Get identification property from object when object doesn't exist on page

[Dili]

hi all,

i'm trying to get the "name" property of an object. the object may or may not be present on the page and for my testing purposes it doesn't matter. when i try the following and the object is not present on the page i get an "Cannot identify the object...Verify that this object's properties match an object currently displayed in your application."

Code:

Browser("Browser").Page("Page").WebEdit("Control").GetTOProperty("name")

all i need to do is get at the object's name, which is already saved inside the object repository and as i said above, i don't care if the object exists or not.

i was hoping there would be a way to retrieve an object's property from its object repository without needing it to be present on the page.

does anyone have a solution?

thanks!

[vinod123]

'The following example retrieves an object repository's objects and properties,
'looks for specific test objects using several methods, and copies a test object
'to another object repository.

Code:

Dim ImageObj, PageObj, RepositoryFrom, RepositoryTo

Set RepositoryFrom = CreateObject("Mercury.ObjectRepositoryUtil")
Set RepositoryTo = CreateObject("Mercury.ObjectRepositoryUtil")

RepositoryFrom.Load "C:\QuickTest\Tests\Flights.tsr"
RepositoryTo.Load "E:\Temp\Tests\Default.tsr"
Function EnumerateAllChildProperties(Root)

'The following function recursively enumerates all the test objects directly under
'a specified parent object. For each test object, a message box opens containing the
'test object's name, properties, and property values.

Code:

Dim TOCollection, TestObject, PropertiesCollection, Property, Msg

    Set TOCollection = RepositoryFrom.GetChildren(Root)

    For i = 0 To TOCollection.Count - 1
            Set TestObject = TOCollection.Item(i)
            Msg = RepositoryFrom.GetLogicalName(TestObject) & vbNewLine
            Set PropertiesCollection = TestObject.GetTOProperties()

            For n = 0 To PropertiesCollection.Count - 1
                Set Property = PropertiesCollection.Item(n)
                Msg = Msg & Property.Name & "-" & Property.Value & vbNewLine
            Next
            MsgBox Msg

EnumerateAllChildProperties TestObject
    Next

End Function

Function EnumerateAllObjectsProperties(Root)
'The following function enumerates all the test objects under a specified object.
'For each test object, a message box opens containing the test object's name,
'properties, and property values.

Code:

Dim TOCollection, TestObject, PropertiesCollection, Property, Msg

    Set TOCollection = RepositoryFrom.GetAllObjects(Root)

    For i = 0 To TOCollection.Count - 1
        Set TestObject = TOCollection.Item(i)
                    Msg = RepositoryFrom.GetLogicalName(TestObject) & vbNewLine

            Set PropertiesCollection = TestObject.GetTOProperties()
            For n = 0 To PropertiesCollection.Count - 1
                Set Property = PropertiesCollection.Item(n)
                Msg = Property.Name & "-" & Property.Value & vbNewLine
            Next

        MsgBox Msg
    Next

End Function

Function RenameAllImages(Root)
'The following function sets a new name for all image test objects under a specified object.

Code:

Dim TOCollection, TestObject, PropertiesCollection, Property

    Set TOCollection = RepositoryTo.GetAllObjectsByClass("Image")

    For i = 0 To TOCollection.Count - 1
            Set TestObject = TOCollection.Item(i)
            RepositoryTo.RenameObject (TestObject, "Image " & i)
            RepositoryTo.UpdateObject TestObject
    Next

End Function

Function RemoveAllLinks(Root)
'The following function recursively enumerates all the test objects under a specified object.
'It looks for all test objects of class Link and removes them from their parent objects.

Code:

Dim TOCollection, TestObject, PropertiesCollection, Property

    Set TOCollection = RepositoryFrom.GetChildren(Root)

    For i = 0 To TOCollection.Count - 1
            Set TestObject = TOCollection.Item(i)
            TOClass = TestObject.GetTOProperty("micclass")

         If TOClass = "Link" Then
                RepositoryFrom.RemoveObject Root, TestObject
            End If

        EnumerateAllChildProperties TestObject
    Next

End Function

[Dili]

hi vinod123! thanks for your solution!

however, i've already tried this solution in the past on another project. qtp is terrible with object repository locks. if you load one it "locks" it and most of the time when you try and run the script again it gives a "general runtime error". even opening the repository directly in the qtp repository manager confirms it's locked. plus, there's not even a close() or release() function on the repository object.

would there be a way to make qtp fallback to the object repository when using GetTOProperty() with the object doesn't exist on the page?