I am automating a windows application through a desktop session using Appium and Windows Application Driver. Certain elements I want to interact with don't have unique accessibility IDs but the combination of their class names and IDs does seem to be unique.
How can I first get a list of elements by their class name and then fetch one of them with certain ID?
I am aware that the second line of code provided is not correct, I'm just showing it to demonstrate what behavior I need.
Below is through class name:
class_elements = driver.find_elements_by_class_name("some_class_name")
Below is through an accessibility id:
specific_element = class_elements.find_element_by_accessibility_id("some_id")
specific_element.click()
Is there a way to put both of these together in a loop?
Thank you #Moshe Slavin for your suggestion
I tried the following piece of code
#pytest.mark.trial
def test_trial():
className = "UIProperty"
class_elements = ds.find_elements_by_class_name("UIProperty")
for elm in class_elements:
print(elm.get_attribute('id'))
if elm.get_attribute('id') == "System.ItemNameDisplay":
elm.click()
I decided to print the IDs as well. I got the following results:
None
None
None
...
I'm quite confused as to why this is happening. I'm using the Windows Inspect tool from SDK to gather properties of the UI elements and there definitely is and element present that matches both the class name and the ID.
It should look something like:
class_elements = driver.find_elements_by_class_name("some_class_name")
for elm in class_elements:
if elm.get_attribute('accesibilityID') == "some_id":
elm.click()
EDIT:
As #Bill Hileman has pointed out the attribute OP was looking for is accesibilityID not just id.
Thanks Bill
Hope this helps you!
Moshe Slavin answer works, but you can try like this also.
Suppose you have some class name and you are storing it in some variable like below :
className = "some class name"
then you can get all the matching class names using the below line and you are aware of that :
driver.find_elements_by_class_name(className)
Instead of finding all the elements and storing the values, store the accessibility id that you want to check in some variable like below :
accessibilityID = "some accessibility id"
Then you can search for an element which contains both the class name and accessibility id(is just for an indicative purpose, so use app related attribute which identifies required field) using the below xpath without performing any looping :
element = driver.find_element_by_xpath("//*[#class='"+className+"' and #accesibilityID='"+accessibilityID +"']");
I hope it works too...
Related
I am using Selenium WebDriver and I have number of items on a page and each item on page is a separate form type.
I have saved all of these form elements in a list and I am iterating over every item in an attempt to get the name of the element by using the "alt" attribute.
However when I try to get the "name" attribute from the input element it is always returning the first input tag found on that page, not the name attribute of the element I have currently selected.
The syntax I am using is:
((Webdriver imgtags.get(i)).findelement(By.xpath("//input[#name='qty']")).sendKeys ("100");
I have also tried to get the id from the tag by using:
((Webdriver imgtags.get(i)).getAttribute("id");
It's returning a blank value, but it should return the value of the id attribute in that input tag.
I also tried to get the id by using .bytagname but as id is an attribute it is not accessible
Try:
(driver) findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(local-name(), 'input') and contains(#name, 'qty')]")).sendKeys("100");
To answer the comment by #rrd: to be honest, I have no idea why OP uses ((Webdriver imgtags.get(i)). I don't know what that is. Normally, I just use driver.findElement[...]
Hoping that he knows what works in his framework :D
Selenium Xpath handling is not fully compliant and it does not always treat // as a synonym of descendant-or-self.
Instead try tweaking your code to use the following Xpath:
((Webdriver imgtags.get(i)).findElement(By.xpath("./descendant-or-self::input[#name='qty']")).sendKeys("100");
This will base your search off the currently selected WebElement and then look for any descendants that have a name attribute with a value of "qty".
I would also suggest storing your imgtags array as an array of WebElement e.g.
List<WebElement> imgtags = new ArrayList<>();
This is a much better idea than casting to WebDriver to be able to use .findElement(). This will cause you problems at some point in the future.
I am trying to get the job description for job search page indeed.com This is how it looks like
Provide technical leadership around
QA
automation to IT teams. Work with various team to promote
QA
processes, practices and standardization....
Any idea how can I get that description? I tried the following:
//span[contains(#class,'summary')]
That does not give me the text description. Should I xpath or is there any other solution? Thanks in advance for your time.
This XPath are correct.
//span[contains(#class,'summary')]
//span[#class='summary']
I'm a Python guy, But I translated it to Java. You can do:
element = driver.findElement(By.name("summary"));
element = driver.findElement(By.className("summary"));
element = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector('span[class="summary"]');
And remember that If you want the element text, every element has the method .getText(), the find* functions only retrieve the element/s.
Double check you were not using driver.findElements(By.xpath()) in plural. In that case you should first retrieve the individual elements. Then access to the .getText() method.
description = driver.findElement(By.className("summary")).getText();
System.out.print(description);
Alternatively you could do:
description = driver.findElement(By.className("summary"));
description_text = description.getAttribute("innerHTML");
System.out.print(description_text);
If your problem is that your element is not visible or reachable (stale). Then you can use javascript.
element = driver.executeScript("return document.querySelector('span[class=\"summary\"]');");
For more reference:
https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/WebElement.html
I am testing out Selenium recently to see if it can recognize my web app better than QTP. So far it seems doing quite well. I ran into a problem trying to find an element within the table element. Some how I was not able to find master table but not the rows within the table.
This is how the table looks like
The code below works fine...
WebElement BaseTable = driver.findElement(By.id("table_simpleBrowser|type=TradingInstrumentReport|!browser"));
Where as the code below does not...
BaseTable = driver.findElement(By.id("table_simpleBrowser|type=TradingInstrumentReport|!browser_tr_1"));
or
BaseTable = driver.findElement(By.className("even status_DEFAULT"));
or
WebElement BaseTable = driver.findElement(By.id("table_simpleBrowser|type=TradingInstrumentReport|!browser"));
BaseTable = BaseTable.findElement(By.className("even status_DEFAULT"));
Can someone please help to show me how I can retrieve the a certain value in the table by finding the element in certain row/column in the table?
Thanks.
even and status_DEFAULT are actually two classes of this web element. By.className() receives only one class as parameter. It should be
findElement(By.className("even"));
// or
findElement(By.className("status_DEFAULT"));
To find element by the two classes use By.cssSelector()
findElement(By.cssSelector(".even.status_DEFAULT")); // note the dot before each class name
However it seems that its not unique enough. I recommend you search by id which contains browser_tr_1
findElement(By.cssSelector("[id*=`browser_tr_1`]"));
http://i.stack.imgur.com/L4WUv.jpg
Link to Grid
I'm trying to detect the different drop downs on this page (depicted by the filters by the text boxes). The problem i'm having is that it seems that the filters all have the same ids. I can get the webdriver to find the initial filter button but not target the options in the drop down.
Note the filters I'm talking about are the ones from the funnel buttons. For example contains, isEqual, between etc *
This is wrong but an example
it('Should filter grid to -contain Civic', function() {
browser.element(by.id('ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_RadGrid1_ctl00_ctl02_ctl03_FilterTextBox_Model')).sendKeys("civic");
browser.element(by.id('ctl00$ContentPlaceHolder1$RadGrid1$ctl00$ctl02$ctl03$FilterTextBox_Model')).click();
browser.element(by.xpath("//*[contains(text(), 'Contains')]")).click();
})
NOTE The answer that was being looked for is at the bottom of this answer after the word "EDIT". The rest of this answer is retained because it is still useful.
It's a challenge to test webpages that dynamically generate ids and other attributes. Sometimes you just have to figure out how to navigate the stable attributes with an xpath. Here's an xpath that finds all four dropdowns:
//tr[#class='rgFilterRow']//input
To differentiate between each one, you can do this:
(//tr[#class='rgFilterRow']//input)[1] // Brand Name
(//tr[#class='rgFilterRow']//input)[2] // Classification
(//tr[#class='rgFilterRow']//input)[3] // Transmission
(//tr[#class='rgFilterRow']//input)[4] // Fuel
Using numbers to specify elements in an xpath isn't really desirable (it will behave incorrectly if the order of columns in the table changes), but it's probably the best you can do in this case because of all the dynamic ids and general lack of reliable identifying attributes.
EDIT
I misunderstood what you were trying to get because I didn't look at the image that you linked to. Once you've opened up that menu, you should be able to use an xpath to get whichever option you want by the text. For example, if you want the "Contains" option:
//a[#class='rmLink']//span[text()='Contains']
This page is highly dynamic. You had better brush up on your XPath, as nothing else will be able to help you. You can use this: http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XPathTutorial/General/examples.html .
Here is a simple example of how to access the Brand Name "pulldown". This is written in Groovy, which looks a lot like Java. If you know Java you should be able to get the idea from this:
WebElement brandName = driver.findElement(By.id("ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_RadGrid1_ctl00_ctl02_ctl03_BrandNameCombo_Arrow"))
brandName.click() // to open the "pulldown"
List<WebElement> brandItems = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//ul[#class='rcbList']/li"))
brandItems.each {
if(it.text == 'BMW')
it.click()
}
Unfortunately, the above id is not very reliable. A much better strategy would be something like:
WebElement classification = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//table[#summary='combobox']//a[contains(#id, 'ClassificationCombo_Arrow')]"))
Selecting its items is done similarly.
classification.click() // to open the "pulldown"
List<WebElement> classificationItems = driver.findElements(By.xpath("//ul[#class='rcbList']/li"))
classificationItems.each {
if(it.text == 'Sedan')
it.click()
}
If you are not up to the task, you should be able to get help from your development colleagues on how to locate all the elements in this page.
I have to test some complicated web service using Selenium.
Problem is that ids of elements are changing from session to session.
For example there is bunch of inputs each have id with prefix textf_id_DComboBox_ and ends with a consecutive numbers, starting number is random (session dependent).
Those inputs doesn't have a common parent so nth-child doesn't work.\
I can find first input by using selector: css=input[id^='textf_id_DComboBox_'] but I have no idea how to find next items (1-7) which match this selector.
I've found some suggestions on stackoverflow that xpath selector should be used, but I was unable to adopt examples for my use case.
Update:
I have also alternative selector which captures first input: css=td.DForm_treeGridNoWrap input.
You can use this XPath in order to select all inputs that contain a common id:
string comboBoxXPath = "//input[contains(#id, 'textf_id_DComboBox')]";
List<WebElement> comboBoxElements = driver.findElements(By.XPath(comboBoxXPath));
At this point, you can iterate through the entire collection, or you can select which one you'd like to interact with by using an index:
comboBoxElements[1]
comboBoxElements[2]
comboBoxElements[3]
etc...
Well, that descrption does not help that much. You can try these tricks:
You can call findElement on WebElement This trick will probably not work, because those IDs do not have common parent. But if they are wrapped, say, in table, you can find the table first:
WebElement table = driver.findElement(By.id("the-table"));
And then to find all input in such table:
List<WebElement> inputs = table.findElements(By.tagName("input"));
Install Selenium IDE to your firefox and try record testcase by using it. You can play with target in Selenium IDE.
Dirty approach
List<WebElement> allInputs = driver.findElements(By.tagName("input"));
Will find all inputs in such page.
Footnote: The code is Java and driver variable is considered as healthy instance of WebDriver