iOS find element by partial id with xcuitest

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Hi,

I want to find some elements which share the prefix "pre " but has different suffixes.

i.e. elements ids are: “pre elem1” and “pre elem2”.

I want to be able to find each of them separately.

Could someone give me a hand with this?

Thanks.

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example with predicate:

@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSNsPredicate = "type == 'XCUIElementTypeStaticText' AND name BEGINSWITH 'pre '")
private List<IOSElement> yourList;
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Thanks for the quick response,

How can I use without @iOS… ?

I mean something like that:

driver.findElement(By…)

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@BB here your way:

driver.findElements(MobileBy.iOSNsPredicateString("type == 'XCUIElementTypeStaticText' AND name BEGINSWITH 'pre '"));
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It doesn’t seem to work…

It doesn’t recognize “.iOSNsPredicateString”

Do you know what could be the reason for that?

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your java-client version is OLD :slight_smile:

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Thanks a lot @Aleksei! I appreciate it.

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Can we use ios_predicate with Ruby client?

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My Java Client was up to date…

Can you tell me what to import?

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mine java-client version:

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.appium</groupId>
            <artifactId>java-client</artifactId>
            <version>5.0.0-BETA8</version>
        </dependency>

to import it is:

import io.appium.java_client.MobileBy;
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@gajeshwar try here - https://github.com/appium/sample-code/tree/master/sample-code/examples/ruby

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Sorry, but I can’t find anything related to ios predicate there.

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@gajeshwar next try - see end https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/ios_predicate.md

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Thanks for your help @Aleksei but that also didn’t work with iOS 10.* using
Appium 1.6.4.

I am doubtful whethet we have added predicate support in newer ruby library
or not.

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@Aleksei …What should I import to use : iOSXCUITFindBy ?

And maybe the reason I can’t find those methods is that I use Java?

10x

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@gajeshwar you need look into Appium logs to check how it sending with ruby.
@BB

import io.appium.java_client.pagefactory.iOSXCUITFindBy;
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Sorry but how can I check appium logs since I couldn’t execute those commands at all.

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@Aleksei
I have one of this in my code which is working fine…

@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSNsPredicate = “type == ‘XCUIElementTypeButton’ AND visible == 1 AND (name == ‘Allow Once’ OR name == ‘Allow’ OR name == ‘OK’)”)
private WebElement acctAlert;

Now I need to accommodate another type, ‘XCUIElementTypeOther’ along with the existing ‘XCUIElementTypeButton’.

How can I do that ?

Thanks for your response.

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@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSNsPredicate = “(type == ‘XCUIElementTypeButton’ OR type == ‘ XCUIElementTypeOther’ ) AND visible == 1 AND (name == ‘Allow Once’ OR name == ‘Allow’ OR name == ‘OK’)”)
private WebElement acctAlert;
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Thanks @Aleksei, but it did not work. I got this error.

Caused by: org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: Can’t locate an element by this strategy: By.chained({AppiumBy.iOSNsPredicate: (type == ‘XCUIElementTypeButton’ OR type == ‘ XCUIElementTypeOther’ ) AND visible == 1 AND (name == ‘Allow While Using App’ OR name == ‘Allow’ OR name == ‘OK’)})

I think I would try

@iOSXCUITFindBy(iOSNsPredicate = “(type == ‘XCUIElementTypeButton’ OR ‘ XCUIElementTypeOther’ ) AND visible == 1 AND (name == ‘Allow Once’ OR name == ‘Allow’ OR name == ‘OK’)”)
private WebElement acctAlert;

I will let you know.
Thanks,