re: bug CACTUS-61 - Cactus doesn't properly integrate w/HttpUnit. External Javascript generates NullPointerException

[Robert Koberg <ro...@koberg.com>]

I have posted this bug to the HttpUnit mail list (twice) and received no 
response. HttpUnit uses a base URL to resolve the file, so if you have:

<script src="http://blah.com/js.js"/>

You are out of luck. I looked at patching it but it requires quite a few 
changes (throwing SAXExceptions for some reason).

Here is what i posted to the httpunit list:

I have some pages under test that have script tags with fully qualified 
paths for the src attribute:

<script src="http://blah.com/js.js"/>

the base URL for the page is a different domain.

in ParsedHTML.getIncludedScript it tries to get the resource by sending 
the base url and the src attribute string. This is causing a null 
pointer in my test.

I tried to patch ParsedHTML with something like:

if (srcAttribute.startsWith("http://")) {
   req = new GetMethodRequest( srcAttribute );
} else {
   req = new GetMethodRequest( getBaseURL(), srcAttribute );
}

But this throws an IllegalStateException and asks me to use getResponse 
instead of getResource. Doing this wants a SAXeception to be thrown 
which would have to bubble up.

Any suggestions on how to parse a page with a script element like the 
example above?


best,
-Rob