(iOS) Does findElementByName(String Name) support regexp?

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Does findElementByName(String Name) support regexp FOR iOS?

I have a list contains some text, e.g. sunny_Monday, rainy_Tuesday, cloud_Wednesday…

I want to use the method like:

driver.findElementByName(“sunny”).click();
or
driver.findElementByName("^sunny").click();

to click the text “sunny_Monday”, but it doesn’t work.
Since I could not get the full text (only can get the ‘sunny’, ‘rainy’, ‘cloud’, the suffix is dynamic for every word), Is there any other way to achieve this?

thanks!

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An alternative would be to useUiSelector, which supports regex.

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/support/test/uiautomator/UiSelector.html

textMatches(String regex)
resourceIdMatches(String regex)
packageNameMatches(String regex)
descriptionMatches(String regex)
classNameMatches(String regex)

Or xpath “contains()”.

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thanks for your comments, but I’m testing on iOS…

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Appium has native iOS automation support (try predicates), or you could use xpath. I suggest trying native first.

http://appium.io/slate/en/master/?ruby#basic-comparisons

For example:

driver.findElementByName(“sunny”).click();

can be replaced with (as a VERY generic example)

driver.findElement(MobileBy.IosUIAutomation(“au.mainApp().getFirstWithPredicate(“name CONTAINS ‘sunny’”)”)).click();

I would specify type of an element as well as get a list of elements that fit the criteria and work with that.

or if you prefer xpath (which I don’t recommend)

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(@name, ‘sunny’)]]")).click();

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Thanks Simon!
It works using xpath.

And I will try to use your recommend method “MobileBy.IosUIAutomation” to verify which way is best.

Thanks again!