a headlesss driver.

What happen if you do this?:

page.driver.execute_script("
  document.getElementById('save_button').click();
  document.getElementById('save_button').click();")

[patrickhno]

Hi Nerian,

I am not actually trying to click a button twice. That is the result of narrowing the bug description down to a isolated case.
My need is to submit a form multiple times, like when you change search parameters and click ok.
It really bugs me that akephalos doesnt seem to support such behaviour.

I do not even receive a POST to apache on the second click with akephalos, no matter if its javascript, direct API calls or whatever.

I have full blown tests now that works perfectly with other drivers, but not at all with akephalos, as it refuses to POST to or from pages it has posted to/from before, or something like that.

I have not figured out exactly what in the code that does this. It seems to be deeper down into the htmlunit interface or something.

[Nerian]

Hi Patrick,

Do you still have this problem in https://github.com/Nerian/akephalos2 ?

I tried to reproduce this bug, but it works fine for me.

it "Should be able to make four requests to the same page" do
session.visit '/form'
session.click_button 'Submit'
session.click_button 'Submit'
session.click_button 'Submit'
session.body.should include('visit_number:4')
end

Is this what you were trying to do? Can you provide a failing example?

Issue a bug report at https://github.com/Nerian/akephalos2

Thanks