I am developing both an eclipse plug in and a website. I want this two to interact with each other. The case is the following.
I have an eclipse plug in and I am using the org.eclipse.ui.browser.IWorkbenchBrowserSupport to open an internal browser and point it to a specific url. User can interact with my website from the eclipse internal browser without a problem.
The next thing I want to achieve is if a user clicks on a specific HTML element in my website (through the internal browser) to trigger an event or something and pass information from the internal browser to my plugin. This information can be something like : an element was clicked with properties a,b and c.
You can think it as something similar with the mailto: directive, when clicking that directive the mail client launches.
Any ideas on how i can achieve that? Any insights to point me to the right direction?
I have found this (Create an Eclipse plugin that responds to links in the internal web browser) similar question which is 2 years old.
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I want to be able to use Java to tell it to go to X url when X browser is open/running (my lingo is terrible). (Firefox/Chrome/IE is already up, and I want it to go from the default page to let's say Twitter.)
Most of the solutions are using java.awt.Desktop to launch native browser with a url in it, but that isn't useful if I want to change the url later on. (Already on Twitter-Home Page, but want to go to Twitter-Contact Us afterwards.)
The other solutions I've seen involve using Selenium WebDriver, but I also need to eventually learn how to basically force the Java to read a long list of URLs off an excel and simply verify that url isn't dead, and then do this on the Native Android browser, for example. So the Selenium might not be the right choice. Granted, you can also tell me this is an awesome choice for this too if it truly is. I haven't really been exploring Selenium.
Sorry for asking such a basic question. Company wants QA Automation without training/hiring an Automation QA. My end goal (aside not getting canned), is to see if I can get a bunch of urls to load on specific browsers. I can sort of (praying) be able to do stuff with it afterwards.
A simple trick would be to create an add-on( if you know javascript ) which will be quite similar in chrome and firefox (for IE I have no idea in my days it needed BHO) and send websocket commands from java to your addon. But this needs a java websocket server running where your addon will connect when the browser opens. Rest of communication can be carried upon the protocol lines of your requirements.
There are multiple parts to your question.
Read urls from excel.
Use Apache POI to do the same. Selenium code can use the same.
Check that the urls are not dead.
Use any java http client, (apache) to do that without even opening a browser. If the link is dead, it will be dead for all the browser.
Open the links in a multiple browsers.
Selenium is perfect for this. I am assuming that after the page is loaded you have way of validating that the page is correct. Selenium is very powerful here.
Target native android browser too.
I do not know of much difference between this and the previous question unless you are also testing site display based on browser size. The browser is more or less the same as chrome with webkit rendering engine.
I've spent few hours trying to get my deep links to work. The only issue that I still have is that it won't work if the link is opened from the domain that is supposed to be handled by the app but it works fine if the link that is clicked from any other website.
For example:
The link which should open the app: https://example34.com/test.
If I click on a link on Github it'll work.
If I open https://example34.com/ and then click on the link from there it will open this in the browser instead of the app...
What am I doing wrong?
Short answer: This is the expected behavior.
When using Applinks, Chrome will always defer to directing users on the same domain to the web instead of deep linking to the native app. The only way to open the application is to trigger a URI scheme when the user is routing within the same domain. I suggest using Branch to guarantee that your links work in all of these cases.
I have a Google App Engine Application, and as part of that Application I have my standard HTML pages, Home, ContactUs, Testimonials, Pricing ETC ETC, when users click on "login" or go to a specific URL eg (www.diarybooker.com/demo) it loads the actual application.
All these standard HTML files are fairly static files though, with analytics and SEO etc in them, however in order to update these currently I need to release a new version of my application every time.
Can anyone offer any advice as to how I can JUST update the HTML without having to release a new version of my application (especially if I am in the middle of a development cycle and don't want to branch just to update a contact number or fix an SEO issue etc)
It is entirely possible that I am actually using the system incorrectly and that I should be re-wiring things better/differently, but I cant find any information about how this SHOULD be setup, and Im not even sure what to search for either, so if anyone can at least point me in the direction of some information on this, I would be very greatful!!
By way of an alternative example, I have a friend who is running www.wineathome.org.uk and if you click on "attend a tasting" it moves off into http://wineathomeuk.appspot.com. Clearly this is not very clean and is also not the way to make it work, I could embed the application in an iframe, but is that really the way to go?!
You have your application code in source control, right? I'd suggest that you create a deployment directory and clone into it the version of the application that you want to have running on AppEngine. Then, copy into the deployment directory the versions of the HTML files that you want updated. Deploy away.
That is the only strategy that's going to work for you. The GAE deployment tool only deals with your application as a whole.
Looks like you have a couple of issues going on.
On the first issue as #AdamCrossland states you can use source control. I use git and create branches for my application at different versions. If you do that you can merge your updated HTML back into an older branch then update your application from that branch. That way your only changing the HTML files and leaving the application in it's current state. App Engine deploy is intelligent and will only upload the modified files. Doing this from Eclipse is a bit more difficult than from the CLI IMO, but YMMV.
The other issue of a friend clicking on attend a tasting routing the url to appspot is a bit harder to deal with unless some code is provided. I would think it is because the code is doing a redirect to a hard coded URL. I have several application mapped to a domains and none of them route to appspot unless I forced it to in order to use some functionality like HTTPS which only works on appspot.com. I personally try to avoid iframes it opens up an avenue for exploits.
I am truly struggling with this - i have checked all of the other Stack overflow pages and while this may seem like a duplicate question there are NO other answers I can find anywhere besides potentially using multiple modules (even though this does not seem correct)
All i want to do is have a set of static pages making up a website for my main page, the Login page (i plan to use RequestFactory to pull back the user permissions to display stuff for the app from here - somebody suggested in another post such as this to do it from a "Non-GWT" page - that doesn't sound correct to me), and then when the user logs in successfully he gets directed to the actual app with certain things being displayed based on his current permissions.
Now, i have implemented little test projects with multiple JSPs to do redirects using Window.Location.replace("...") but then I have no idea how to actually populate that particular page with what I want to be replaced.
From just 1 GWT app is it possible to have a full web page in static HTML files (or even JSPs i don't care), a Login Page, and the actual App.
And if this is so, How do you do this?
I use RootLayoutPanel.get() to load up my main App - how does it know which RootLayoutPanel to actually use - i've spent hours fighting with this and a lot of the tutorials / answers to the questions don't provide much depth as to how to actually go about implementing anything. There is obviously something i'm just missing
I want to do something exactly like the example in the showcase: https://www.blueworkslive.com/#!gettingStarted:overview
If you use chrome and check the tags every single page on there says GWT 2.4, so it's definitely not like one answer i came across saying "don't use GWT for the login". This seems like it should be something simple that I just... am not finding or honestly am not getting from any of the examples.
This is close to the last step of my project and any help on this would be greatly appreciated.
I'm using Apache Shiro with GAE, Objectify for a database and RequestFactory - there is only one main html page and the app is simply calling getRootLayoutPanel to load the app. not sure if any of that is useful.
implementing the page isn't the issue it's just the redirecting
To login on GAE, via Google account or federated login, you need to redirect your user to login page. Since you run GWT, which usually only has one page, you have two choices:
Do the normal redirect to login page - in this case browser will go to login page and you will loose GWT app state. After login, you can be redirected back to GWT app. As said - GWT app state will be lost. This is the simple way.
Open the login page in child window or iframe. Set destination URL to a page that closes the window (actually it must install a javascript parent hook, that destination page calls). When login is done, destination page calls JS hook, which notifies parent page thet login procedure is over, closes the child window/iframe and continues. This is more complex, some login pages do not like iframes (in case of OpenID login), but it retains your GWT app state.
To answer your question:
Yes it's possible to have multiple pages in a GWT project (GWT pages/modules and static files). Of course, as you navigate from page to page, you will loose app state. GWT module is only "active" as long as page is loaded in browser.
I am working on developing for lack of a better term, a portal application that consists of a series of deployed WAR files all deployed on the same Weblogic server. Basically, I have one application that serves the navigation and a few other things. This contains an iframe that I load the other applications into.
However, when a link is clicked on in one of the internal applications I get a 404. The applications I'm loading into the iframe don't know that it is being loaded into the iframe. I use a javascript function that handles loading the link into the iframe. This link is basically another application (in a WAR file) deployed on the same server instance.
Is there a better way than using an iframe? Can I get this behavior? I have complete control over everything being deployed to this server and all of the applications internal to it. I'm trying to work around a few legacy issues here and thought using the iframe would be an easy way to do it.
There's not many options to gather legacy applications under a "portal", the only one I know of is actually the iframe. But I don't get your link problem. Any link is by default internal to your iframe and the application doesn't need to know it's displayed within an iframe. Why bothering with javascript? Any reason why you can't have application A linking to application B directly?