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+#-------------------------------------------------------------------
+# WebGUI is Copyright 2001-2006 Plain Black Corporation.
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Please read the legal notices (docs/legal.txt) and the license
+# (docs/license.txt) that came with this distribution before using
+# this software.
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------
+# http://www.plainblack.com                     info@plainblack.com
+#-------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+use FindBin;
+use strict;
+use lib "$FindBin::Bin/../lib";
+
+use WebGUI::Test;
+use WebGUI::Form;
+use WebGUI::Form::Textarea;
+use WebGUI::Session;
+use HTML::Form;
+use Test::MockObject;
+
+#The goal of this test is to verify that Text form elements
+#work, via HTMLForm.  HTML::Form is actuall parsing the HTML
+#looking for stuff inside form tags, which is why we have to use
+#HTMLForm.
+
+use Test::More; # increment this value for each test you create
+
+my $session = WebGUI::Test->session;
+
+# put your tests here
+
+my $numTests = 10;
+
+diag("Planning on running $numTests tests\n");
+
+plan tests => $numTests;
+
+my ($header, $footer) = (WebGUI::Form::formHeader($session), WebGUI::Form::formFooter($session));
+
+my $html = join "\n",
+	$header, 
+	WebGUI::Form::Textarea->new($session, {
+		name => 'TestText',
+		value => 'Some text in here',
+	})->toHtml,
+	$footer;
+
+my @forms = HTML::Form->parse($html, 'http://www.webgui.org');
+
+##Test Form Generation
+
+is(scalar @forms, 1, '1 form was parsed');
+
+my @inputs = $forms[0]->inputs;
+is(scalar @inputs, 1, 'The form has 1 input');
+
+#Basic tests
+
+my $input = $inputs[0];
+is($input->name, 'TestText', 'Checking input name');
+is($input->type, 'textarea', 'Checking input type');
+is($input->value, 'Some text in here', 'Checking default value');
+is($input->disabled, undef, 'Disabled param not sent to form');
+
+##Test Form Output parsing
+
+my $request = Test::MockObject->new;
+$request->mock('body',
+	sub {
+		my ($self, $value) = @_;
+		my @return = ();
+		return 'some user value' if ($value eq 'TestText');
+		return "some user value\nwith\r\nwhitespace" if ($value eq 'TestText2');
+		return;
+	}
+);
+$session->{_request} = $request;
+
+my $value = $session->form->get('TestText', 'Textarea');
+is($value, 'some user value', 'checking existent form value');
+$value = $session->form->get('TestText2', 'Textarea');
+is($value, "some user value\nwith\r\nwhitespace", 'checking form postprocessing for whitespace');
+
+##Form value preprocessing
+##Note that HTML::Form will unencode the text for you.
+
+$html = join "\n",
+	$header, 
+	WebGUI::Form::Textarea->new($session, {
+		name => 'preTestText',
+		value => q!Some & text in " here!,
+	})->toHtml,
+	$footer;
+
+@forms = HTML::Form->parse($html, 'http://www.webgui.org');
+@inputs = $forms[0]->inputs;
+$input = $inputs[0];
+is($input->name, 'preTestText', 'Checking input name');
+is($input->value, 'Some & text in " here', 'Checking default value');