Add Jquery libraries to Selenium

Question

Could someone please point me on how to add Jquery libraries to Selenium? I did search online and below are the steps I have followed so far. I am not sure what to do next. After these changes, how do I build the selenium jar back with the changes?

1. Unzipped selenium 2.04.jar
2. Copied contents of jQuery.js in user-extensions.js

3. JQuery locator to the Selenium core in the runSeleniumTest() function of the selenium-remoterunner.js file like below,

   function runSeleniumTest() { ... selenium.doAddLocationStrategy("jquery", " var loc = locator; var attr = null; var isattr = false; var inx = locator.lastIndexOf('@');

   if (inx != -1) { 
       loc = locator.substring(0, inx); 
       attr = locator.substring(inx + 1); 
       isattr = true 
   } 
   
   var selectors = loc.split('<'); 
   var found = $(inDocument); 
   
   for (var i = 0; i < selectors.length; i++) { 
       if (i > 0) {found = $(found.parents()[0]); 
   } 
   
   if (jQuery.trim(selectors[i]) != '') 
       found = found.find(selectors[i]); 
   } 
   
   if (found.length > 0) { 
       if (isattr) { 
           return found[0].getAttributeNode(attr); 
       } 
       else { 
           return found[0]; 
       } 
   } 
   else { 
       return null; 
   } 
       "); 
       ... 
   } 
   

Answer 1

To update a file in a jar, refer here.

Essentially:

The basic command for adding files has this format:

jar uf jar-file input-file(s) In this command:

The u option indicates that you want to update an existing JAR file. The f option indicates that the JAR file to update is specified on the command line. If the f option is not present, the Jar tool will expect a JAR filename on stdin. jar-file is the existing JAR file that's to be updated. input-file(s) is a space-deliminated list of one or more files that you want to add to the Jar file.

You could perhaps also just add the JQuery js file as a Selenium user extension. Refer here.

Just remember to start the Selenium RC server using the -userExtensions argument and pass in your user-extensions.js file.

java -jar selenium-server.jar -userExtensions user-extensions.js