Appium IOS time out finding the element when API call return large number of data set

Issues/Bugs
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I am getting following error in Appium Server log

[Xcode] 2017-04-26 17:18:21.811 XCTRunner[2724:2785096] Enqueue Failure: UI Testing Failure - Failure getting snapshot Error Domain=XCTestManagerErrorDomain Code=9 “Error -25204 getting snapshot for element <AXUIElement 0x7ff57ad03da0> {pid=2730}” UserInfo={NSLocalizedDescription=Error -25204 getting snapshot for element <AXUIElement 0x7ff57ad03da0> {pid=2730}} 0 1

[Xcode] 2017-04-26 17:18:21.929 XCTRunner[2724:2772514] Enqueue Failure: UI Testing Failure - (null) /usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-xcuitest-driver/WebDriverAgent/WebDriverAgentRunner/UITestingUITests.m 35 1
[Xcode] 2017-04-26 17:18:21.932 XCTRunner[2724:2772514] Failed to invoke libxml2>xmlTextWriterStartElement. Error code: -1
[Xcode] 2017-04-26 17:18:21.932 XCTRunner[2724:2772514] Failed to generate XML presentation of a screen element

And i realize that when API call return the less number of data set its pretty quick to get the element.
Any Suggestion / idea to solve this issue

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Please help me to solve this problem

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I did a quick google search on this error and the only thing I could find that might be useful is this:

https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/49936

Could your screen be in transition? You may need an explicit or implicit wait so that the transition is done before attempting a screenshot.

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Thank you Wreed.

i am guessing this issue is because the API return large data set and appium ios driver is taking long time to parse and get the desired element from the DOM.

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Interesting observation. You may need to increase the timeout so that this operation completes. Of course a wait will probably help.

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well thats work , its way long time like 4-5 minutes which is not desirable i guess :slight_smile

Android works fine because appium android only know what is present in the current screen regardless what api returns