How to submit a form field which is dynamically populated? about browser HOT 7 CLOSED

I'm going to close as this seems like a niche feature that can be achieved with a custom browser or component. If there is future interest in this we can revisit.

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Update to the above - this actually has uncovered a wider application. I am trying to simulate submitting a form with a form collection, and the JS to add collection items is unavailable.

Using e.g. Codeception I am able to simply specify what the form fields would be if I had added several items to the collection, and then submit these.

This is the same case as above for the select with autocomplete - instead of wanting to fill in form fields directly, we need a general way to manipulate the form data that is send when the form submit click is simulated.

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I have a working solution for the autocomplete field which is not very elegant but seems to work.

->use(function(AbstractBrowser $browser, Crawler $crawler)
    {
        $form = $crawler->selectButton('Next Step')->form();
        $form['customer']->disableValidation()->select('1234');
        $browser->submit($form);
    })

I don't think the callback function(AbstractBrowser $browser, Crawler $crawler) is documented but it works.

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Interesting solution. You could probably wrap that up into a dynamic custom browser method.

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I've done exactly that.

// AppBrowser

public function selectAutocompleteField(string $formButtonName, string $selector, string $value): self
{
    return $this->use(function(AbstractBrowser $browser, Crawler $crawler) use ($formButtonName, $selector, $value)
    {
        $form = $crawler->selectButton($formButtonName)->form();
        $form[$selector]->disableValidation()->select($value);
        $browser->submit($form);
    });
}

It would be good if I didn't need to pass the form name...

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What about:

public function selectAutocompleteField(string $selector, string $value): self
{
    return $this->use(function(AbstractBrowser $browser, Crawler $crawler) use ($formButtonName, $selector, $value)
    {
        $form = $crawler->filter(\sprintf('[name="%s"]', $selector))->ancestors()->filter('form')->form();
        $form[$selector]->disableValidation()->select($value);
        $browser->submit($form);
    });
}

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Yep - that's a great improvement thanks!

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