Mechanize users - Jul 2010 - How to access value of URL in a Page object?

Hiya mechanize-users - 

I''m using mechanize to click a log out button on a website, which
returns a Mechanize::Page object upon completion.  When either
''puts''ing
or ''inspect''ing this page object, I can see that the first
hash (? it
looks like a hash) contained within the object is the URL of the
response page.  There is no accessor for the URL, and trying to access
as a member var fails.  How can I programmatically get to that value?

(Some assumptions - I''m already logged in when I call .get, and
let''s
assume here that I always get the "logged out" page assigned to res).

Sample code:

req = Mechanize.new
base = "http://www.example.com"
res = req.click(req.get(base).link_with(:text => /log out/))
p res

Included in the output:
{url #<URI::HTTP:0xb7507d34 URL:http://www.example.com/login>}

How do I get that url value?  These don''t work:
res.url
res(:url)

And can I do so w/out having to resort to a search or an iterator?

Thanks,
Alex

res.uri


On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 17:50 -0500, Alex Stahl wrote:
> Hiya mechanize-users - 
> 
> I''m using mechanize to click a log out button on a website, which
> returns a Mechanize::Page object upon completion.  When either
''puts''ing
> or ''inspect''ing this page object, I can see that the
first hash (? it
> looks like a hash) contained within the object is the URL of the
> response page.  There is no accessor for the URL, and trying to access
> as a member var fails.  How can I programmatically get to that value?
> 
> (Some assumptions - I''m already logged in when I call .get, and
let''s
> assume here that I always get the "logged out" page assigned to
res).
> 
> Sample code:
> 
> req = Mechanize.new
> base = "http://www.example.com"
> res = req.click(req.get(base).link_with(:text => /log out/))
> p res
> 
> Included in the output:
> {url #<URI::HTTP:0xb7507d34 URL:http://www.example.com/login>}
> 
> How do I get that url value?  These don''t work:
> res.url
> res(:url)
> 
> And can I do so w/out having to resort to a search or an iterator?
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
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Hi

If you want to get url value as a character string, you can use the to_s method.

req = Mechanize.new
base = "http://www.example.com"
res = req.click(req.get(base).link_with(:text => /log out/))
p res.uri.to_s #=> "http://www.example.com/login"

regards,

Takashi Ogura

2010/7/9 Alex Stahl <astahl at hi5.com>:
> res.uri
>
>
> On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 17:50 -0500, Alex Stahl wrote:
>> Hiya mechanize-users -
>>
>> I''m using mechanize to click a log out button on a website,
which
>> returns a Mechanize::Page object upon completion. ?When either
''puts''ing
>> or ''inspect''ing this page object, I can see that the
first hash (? it
>> looks like a hash) contained within the object is the URL of the
>> response page. ?There is no accessor for the URL, and trying to access
>> as a member var fails. ?How can I programmatically get to that value?
>>
>> (Some assumptions - I''m already logged in when I call .get,
and let''s
>> assume here that I always get the "logged out" page assigned
to res).
>>
>> Sample code:
>>
>> req = Mechanize.new
>> base = "http://www.example.com"
>> res = req.click(req.get(base).link_with(:text => /log out/))
>> p res
>>
>> Included in the output:
>> {url #<URI::HTTP:0xb7507d34 URL:http://www.example.com/login>}
>>
>> How do I get that url value? ?These don''t work:
>> res.url
>> res(:url)
>>
>> And can I do so w/out having to resort to a search or an iterator?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alex
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> Mechanize-users mailing list
>> Mechanize-users at rubyforge.org
>> http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mechanize-users
>
>
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