How to access the Mink Element in a custom comparator ?

[yannbertrand]

I'd like to create a custom comparator and compare the expected content to the actual element html ($actual->getHtml()). I'm currently using the fromMinkTable method to construct my "actual" table but can't get it working ($actual just contains a string).

Is there any way to achieve that?

E.g.
I have checkboxes icon in some row columns and I would like to verify that some are checked.

[acoulton]

Hi,

Unfortunately there's no way to get the mink node itself once the table is parsed : for various reasons (including compatibility with multiple behat versions) I had to make the dependency on mink as soft as possible. The parser only uses mink to get the outerhtml string, and from there parses it with simplexml.

By design, by the time the table gets to the comparator layer it's just a set of string rows and cells stored as a TableNode, with no extra information about the original mink / html / csv etc source structure.

You might be able to extend the MinkHTMLTableParser so that it finds checkboxes and turns them into a [ ] or [x] depending on checked state during parsing, then you could just use the default comparator to match them as strings.

I've just committed #4 to the 1.1.x branch : if you extend the parseCellText method you could use that to look for the checkboxes and prepend them to the text content as required?

[yannbertrand]

Thanks for that quick answer!

That'll do 😄