On 02 Mar 2014, at 06:49, Sean P. DeNigris <sean@clipperadams.com> wrote:
In porting the Mechanize web scraping library from Ruby, I started with the following example: a.get('http://google.com/') do |page| search_result = page.form_with(:name => 'f') do |search| search.q = 'Hello world' end.submit
Cool. Sean how it is different from Soup? Do you write tests?
It GETs http://www.google.com/search?ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en&source=hp&q=Hello+world&gbv...
I tried to do that with Zinc via formAt: name put:, but when I sent #get, the query was empty and the response was another blank search form. It took me some time to figure out what was going on and change to #queryPut:at: in the GET case, but now I'm managing form logic from the outside. Since GET is valid for forms (apparently it is the default per http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_form_method.asp), it seems Zinc should handle this more gracefully. I would expect it to check for form fields and add them to the query when doing a GET. What do you think?
n.b. Gofer it smalltalkhubUser: 'SeanDeNigris' project: 'Mechanize'; package: 'Mechanize'; load.
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