How to use find_element with resource ids in Ruby

willosser · December 11, 2014, 3:41pm

I’m looking for an example of how to find an element by resource id using Ruby. The examples I’ve found in Java use selenium-webdriver’s By method, but I cannot find sufficient documentation on how to use By in Ruby. Does anyone have a pointer to such an example?

bootstraponline · December 11, 2014, 10:28pm

github.com

appium/ruby_lib/blob/3cfe8648827ed6f78fb4d3bb9610f15aebbb38ed/android_tests/lib/android/specs/common/patch.rb#L62


      end
    end


    t 'find many elements by resource id' do
      wait do
        value = find_elements(:id, 'android:id/text1').length
        value.must_equal 12
      end
    end


    t 'find single element by resource id' do
      wait do
        value = id('android:id/text1').text
        value.must_equal "Access'ibility"
      end
    end
  end
end

willosser · December 11, 2014, 11:52pm

Thanks for the response, Bootstrap. I got it working. I used find_element(:id, resource_id)

When I tried to use id(resource_id), it produce an error. I’m using head of line appium, 8fdcf83

bootstraponline · December 12, 2014, 1:37am

id is just an alias for find_element :id. What error did it generate?

github.com

appium/ruby_lib/blob/d4517b878763523068f99b89b38a1ea3b0a98c4b/lib/appium_lib/android/helper.rb#L183


  act  = pair.last
  OpenStruct.new(line:     line,
                 package:  pkg,
                 activity: act,
                 am_start: pkg + '/' + act)
end


# Find the first matching element by id
# @param id [String] the id to search for
# @return [Element]
def id id
  # Android auto resolves strings.xml ids
  find_element :id, id
end


# Find all matching elements by id
# @param id [String] the id to search for
# @return [Element]
def ids id
  # Android auto resolves strings.xml ids
  find_elements :id, id

Andrew_Dinh · January 20, 2016, 5:28pm

Thank you for the pointer, @bootstrap! Once you locate an element, what sort of actions can you do on them? I will try it out. Are all the methods available for capybara available for appium_capybara? It would be great if you add some more specs for QA folks. Thanks, for the quick response!

Andrew

bootstrap · January 20, 2016, 5:43pm

Reading the source code is the best way to understand what you can do. I don’t use appium anymore. If you send pull requests I’m sure the other devs will appreciate it.

Andrew_Dinh · January 20, 2016, 6:24pm

Yeah, okay! I will give it a try, but my ruby is not that great. I just know basic ruby scripting and google the syntax I need.
BTW, I was able to do this for android:

element :login_button, :id, 'welcome_login_button'

def click_login_button
  login_button.click
end

And in my spec:

require_relative '../../spec_helper_test'
require './pages/landing_page'

describe 'Android Test' do
  before(:each) do
    @landing_page = Pages::LandingPage.new
  end

  it 'should be able to go to login page' do
    @landing_page.click_login_button
  end
end

erikshimoda · June 20, 2017, 4:05am

You can use xpath method, like this:

element = xpath("//android.widget.TextView[contains(@resource-id,‘text_view_bla’)]")

Or

element = xpath("//android.widget.TextView[starts-with(@resource-id,’'package:id/text_view_bla)]")

Or

element = find_elements(:xpath, “//android.widget.TextView[starts-with(@resource-id,’'package:id/text_view_bla)]”)