HTMLUnit/Java - Form is not found

Asked Aug 20 '16 at 17:39

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I have very recently started using HTMLUnit. My goal is to automate logging into another website (I am using this as my guide). However, my code is unable to find the form (of the website I am trying to log into) by ID, even though I gave it the forms id.

Website Form HTML Code:

<form id="site-login-form" action="/podium/blank.html">

My code:

        final HtmlForm form = (HtmlForm) page1.getElementById("site-login-form");
                System.out.println("Found form");
                System.out.println(form);

When I try to print the form data (as seen above), null is printed instead.

I would really appreciate your help, thanks.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:08

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asked Aug 20 '16 at 17:39

Stephane Hatgis-Kessell

What is the class name for page1 ? Can you check that form is not null. Would this be the case if page1.getElementById("site-login-form") returned null if it couldn't find the "form" on the page? – Mike Murphy Aug 20 '16 at 17:45
I chased it down and the getElementById will return null if it can't find the ID on the page. Are you certain that the page you are looking at does have that id? – Mike Murphy Aug 20 '16 at 18:06
@MikeMurphy yeah I literally copied and pasted that code from the websites html. – Stephane Hatgis-Kessell Aug 20 '16 at 21:52
Did you find out what the issue was? – Mike Murphy Aug 21 '16 at 11:28
@MikeMurphy Not yet Im still searching – Stephane Hatgis-Kessell Aug 21 '16 at 14:09
@MikeMurphy is there maybe another way to automate logging into a website without using forms? – Stephane Hatgis-Kessell Aug 21 '16 at 14:16
Do you mean logging or submitting? Can you attach more of your unit test code, that might help to identify what's not working. – Mike Murphy Aug 22 '16 at 21:56

HTMLUnit/Java - Form is not found

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