Exposes "submit" method on form elements

[turicas]

If I have a form, like in:

from splinter.browser import Browser
browser = Browser()
browser.visit('http://www.google.com/')
my_form = browser.find_by_tag('form').first

the object my_form._element will have the submit method.

As we should not use _element since it is related to Selenium, Splinter should exposes a submit method in this form-object, so we can submit forms without needing to search for the submit button (or element that actually submits the form).

It is not useful when we want to test if some button, when clicked, submits the form correctly. But it's very useful when we just want to submit the form and check what is the response (and don't want to know the name of the button/element that submits the form).

[fsouza]

Indeed we can provide a FormElement class and use with to provide a nice syntax:

with browser.get_form_by_id('my_form') as form:
    form.fill('name', 'Bla')
    form.fill('age', '20')
    form.submit() 

It's a bit related to issue #28.

[turicas]

I think we should return FormElement when we do a search (with browser.find_*) and the result is a form tag. It should work with all browsers available and be a Splinter's abstraction (not specific to any browser driver).

The context manager you propose is just syntactic sugar around this idea -- first we need to return objects which have methods and attributes that makes sense (so I think #111 is more important than #28).

This issue is strongly related to #111 (Return tag-specific objects in DriverAPI.find_* methods) -- really, issue #111 is a generalisation of this (for all kind of HTML elements).

[turicas]

Sorry, I wrongly cliked "comment & close".

[objarni]

Has this been adressed? I would like to be able to choose which submit button to use in case there are several.

[drernie]

+1 Seems related to my problems with #471.