Hi There!

I am trying to drive the Selenium WebDriver using Perl. The complete context is I am testing on a window10 machine, testing against firefox 50. I have not installed the Selenium server, because I do not need to - the package Selenium::Remote::Driver (available in CPAN) uses the geckodriver. My goal is to open a website, enter texts in the fields, press a button and take a picture - all from using my script.

What I have been able to do so far is the following: I can open a website from the script and can see it open in the window. I can even find a particular element on the screen (in the code snippet a field to accept text and a button) using the xPATH. This runs without error and when I print out the instantiated objects (see below) I get what I am looking for and no errors.

Here is the code - its the commented out lines that are giving me trouble.

#!C:\perl64\bin perl64 -w
use Selenium::Remote::Driver;
use Selenium::Firefox;
use Test::Selenium::Firefox;
use Selenium::Remote::WebElement;
use Selenium::Remote::WDKeys;

print "Starting New\n";
my $driver = Selenium::Firefox->new( marionette_enabled => 1, 
                                     firefox_binary => "C:\Program Fil
+es (x86)\Mozilla Firefox" );
                                
$driver->get('http://144.76.109.38/peTEST');

#works
my $elem = $driver->find_element_by_xpath(".//input[\@id='user_login_n
+ame']");



print $elem."\n";

#$elem->send_keys('Superuser');


my $otherElem = $driver->find_element_by_xpath(".//*[\@id='user_login'
+]\/tbody\/tr[4]\/td\/table\/tbody\/tr\/td[2]\/input");

print $otherElem."\n";

sleep(15),        
        
$driver->shutdown_binary;

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When I comment in the send_keys line, I get the following error.

Use of uninitialized value in substitution iterator at C:/Perl64/site/
+lib/Selenium/Remote/Commands.pm at line 437
Use of uninitialized value in has element at C:/Perl64/site/lib/Seleni
+um/Remote/ErrorHandler.pm at line 126
Error while executing command sendKeysToElement at C:/Perl64/site/lib/
+Selenium/Remote/Driver.pm at line 313. at C:/Perl64/site/lib/Selenium
+/Remote/Driver.pm at line 313

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I cannot tell if it is my code or not which is causing the problem, and the documentation online in (for example) MetaCPAN ist a bit lacking. I have tried to contact the current Selenium::Remote::Driver guys, but haven't gotten an answer yet.

Here is deal - if we can get this figured out quickly enough, I will do a full scale write up and disseminate the knowledge to the world. OK?

Thanks to all Monks - Tom ("novice")

In reply to Need Help with Selenium and Perl by proarchcon

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