Add perl export in Katalon IDE

[garnier-quentin]

Hi,

You provide a javascript file for Selenium IDE. Do you think we can have the same thing for katalon ? Like that, we could get an export directly in webdriver perl code.

[teodesian]

From https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/katalon-automation-record/ :

• Support old Selenium IDE's user-extensions.js https://forum.katalon.com/discussion/6286/we-have-released-katalon-recorder-3-5-0-with-support-for-extension-scripts-aka-user-extensions-js.

So maybe our JS file will just work as-is? Worth a shot. If it doesn't work, feel free to share any kind of errors you see from it and I'll look into it further.

[garnier-quentin]

I have installed your js file in katalon recorder. Nothing is added in export (don't see Perl WebDriver). And there is nothing in log.

[teodesian]

OK, so I looked up the doc. User extensions are slightly different than formatters:

https://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/08_user_extensions.jsp
https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-recorder/docs/extension-scripts-aka-user-extensionsjs-for-custom-locator-builders-and-actions.html#locator-builders

The good news is that it appears they actually have documented an example of a formatter for katalon:
https://docs.katalon.com/katalon-recorder/docs/writing-custom-script-formatter.html

So, I can look at this over the weekend.

[teodesian]

OK, so as far as I can tell there are 520 commands I'm gonna have to map to make this work.

Not. Fun.

[teodesian]

OK, so their plugin load of formatter extensions is broken:

katalon-studio/katalon-recorder-sample-plugin#3

As such I'm gonna put this issue on ice until they fix their plugin.

[garnier-quentin]

Hi,

What do you plan for that ?

[teodesian]

I've got a prototype, but haven't had any free time to work on selenium stuff in months

I've got some free time coming up in november, so I'll probably do something about it then

[Coolgeek789]

any news ?