How to get an element by name, if part of name is dynamic

Issues/Bugs
1

How to get an element by name, if part of name is dynamic and changes every time test is run.

e.g, below read is static while remaining changes.

read today - 9:20

read yesterday - 10:30

2

You don’t say what language you are using, or what platform, or what element type, so I’ll just go with Ruby/iOS/Button:

    buttons = driver.tags('UIAButton')
    buttons.each do |button|
      # 'read' text varies, so use an include
      if button.text.include?('read')
        return button
      end
    end
3

I am using iOS with Java client, is it possible you can give me a java code snippet.

Regards,
Venkatesh

4

I’m a bit rusty on Java, so you may need to adjust. That said, it’s pretty similar. Something like:

List<IOSElement> buttons = driver.findElementsByClassName("UIAButton")
for (IOSElement button :  buttons) {
  if (button.text.contains('read') {
    return button;
  }
}

Of course you’ll want to wrap that up in a method to use the return properly. If somebody see a problem with my Java please correct :wink:

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5

Thanks that helps :slightly_smiling:
below is the java code i used

List<MobileElement> sTexts=	driver.findElementsByClassName("UIAStaticText");

for (MobileElement melement:sTexts)
{
	System.out.println(melement.getAttribute("value"));
	
	if(melement.getAttribute("value").contains("Read"))
	{
		System.out.println("found Read");
	}
}
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