How can I test context menu functionality in a web app? - selenium

Question

I'm playing with a grails app that has a contextmenu (on right-click).
The context menu is built using Chris Domigan's jquery contextmenu plugin.
While the contextmenus do actually work, I want to have automated tests, and I can't work out how to do it.
I've tried Selenium 2.05a (ie. Webdriver), but there's no rightClick method.
I notice that HtmlUnit has a rightclick method, but I don't seem to be able to detect any difference in the DOM between before the click and after it.

Answer 1

Currently there's no right click method in WebDriver, there's an enhancement request opened for it - http://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=161
For now you can use keyboard shortcut Shift+F10 to simulate the right click on the element:
WebElement element = driver.findElement(....);
element.sendKeys(Keys.chord(Keys.SHIFT, Keys.F10));

Answer 2

While I'd like to be able to do it in Internet Explorer or Firefox as well, the main usage will be HtmlUnit. It's nice that the HtmlUnit HtmlElement has a rightClick() method, but unfortunately it's protected and so not accessible from the WebDriver wrapped HtmlUnitWebElement.
I wrote a hack to make it accessible, and so now I can call rightClick(), although it only works if it's running with HtmlUnit - not IE or FF.
// Needs to be in this package to get access to the element
package org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit;
import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html.HtmlElement;
public class OpenHtmlUnitWebElement extends HtmlUnitWebElement {
// Provide a constructor, even though we don't really need it.
public OpenHtmlUnitWebElement(HtmlUnitDriver parent, HtmlElement element) {
super(parent, element);
}
// this is the method we really want.
public static HtmlElement using(HtmlUnitWebElement huwe) {
return huwe.element;
}
}
Now my (groovy) test looks like this:
import static org.openqa.selenium.htmlunit.OpenHtmlUnitWebElement.using
...
def itemWithContextMenu = driver.findElement(By.id('theId'))
if (itemWithContextMenu instanceOf HtmlUnitWebElement) {
using(itemWithContextMenu).rightClick()
def contextMenu = driver.findElement(By.id('jqContextMenu'))
assert ...
}

Answer 3

if you use Ruby with Capybara, this one should be useful:
module Capybara
module Node
class Element
def context_click
#session.driver.browser.action.context_click(self.native).perform
end
end
end
end