How to `send_keys` to current focused element?

[vizcay]

I'm and testing a complex application where I need to send_keys to simulate shortcuts user behaviour.

With selenium-webdriver we can do page.driver.browser.action.send_keys([..]).perform and it just works. Cuprite has a similar API?

The only thing we were able to do is page.evaluate_script('document.activeElement').send_keys(keys) but evaluate_script is taking a lot to return (maybe I should open an issue about that also, because is around 0.5~1sec).

[route]

It supports Poltergeist's style, take a look at specs we have. No need to use evaluate_script for this purpose.

[vizcay]

Hi @route, sorry maybe I wasn't clear enough with the original post but all the specs pointed work by selecting first the event target (input, textarea, etc) and that is precisely whay I'm trying to avoid as is complex and unnecesary in my use case.

page.driver.browser.action.send_keys([..]).perform just sends the events to the currently focused element.

Let me show you an example where I need this:

The table inside must be all navegable with keyboard shortcuts, all I care is that when the user presses ["Sales", :return, :return, "1000", :return, :return] it does the correct thing, by selecting the next input in the table etc.

[route]

I believe there's no currently a shortcut for that because it is bound to a node, but the closest would be page.driver.browser.keyboard.type("Hello"). Everything you see in the docs on https://github.com/route/ferrum is accessible via page.driver.browser

[vizcay]

👍 Great. Worked as expected:

def global_send_keys(keys)
  Array(keys).each do |key|
    page.driver.browser.keyboard.type(key)
  end
end

[route]

Glad to hear that!