Textareas in form filler about gremlins.js

[hppycoder]

You could add this to the defaultMapElements in the formFiller species

var defaultMapElements = {
            'input[type="text"]': fillTextElement,
            'input[type="textarea"]': fillTextElement,
            'input[type="password"]': fillTextElement,
            'input[type="number"]': fillNumberElement,
            'select': fillSelect,
            'input[type="radio"]': fillRadio,
            'input[type="checkbox"]': fillCheckbox,
            'input[type="email"]': fillEmail,
            'input:not([type])': fillTextElement
        };

The only issue with that though is that it will only do single characters there. Really TextArea's are best suited for large content areas that it expects a lot of typing.

What I think @marmelab should do is implement https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/ Faker.js for all formFiller elements. This would allow random unique data every time that it runs.

[fzaninotto]

Ah! Faker. Interesting topic, which I know a bit about. Faker.js has a critical limitation in my mind: it doesn't support seeding. Chance.js, on the other hand, does support seeding, and it's bundled with Gremlins. So what you imagine isn't very difficult to achieve.

I think the best option would be to update the formFiller gremlin to make its 'fill' function customizable, so that you could easily type more than one character.

[fzaninotto]

Also, typing more than one letter at a time may be problematic for apps listening to key events.

[hppycoder]

Good to get to meet you @fzaninotto I thought your icon looked familiar! I didn't know you were a maintainer on this project.

Yeah, I like the idea of having it customizable so if someone wants to prefill with Faker (or a finite set of data from a JSON file).

[chrisivens]

That's exactly what I was thinking for a moment. I've hooked up a markdown parser to a text area on some admin pages which listens to key events.

I don't suppose it'd make a huge difference if blocks were added, It'd make me rework how I listen for changes which is probably a good thing.

[fzaninotto]

The fact that gremlins should fill text inputs and textareas using keyboard events (I've just opened #34 about that by the way) doesn't mean that the formFiller should only type one key at a time. So the fill functions should repeat a certain number of times before exiting.

[chrisivens]

Perhaps worth noting that there's a bug in the code that @hppycoder has put forward. The selector should not be an input.

var defaultMapElements = {
            'input[type="text"]': fillTextElement,
            'textarea': fillTextElement,
            'input[type="password"]': fillTextElement,
            'input[type="number"]': fillNumberElement,
            'select': fillSelect,
            'input[type="radio"]': fillRadio,
            'input[type="checkbox"]': fillCheckbox,
            'input[type="email"]': fillEmail,
            'input:not([type])': fillTextElement
        };

[hppycoder]

oops, good catch.