Class OpenUrl

Namespace

CSF.Screenplay.Selenium.Actions

Assembly

CSF.Screenplay.Selenium.dll

An action which navigates to a specified URL, as if the user had entered it into the browser address bar.

public class OpenUrl : IPerformable, ICanReport

Inheritance

object

OpenUrl

Implements

IPerformable

ICanReport

Inherited Members

object.Equals(object)

object.Equals(object, object)

object.GetHashCode()

object.GetType()

object.MemberwiseClone()

object.ReferenceEquals(object, object)

object.ToString()

Examples

In this example, the action will navigate the web browser to https://example.com/myPage.

using static CSF.Screenplay.Selenium.PerformableBuilder;

var examplePage = new NamedUri("https://example.com/myPage", "the example web page");

// Within the logic of a custom task, deriving from IPerformable
public async ValueTask PerformAsAsync(ICanPerform actor, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
{
    // ... other performance logic
    await actor.PerformAsync(OpenTheUrl(examplePage), cancellationToken);
    // ... other performance logic
}

Remarks

Use this action via the builder method OpenTheUrl(NamedUri). The OpenTheUrl builder method does not have a one-to-one relationship with this action, though. The builder method actually returns a Screenplay task named OpenUrlRespectingBase. The purpose of that task is to prepend a base URL to URLs which are relative. This action is capable only of navigating to absolute URLs, and it will raise an exception if the URL is not absolute.

Performing this action, as an actor which has the BrowseTheWeb ability, instructs the web browser to navigate to the specified URL. This is performed in the same way as if the user had entered the URL into their web browser address bar and pressed enter.

Constructors

OpenUrl(NamedUri)

Initializes a new instance of the OpenUrl class with the specified URL.

public OpenUrl(NamedUri uri)

Parameters

uri NamedUri

The URL to open.

Methods

GetReportFragment(Actor, IFormatsReportFragment)

Gets a fragment of a Screenplay report, specific to the execution (performables) or gaining (abilities) of the current instance, for the specified actor.

public ReportFragment GetReportFragment(Actor actor, IFormatsReportFragment formatter)

Parameters

actor Actor

An actor for whom to write the report fragment

formatter IFormatsReportFragment

A report-formatting service

Returns

ReportFragment

A human-readable report fragment.

Examples

For a performable which clicks a button (where the button itself has been constructor-injected into the performable instance), then a suitable return value might be a formatted string such as {Actor name} clicks {Button}, where the two placeholders indicated by braces: {} are substituted with the actor's Name and a string representation of the button.

For a performable which reads the temperature from a thermometer, a suitable return value might be a string in the format {Actor name} reads the temperature.

For an ability which allows the actor to wash dishes then a suitable return value might be a string in the format {Actor name} is able to wash the dishes.

Remarks

Implementers should return a string which indicates that the named actor is performing (present tense) the performable, for types which also implement a performable interface. For types which represent abilities, the implementer should return a string which indicates that the named actor is able to do something. In particular for abilities, to make them easily recognisable in reports, it helps to stick to the convention {Actor name} is able to {Ability summary}.

For performables which return a value (Questions, or Tasks which behave like Questions), there is no need to include the returned value within the report fragment. The framework will include the return value in the report and will format it via a different mechanism.

Good report fragments are concise. Be aware that report fragments for Tasks (which are composed from other performables) do not need to go into detail about what they do. Users reading Screenplay reports are able to drill-down into Tasks to see what they are composed from, so if the user is curious as to what the task does, it is easy to discover. It is also strongly recommended to avoid periods (full stops) at the end of a report fragment. Whilst report fragments tend to be complete sentences, punctuation like this is distracting and reports are seldom presented as paragraphs of prose.

PerformAsAsync(ICanPerform, CancellationToken)

Performs the action(s) are represented by the current instance.

public ValueTask PerformAsAsync(ICanPerform actor, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)

Parameters

actor ICanPerform

The actor that is performing.

cancellationToken CancellationToken

An optional cancellation token by which to abort the performable.

Returns

ValueTask

A task which completes when the performable represented by the current instance is complete.

See Also

OpenUrlRespectingBase

OpenTheUrl(NamedUri)