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    <title>DZone Snippets: explorer code</title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:46:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Internet Explorer automation using win32::OLE</title>
      <link>http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4586</link>
      <description>// Sample code used for one of my client&lt;br /&gt;&lt;code&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#!/usr/bin/perl -w&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;use strict;&lt;br /&gt;use Data::Dumper;&lt;br /&gt;use Win32::OLE qw( EVENTS );&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my ($day, $mon, $year, $hour, $min, $sec) = (localtime)[3, 4, 5, 2, 1, 0];&lt;br /&gt;$mon++; # 0-based index&lt;br /&gt;$year = $year + 1900;&lt;br /&gt;my $date = sprintf ("%04i-%02i-%02i %02i\:%02i\:%02i", $year, $mon, $day, $hour, $min, $sec);&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my $Disconnect;&lt;br /&gt;my $Menu;&lt;br /&gt;my $TreeView;&lt;br /&gt;my $WatchDog;&lt;br /&gt;my $MenuClicked=0;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my $ScenarioCompleted=0;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my @TreeViewLinks=("Appareillage du B","Branchement Comptage","Branchement individuel");&lt;br /&gt;my $Previouslink=$TreeViewLinks[0];&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my $ie = Win32::OLE-&gt;new( 'InternetExplorer.Application' ) or die "error starting IE";&lt;br /&gt;$ie-&gt;{visible} = 1;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Win32::OLE-&gt;Option( Warn =&gt; 3 );&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;$WatchDog=time();&lt;br /&gt;Win32::OLE-&gt;WithEvents( $ie, \&amp;Event, 'DWebBrowserEvents2' );&lt;br /&gt;$ie-&gt;navigate( 'http://www.xxx.fr' );&lt;br /&gt;Win32::OLE-&gt;MessageLoop();&lt;br /&gt;unlink("noemis.err") if -f "noemis.err";&lt;br /&gt;if ( ! $ScenarioCompleted ) {&lt;br /&gt;	open( ERR , "&gt;noemis.err" ); &lt;br /&gt;	print ERR "Problem executing Noemis scenario, please check www.xxx.fr.\n" ;&lt;br /&gt;	close(ERR);&lt;br /&gt;}&lt;br /&gt;$Disconnect-&gt;Click();&lt;br /&gt;Win32::OLE-&gt;SpinMessageLoop;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;# Maintenance du fichier historique&lt;br /&gt;open ( STATS , "noemis.txt" );&lt;br /&gt;my @lines=&lt;STATS&gt;;&lt;br /&gt;close (STATS);&lt;br /&gt;open( STATS , "&gt;noemis.txt" ); &lt;br /&gt;for my $line (@lines) {&lt;br /&gt;	my ($datetime) = split ( /;/ , $line );&lt;br /&gt;	my ($h_year,$h_mon) = $datetime =~ /^([0-9]{4})-([0-9]{2})/;&lt;br /&gt;	print STATS $line if ($year*12+$mon) - ($h_year*12+$h_mon) &lt; 2;&lt;br /&gt;}&lt;br /&gt;print STATS join(";",$date,"Noemis Scenario",( time() - $WatchDog ))."\n";&lt;br /&gt;close( STATS );&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sleep 2;&lt;br /&gt;Win32::OLE-&gt;SpinMessageLoop;&lt;br /&gt;sleep 1;&lt;br /&gt;$ie-&gt;Quit();&lt;br /&gt;exit 0;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;sub Event {&lt;br /&gt;	my ($Obj,$Event,@Args) = @_;&lt;br /&gt;	my $IEObject = shift @Args;&lt;br /&gt;	print " Event triggered: $Event\n";    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;	my ($i,$anchor);&lt;br /&gt;	my $anchors;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;	# STEP 1 : Find the main menu, login to the web site, find the treeview&lt;br /&gt;	if ($Event eq "DocumentComplete") {    &lt;br /&gt;		print "URL: " . $IEObject-&gt;Document-&gt;URL . "\n";&lt;br /&gt;		if ( $IEObject-&gt;Document-&gt;URL eq "http://www.xxx.fr/ident.aspx" ) {&lt;br /&gt;			my $forms = $IEObject-&gt;Document-&gt;forms;&lt;br /&gt;			my $form = $forms-&gt;item(0);&lt;br /&gt;			if ( defined($form-&gt;elements("fldNumCli")) ) {&lt;br /&gt;				print "--------------------------------------------\n";&lt;br /&gt;				print "Found the login box, authenticating ...\n";&lt;br /&gt;				print "--------------------------------------------\n";&lt;br /&gt;			    $form-&gt;elements("fldNumCli")-&gt;{value} = "xxxx";&lt;br /&gt;			    $form-&gt;elements("fldUtil")-&gt;{value} = "xxx";&lt;br /&gt;			    $form-&gt;elements("fldPwd")-&gt;{value} = "xxx";&lt;br /&gt;		    	$form-&gt;elements("btIdent")-&gt;Click();&lt;br /&gt;	    		}&lt;br /&gt;		}&lt;br /&gt;		if ( $IEObject-&gt;Document-&gt;URL eq "http://www.xxx.fr/menu.aspx" ) {&lt;br /&gt;			print "Found the menu.\n";&lt;br /&gt;			$Menu = $IEObject-&gt;Document;&lt;br /&gt;			$anchors = $IEObject-&gt;Document-&gt;links;&lt;br /&gt;			for (my $i=0; $i &lt; $anchors-&gt;length; $i++) {&lt;br /&gt;				$anchor = $anchors-&gt;item($i);&lt;br /&gt;				print $anchor-&gt;href."\n";&lt;br /&gt;				$Disconnect = $anchor if $anchor-&gt;href eq "http://www.xxx.fr/ident.aspx?qs=deconnecter";&lt;br /&gt;			}&lt;br /&gt;	      	}	    &lt;br /&gt;		if ( $IEObject-&gt;Document-&gt;URL eq "http://www.xxx.fr/client/frameTreeview.aspx" ) {&lt;br /&gt;			print "Found the TreeView.\n";&lt;br /&gt;			$TreeView = $IEObject-&gt;Document;&lt;br /&gt;      		}		&lt;br /&gt;	}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;	# STEP 2 : Click on the Menu and TreeView links   &lt;br /&gt;	if ($Event eq "DocumentComplete") {    		&lt;br /&gt;	if ( ! $MenuClicked and defined($Menu) ) {&lt;br /&gt;		my $MenuItem = $Menu-&gt;getElementById("SM_CLIE_RECH");&lt;br /&gt;		if ( defined($MenuItem) ) { &lt;br /&gt;			print $MenuItem-&gt;ID."\n";&lt;br /&gt;			$MenuItem-&gt;Click;&lt;br /&gt;			$MenuClicked = 1;&lt;br /&gt;		}&lt;br /&gt;	}}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;	if ( $Event eq "CommandStateChange" or $Event eq "StatusTextChange" ) {&lt;br /&gt;		print Dumper($IEObject);&lt;br /&gt;	}&lt;br /&gt;	if ( @TreeViewLinks != 0 and &lt;br /&gt;	     defined($TreeView) and &lt;br /&gt;	     $Event eq "DocumentComplete" &lt;br /&gt;	) {&lt;br /&gt;		my $link = shift(@TreeViewLinks);&lt;br /&gt;		$anchors = $TreeView-&gt;links;&lt;br /&gt;		my $found=0;&lt;br /&gt;		print "Looking for '$link' in the TreeView ... \n";&lt;br /&gt;	        for (my $i=0; $i &lt; $anchors-&gt;length; $i++) {&lt;br /&gt;		       	$anchor = $anchors-&gt;item($i);&lt;br /&gt;	        	#print $anchor-&gt;innerHTML."\n";&lt;br /&gt;		       	if ( $anchor-&gt;innerHTML =~ /$link/ ) {&lt;br /&gt;				print "Clicking on '$link' ... \n";&lt;br /&gt;	                	$anchor-&gt;Click;&lt;br /&gt;				$found=1;&lt;br /&gt;				$Previouslink=$link;&lt;br /&gt;				last;&lt;br /&gt;			}&lt;br /&gt;	        }&lt;br /&gt;		if ( ! $found ) { &lt;br /&gt;			# Le TreeView a bugge, on reclique&lt;br /&gt;			sleep 1;&lt;br /&gt;			print "Looking for '$Previouslink' in the TreeView ... \n";&lt;br /&gt;		        for (my $i=0; $i &lt; $anchors-&gt;length; $i++) {&lt;br /&gt;			       	$anchor = $anchors-&gt;item($i);&lt;br /&gt;	        		#print $anchor-&gt;innerHTML."\n";&lt;br /&gt;		       		if ( $anchor-&gt;innerHTML =~ /$Previouslink/ ) {&lt;br /&gt;					print "Clicking on '$Previouslink' ... \n";&lt;br /&gt;	              		  	$anchor-&gt;Click;&lt;br /&gt;					last;&lt;br /&gt;				}&lt;br /&gt;		        }&lt;br /&gt;			unshift @TreeViewLinks,$link;&lt;br /&gt;		}&lt;br /&gt;	} &lt;br /&gt;   &lt;br /&gt;	# STEP 3 : Verify the list displayed &lt;br /&gt;		&lt;br /&gt;	if ($Event eq "DocumentComplete") {    &lt;br /&gt;   		if ( @TreeViewLinks == 0 and $IEObject-&gt;Document-&gt;URL =~ /listeRefPlof.aspx/ ) {&lt;br /&gt;			print "Scenario completed, exiting ...\n";&lt;br /&gt;			$ScenarioCompleted=1;&lt;br /&gt;	   		Win32::OLE-&gt;QuitMessageLoop;&lt;br /&gt;		}&lt;br /&gt;	}&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;	# Exit on errors&lt;br /&gt;	    &lt;br /&gt;	Win32::OLE-&gt;QuitMessageLoop() if $Event eq "OnQuit" or time() &gt; $WatchDog + 60;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;br /&gt;}&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/code&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 11:45:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4586</guid>
      <author>bouffon69 (Sylvain Le Courtois)</author>
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