Inspector not finding elements, specifically text fields

Issues/Bugs
1

I’m working with the Inspector to write some tests for iOS. We’re checking out an iPhone 6, version 8.4. Every time I try to run the tests after setting them up in the inspector, I keep getting the error that element cannot be found using the parameters used. Also, while using inspector, I am able to click buttons (like a login button, or “facebook” button, but sending text to text fields never works. Could really use some guidance here.

“use strict”;

var wd = require(“wd”);
var chai = require(“chai”);
var chaiAsPromised = require(“chai-as-promised”);

chai.use(chaiAsPromised);
chai.should();
chaiAsPromised.transferPromiseness = wd.transferPromiseness;

var desired = {
“appium-version”: “1.0”,
platformName: “iOS”,
platformVersion: “8.4”,
deviceName: “iPhone 6”,
app: “/Users/andrew/Documents/SqorMobileiOS.app”,
};

var browser = wd.promiseChainRemote(“0.0.0.0”, 4723);

browser.init(desired).then(function() {
return browser
.elementByXPath("//UIAApplication[1]/UIAWindow[1]/UIAButton[1]").click()
.sleep(10000)
.elementByXPath("//UIAApplication[1]/UIAWindow[2]/UIAScrollView[1]/UIAScrollView[1]/UIAWebView[1]/UIATextField[1]").click()
.sleep(10000)
.elementByXPath("//UIAApplication[1]/UIAWindow[2]/UIAScrollView[1]/UIAScrollView[1]/UIAWebView[1]/UIATextField[1]").sendKeys("[email protected]")
.sleep(10000)
.elementByXPath("//UIAApplication[1]/UIAWindow[2]/UIAScrollView[1]/UIAScrollView[1]/UIAWebView[1]/UIASecureTextField[1]").click()
.elementByXPath("//UIAApplication[1]/UIAWindow[2]/UIAScrollView[1]/UIAScrollView[1]/UIAWebView[1]/UIASecureTextField[1]").sendKeys(“Password”)
.elementByXPath(" //UIAApplication[1]/UIAWindow[2]/UIAScrollView[1]/UIAScrollView[1]/UIAWebView[1]/UIAButton[1]").click()
.sleep(10000)

	.fin(function() {
		return browser.quit();
	});

}).done();

2

We cannot interact with UIAWebView class elements directly we need to switch to webview context
Check if method getContext(); prints some context like NATIVE,WEBVIEW etc

3

Hi @amitjaincoer191 Thank you for the response. Can you please clarify exactly where I would need to apply that method? I am super new to this. Thanks

4

Something like this worked in JAVA for Android app

final Set contextNames = driver.getContextHandles();
for (final String contextName : contextNames) {
System.out.println(contextName);
if (contextName.contains(“WEBVIEW”)) {
driver.context(contextName);
}

find equivalent code in javascript and check if context as WEBVIEW is coming if yes switch to it and then try
if no then may be some other issue.

5

Hybrid app contains Native and WebView context

You can insert your code after this statement, once the context is switched you can easily find the elements
var browser = wd.promiseChainRemote(“0.0.0.0”, 4723);

6

I keep getting that undefined is not a function (regarding .contexts().

“use strict”;

var wd = require(“wd”);
var chai = require(“chai”);
var chaiAsPromised = require(“chai-as-promised”);

chai.use(chaiAsPromised);
chai.should();
chaiAsPromised.transferPromiseness = wd.transferPromiseness;

var driver = {
“appium-version”: “1.0”,
platformName: “iOS”,
platformVersion: “8.4”,
deviceName: “iPhone 6”,
app: “/Users/andrew/Documents/SqorMobileiOS.app”,
};

var browser = wd.promiseChainRemote(“0.0.0.0”, 4723);

driver.contexts().then(function (contexts) { // get list of available views. Returns array: [“NATIVE_APP”,“WEBVIEW_1”]
return driver.context(contexts[1]); // choose the webview context
})

// do some web testing
.elementByName('Log in here  ').click()

.context('NATIVE_APP') // leave webview context

// do more native stuff here if we want

.quit() // stop webdrivage