com.meterware.httpunit

Installation

nekohtml.jar

The NekoHTML parser, used to convert raw HTML into an XML DOM. This is required for handling HTML.

js.jar

The Rhino JavaScript interpreter, required for any JavaScript processing.

xmlParserAPIs.jar

The interfaces for a W3-compliant XML parser. Required for interpreting either HTML or XML pages.

xercesImpl.jar

The Xerces 2 implementation of an XML parser. NekoHTML requires this implementation.

servlet.jar

The APIs and common classes for the Java Servlet 1.3 standard. Required for use with ServletUnit.

junit.jar

JUnit, the unit test framework. Used to test HttpUnit and recommended for writing tests that use HttpUnit.

tidy.jar

JTidy, an alternate HTML parser/validator. JTidy is a lot pickier about HTML structure than NekoHTML, and uses its own implementation of the DOM classes, rather than using those found in the xerces jar. Some JavaScript features, such as document.write() will only work with NekoHTML.

Example

import com.meterware.httpunit.*;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;

import org.xml.sax.*;

public class Example {


    public static void main( String[] params ) {
        try {
            WebConversation     conversation = new WebConversation();
            
            WebResponse response = conversation.getResponse( "http://www.meterware.com/servlet/TopSecret" );
            System.out.println( response );

            WebForm loginForm = response.getForms()[0];

            loginForm.setParameter( "name", "master" );
            response = loginForm.submit();
            System.out.println( response );

        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println( "Exception: " + e );
        }
    }
}