Selenium IDE - There was an unexpected Confirmation! - testing

Question

I have a button that displays Javascript confirmation popup. This is a part of my test case:
<tr>
<td>clickAndWait</td>
<td>buttonId</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>verifyTextPresent</td>
<td>Object has been deleted</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
It works as expected: OK is clicked automatically on a popup and verifyTextPresent return true. Still, I get [error] There was an unexpected Confirmation! in the log and test case fails.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Summary: In the IDE use storeConfirmation.
You have to consume confirmation dialogs. Otherwise the Selenium test will fail.
From the Java Selenium RC API Selenium.html.getConfirmation method:
If a confirmation is generated but
you do not consume it with
getConfirmation method, the next Selenium
action will fail.
Edit:
storeConfirmation consumes the confirmation as well.
storeConfirmation ( variableName )
Retrieves the message of a JavaScript confirmation dialog
generated during the previous action.
If a confirmation is generated but you do not consume it with
getConfirmation method, the next Selenium
action will fail.

Answer 2

I encountered the same problem, and I solved it like this:
chooseOkOnNextConfirmation
click buttonId
assertConfirmation
This makes my test run green in my Selenium IDE.
The code to do this is:
<tr>
<td>chooseOkOnNextConfirmation</td>
<td></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>click</td>
<td>ctl00_CPHMain_ucFormDMS_grdDocumentList_ctl00_ctl04_btnDelete</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>assertConfirmation</td>
<td>Areyousureyouwanttodeletethisdocument?</td>
<td></td>
</tr>

Answer 3

using selenium.chooseOkOnNextConfirmation is correct but insead of using this alone use
selenium.click("xpath=//button");
selenium.getConfirmation();
selenium.chooseOkOnNextConfirmation();
Here it will first click on the button and get the confirmation , then it would click OK from that confirmation

Answer 4

In Selenium IDE you can use waitForConfirmation(pattern)