There are few dynamic elements created with a time stamp.Eg: “2:30PM MyElementName” Is there a way to search for such element. GetElementByName works only if there is an exact element name match. Is there something like GetElementContainingTextInName?
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use predicates on iOS or uiselectors on Android. They both support nameContains searching.
I tried below code and it din seem to help
self.driver.find_element_by_ios_uiautomation(“elements().withPredicate("mytext.isVisible == TRUE")”)
The xpath of the element that I am trying to find is //UIAApplication[1]/UIAWindow[1]/UIATableView[1]/UIATableCell[3]/UIAStaticText[1] (Note the name and value of this element is “2:30PM mytext”
In this case how do i put together the search string for find_element_by_ios_uiautomation?
That’s because the predicate is wrong. Have you read the docs about ios predicates?
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@bootstraponline thanks for the pointers!
I got below code working with appium version 1.1.0
text=“random text"
self.driver.find_element_by_ios_uiautomation(“tableViews()[0].cells().withPredicate(“name CONTAINS '”+ text +”’")”)
However, i upgraded to appium 1.2.2 and this method is not able to find the element anymore.
try this, notice the dot
text=“random text"
self.driver.find_element_by_ios_uiautomation(".tableViews()[0].cells().withPredicate(“name CONTAINS '”+ text +"’")”)
using a dot helped! .tableViews()
Thanks
@bootstraponline I am trying to find an element by value instead of name and i used
self.driver.find_element_by_ios_uiautomation(".tableViews()[0].cells()[0].textFields().withPredicate(“value CONTAINS ‘1-222’”)")
This does not seem to work. Any suggestions?
XPath of the element is UIATableView[1]/UIATableCell[1]/UIATextField[1]
you can try contains[c] instead of CONTAINS. Apple has a guide on predicates.
https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/Predicates/predicates.html
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