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I am using Cucumber, watir-webdriver, page-object, and jruby. I am writing a method in a page class that enters a value into a text area. I am using a generated method in the page-object gem that, under the hood, invokes the Watir-Webdriver set method, that in turn invokes send_keys on the element.
Anyway, the problem for me is I am trying to add a VERY LARGE STRING (in order to test max size stuff for a validateable form object). It's 4000 characters and takes a noticeable amount of time to enter.
It would be great if there were a way to just paste the whole string into the text area at once. Is there any way to do this with the technologies I have on hand? These are.. JRuby, watir-webdriver, page-object (which really just delegates to watir-webdriver). I suppose under the hood it's selenium-webdriver that's doing the browser driver interaction in any case.
So far I haven't found a way around ultimately using send_keys which basically sends one key stroke at a time and that's why a huge character string is a pain.
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You could directly set the value of the field using execute_script.
Given a page with a textarea:
<html>
<body>
<textarea></textarea>
</body>
</html>
Inputting the textarea with set took 6-9 seconds (with Firefox/Chrome):
input = 'a' * 4000
browser.textarea.set(input)
However, by using execute_script to directly set the value, it only took 0.2 seconds:
input = 'a' * 4000
field = browser.textarea
browser.execute_script('arguments[0].value = arguments[1];', field, input)
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