[support] Side effects/behaviour of overlay-child.js (with Selenium IDE)

[Jamie Holly]

http://docs.seleniumhq.org/docs/02_selenium_ide.jsp#the-waitfor-commands-in-ajax-applications

Jamie Holly
http://hollyit.net

On 1/27/2014 2:31 AM, Peter Kehl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm writing a test script in Selenium IDE 2.5.0 (Firefox 26) for an 
> out-of-the-box Drupal 7.24 (on Fedora 20). The script logs in as an 
> admin. Then it clicks at 'People' tab. The tab (a page, actually) 
> loads up well (http://localhost/drupal7/?q=admin%2Fpeople&); however, 
> Selenium IDE can't detect it as loaded (and Selenium times out).
>
> If I disable usage of 'overlay-child.js' in overlay_library() in 
> /usr/share/drupal7/modules/overlay/overlay.module, then the problem 
> disappears. The page loads up and gets detected as such, too.
>
> I'm new to Drupal. Could someone explain in Javascript/HTML terms (not 
> in advanced JQuery) what overlay-child.js does, and how that could 
> cause a problem, please?
>
> I'm asking you first rather than Selenium people, because Selenium is 
> quite application-neutral and such problem are rarely caused on its 
> side. It's quite difficult to reproduce this without installing Drupal.
>
> I've looked at 
> https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules!overlay!overlay.api.php/function/hook_overlay_child_initialize/7 
> <https://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/modules%21overlay%21overlay.api.php/function/hook_overlay_child_initialize/7> 
> and at source of overlay.module, but it's not obvious to me. It seems 
> to me that clicking at  'People' tab doesn't need overlays.
>
> Just in case you use Selenium IDE, the script is very simple:
> -- be logged in as an admin
> open | http://localhost/drupal7/
> clickAndWait | id=toolbar-link-admin-people
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> -Peter
>
>

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