Command looping on android

Issues/Bugs
1

Hi,

Running this code on android:

my_array = Array.new
while my_array.size == 0 do
    sleep 30
    my_array = texts("Wake up")
end

makes appium server run query hundreds of times in a row without sleeping even if it always returns array size 0.

If I run it from arc, it works normally. Check output.log from line 131 till the end when it finally returns the object and goes to sleep.

output.log (220.9 KB)

2

If I add

 set_wait 2

before the loop, then it will just query for that amount of time.

Changing the interval in common.js just affects the polling interval, but it continues querying.

3

You probably want set_wait 0

4

The way to solve is that, and I have it.

But shouldn’t texts command return an array (empty or not) and proceed with the code independently of the timeout? Same to anything that returns an array (find_elements, finds, buttons, etc.)?