How to use Java to sent and read a third party javascript variables

Question

I have two javascript files:

http://www.dublinbikes.ie/design/marseille/javascript/gmaps_common.js
http://www.dublinbikes.ie/design/marseille/javascript/gmaps_search_station.js

Which for http://www.dublinbikes.ie/All-Stations/Station-map# website

What I want to do is to simulate the search a station status action that on the left hand side by set variable 'value' a station number and pass it to gmaps_common.js for execute, then read the result from gmaps_search_station.js that executed variable called html from LeftBlock(id) function.

Because I need run whole process automatically several times, so please suggest me could I use Java to do this and how.

Thank you very much for the help.

Answer 1

You should never try to emulate a JavaScript interpreter just to get js variables out of it - just do the same thing the script would do in your language. Java is mighty enough.

The script just gets a list of stations from http://www.dublinbikes.ie/service/carto , and then queries details from http://www.dublinbikes.ie/service/stationdetails/dublin/ {number} ( example ). Java has lots of HTTP and XML libraries, it will be no problem for you to do that, too.