Rational Functional Tester wait for object existence

Question

I'm currently modifying a Java script in Rational Functional Tester and I'm trying to tell RFT to wait for an object with a specified set of properties to appear. Specifically, I want to wait until a table with X number of rows appear. The only way I have been able to do it so far is to add a verification point that just verifies that the table has X number of rows, but I have not been able to utilize the wait for object type of VP, so this seems a little bit hacky. Is there a better way to do this?

Jeff

Answer 1

No, there is not a built-in waitForProperty() type of method, so you cannot do something simple like tableObject.waitForProperty("rowCount", x);

Your options are to use a verification point as you already are doing (if it ain't broke...) or to roll your own synchronization point using a do/while loop and the find() method.

The find() codesample below assumes that doc is an html document. Adjust this to be your parent java window.

TestObject[] tables = doc.find(atDescendant(".rowCount", x), false);

If you are not familiar with find(), do a search in the RFT API reference in the help menu. find() will be your best friend in RFT scripting.

Answer 2

You can use:

getobject.gettext();

Answer 3

You can do one thing.... you can try getting the particular property and check that you are getting the desired value of that. If not then iterate in a IF loop.

while (!flag) {
  if (obj.getproperty(".text").equals("Desired Text")) {
    flag = true
  }
}