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Trouble submitting form with 'onsubmit' handler defined

 
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HttpUnit1.6
Struts1.2.4

I am trying to submit a form (not a struts form though) via HttpUnit that is apparently having trouble because of the forms 'onsubmit' handler. It's a standard piece of javascript - I have verified that the javascript function exists. I guess it has issues with the 'return' or 'this' portions. I don't even care about testing the validation script in HttpUnit, I just want to submit the form, but everytime I get an exception (see below):



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throws the following exception
 
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Hmm. Where in the HTML document does the validateXxx() function reside?

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Here is a snippet of the html document that contains the validate function (which is generated by the struts validator).
 
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Terrance,
Does it work if you try submitting the form through the browser? I've never seen "this" passed as a parameter before. (which isn't to say it doesn't work.)

Regardless, try passing the explit form:

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Passing 'this' to a JavaScript onSubmit handler is the standard way of calling the Struts validation functions so it should work (also it's more cross-browser compatible than document.forms["myForm"], for example).

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yes, I originally used "document.loginForm" and had the same issue. Since I was in a time crunch I hacked a workaround. I created a 'dummy' form at the bottom of the HTML page that consists of the following:

Now, since this form only contains hidden parameters - in my HttpUnit test case I use a Scriptable handler to populate them and submit the form (HttpUnit will not let you directly change a hidden form parameter without throwing an exception).

Seems cheesy, but until I figure out what the hell is going on it will have to do. My hunch is that it has something to do with the fact that I am using <form> instead of <html:form>, but cannot verify.
 
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Have you tried:
HttpUnitOptions.setExceptionsThrownOnScriptError( false );
 
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I now believe that this is a bug related to the DOM implementation that rhino.jar uses - basically the latest version of rhino cannot validate javascript functions that are generated by Struts. I'll try to find a link to the bug and post it here.
 
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