Parentheses are removed from form element values

[bartfeenstra]

When I use And I fill in "field[foo]" with "Acme (123)" to enter a value into a form field, Acme (123) becomes Acme 123). In short, the opening parenthesis is removed from the code. What may cause this? I tracked the stack down to Selenium2Driver::setValue() and there the value is still intact.

[aik099]

Interesting that only opening brace, located in the middle of the text is stripped off. What was value in that field before new value is about to be set?

[bartfeenstra]

The field was originally empty.

I am using version 1.1.1, by the way, due to our requirement on Behat 2.5.

I also wonder if this may be a collision with Drupal's autocomplete form elements, as I cannot reproduce this on non-Drupal sites, or even in a regular textfield rendered by Drupal.

[stof]

if it only happens for Drupal's autocomplete fields, it is probably a conflict between the way WebDriver sets the value and the JS code of Drupal rather than a bug in Mink

[stof]

btw, Mink 1.6 is compatible with Behat 2.5. You are not forced to use Mink 1.5 and MinkSeleniumDriver 1.1.1

[bartfeenstra]

Thanks! We use https://packagist.org/packages/drupal/drupal-extension, which is a little crufty (hope to help clean it up soon) and requires Mink 1.5.

[stof]

@bartfeenstra IMO, it is just a matter of sending them a PR to update their version constraint to allow the new Mink version

[bartfeenstra]

The exact same issue occurs when using Mink 1.6.

[stof]

Does Drupal's autocomplete behavior perform something special for ( chars ?