There's no API for page refresh/reload

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There's no API for page refresh/reload

vemv opened this issue 7 years ago · comments

vemv commented 7 years ago

Hi!

There's no API for refreshing the current page. PhantomJs seems to support it.

Can we have it?

Cheers - Victor

Thomas Walpole commented 7 years ago

#898

Dmitry Vorotilin · Answer 1 · Sun Mar 26 2017 15:00:51 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

@twalpole hm don't remember if we have it in capybara, is it worth adding?

Thomas Walpole · Answer 2 · Mon Mar 27 2017 01:03:57 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

It's not in Capybara, and I'm not really convinced it is worth adding. When testing an app, needing to refresh the page would generally be a sign of a bad UI. I'm open to being convinced otherwise with a decent use case, but I can't think of one right now. If one does really need to reload the page it's as easy as visit(current_url) currently.

vemv · Answer 3 · Mon Mar 27 2017 01:10:14 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

it's not built-in in the Capybara, but e.g. selenium-webdriver has it. Also, seemingly Phantom has it, so it might be a cheap addition.

Reloading can be useful in integration tests as it can assert certain bugs don't happen ("when I reload, state xyz is lost"). Obviusly I don't expect my users to use the refresh button as part of the UX

Gaelan Steele · Answer 4 · Sat Jul 01 2017 04:25:38 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

I'm using Capybara to scrape another site, so refreshing is useful for that.