Need to fire an event after entering text in a text_field

Question

I have a need so as to enter some text in a text field and then tabout of the text field so that the value in the text field gets validated by a service. I tried to click some other elements in the page but that apparently did not trigger an event to call the service. Is there a workaround in this case? Thank you!

class MyPage

 include PageObject
 text_field(:txtinput, :id => 'textV1')
 span(:for,:id   =>  'For' )

  def enter_my_info(data)
    self.txtinput = data
    self.for_element.click  # click someother element in the page
  end 
end

Answer 1

That type of behaviour often is often triggered by an 'onblur' event. You can manually trigger this use the page object element's fire_event method.

def enter_my_info(data)
  self.txtinput = data
  self.txtinput_element.fire_event('onblur')
end 

If that does not work, you could try mimicking the user behaviour and input a tab character. You can send special keys via the send_keys method.

def enter_my_info(data)
  self.txtinput = data
  self.txtinput_element.send_keys(:tab)
end