Message: Cannot set the element to '[email protected]'. Did you interact with the correct element?

Issues/Bugs
1

I am doing automation of the app using appium. I am able to launch the app but I go for login, it can read the XPath for login. But appium is unable to enter the mobile number. For mobile device, I am using the emulator. I’ve attached the logs for your reference. logs.txt (1.9 KB)

This is my code:

email = driver.find_element(By.XPATH, '/hierarchy/android.widget.FrameLayout/android.widget.LinearLayout'
                                              '/android.widget.FrameLayout/android.widget.FrameLayout/android.widget'
                                              '.FrameLayout/android.view.View/android.view.View/android.view.View'
                                              '/android.view.View/android.view.View['
                                              '2]/android.view.View/android.widget.EditText[1]')
        email.click()
        time.sleep(5)
        email.send_keys('[email protected]')

Error facing:

Encountered internal error running command:
selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidElementStateException: Message: Cannot set the element to ‘[email protected]’. Did you interact with the correct element?

2
  1. dont use such long xpath
  2. try never use xpath
  3. after you tap on input whole path to element may change!. See 1 + 2
  4. instead of xpath use ids. if your app do not have ids -> ask developers to set it.
  5. if your android developers cant do this by any reason (or maybe you just cant contact to them) try use classname:
        List<MobileElement> inputs = driver.findElements(MobileBy.className("android.widget.EditText")); // now we have all inputs
        // fastest way (may not 100% work with all apps. depends on your app)
        inputs.get(0).setValue("[email protected]"); // ' inputs.get(0)' = take first input
        // or
        inputs.get(0).sendKeys("[email protected]");
        // if fastest way does not work and app need to open keyboard first
        inputs.get(0).click(); // TODO replace click -> tap. Tap = mobile, Click = web. Click is not nice way for mobile.
        // sometimes you need find element again after tap. add it here if it happens.
        inputs.get(0).setValue("[email protected]");
        // or
        inputs.get(0).sendKeys("[email protected]");
3

Hi Aleksei,

Changed the code to
email = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, ‘android.widget.EditText’)
email.click()
time.sleep(5)
email.send_keys(‘[email protected]’)

This is all I have other than xpath -
|elementId|4ca8b2ad-8930-44ac-b8a1-72efba6c35a1|
|index|1|
|package|com.ghc.marsapp|
|class|android.widget.EditText|
|text|Email|
|resource-id||
|checkable|false|
|checked|false|
|clickable|true|
|enabled|true|
|focusable|true|
|focused|false|
|long-clickable|false|
|password|false|
|scrollable|false|
|selected|false|
|bounds|[122,1046][1318,1252]|
|displayed|true|

Also, tried searching by element id but still getting the same error.
selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidElementStateException: Message: Cannot set the element to ‘[email protected]’. Did you interact with the correct element?

4 
email = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, ‘android.widget.EditText’)
email.click()
time.sleep(5)
email = driver.find_element(By.CLASS_NAME, ‘android.widget.EditText’) // try add to search element again
email.send_keys(‘[email protected]’)

also try instead of ‘send_keys’:

5

It’s still the same. Tried with XPATH as well.

6

Same cant happen when using Actions way. Should be other error. Show it.

7

C:\Users\purbita\PycharmProjects\GHC\venv\Scripts\python.exe “C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2020.3.5\plugins\python-ce\helpers\pycharm_jb_unittest_runner.py” --target Main.login_signup.test_login
Testing started at 00:14 …
Launching unittests with arguments python -m unittest Main.login_signup.test_login in C:\Users\purbita\PycharmProjects\GHC\Login

Ran 1 test in 63.902s

FAILED (errors=1)

Error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “C:\Users\purbita\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\unittest\case.py”, line 59, in testPartExecutor
yield
File “C:\Users\purbita\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\unittest\case.py”, line 593, in run
self._callTestMethod(testMethod)
File “C:\Users\purbita\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\unittest\case.py”, line 550, in _callTestMethod
method()
File “C:\Users\purbita\PycharmProjects\GHC\Login\Main.py”, line 29, in test_login
email.send_keys("[email protected]")
File “C:\Users\purbita\PycharmProjects\GHC\venv\lib\site-packages\appium\webdriver\webelement.py”, line 218, in send_keys
self._execute(RemoteCommand.SEND_KEYS_TO_ELEMENT, {‘text’: ‘’.join(keys), ‘value’: keys})
File “C:\Users\purbita\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webelement.py”, line 633, in _execute
return self._parent.execute(command, params)
File “C:\Users\purbita\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\webdriver.py”, line 321, in execute
self.error_handler.check_response(response)
File “C:\Users\purbita\PycharmProjects\GHC\venv\lib\site-packages\appium\webdriver\errorhandler.py”, line 31, in check_response
raise wde
File “C:\Users\purbita\PycharmProjects\GHC\venv\lib\site-packages\appium\webdriver\errorhandler.py”, line 26, in check_response
super().check_response(response)
File “C:\Users\purbita\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python39\lib\site-packages\selenium\webdriver\remote\errorhandler.py”, line 242, in check_response
raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)
selenium.common.exceptions.InvalidElementStateException: Message: Cannot set the element to ‘[email protected]’. Did you interact with the correct element?

8

a was asking to show error with such code.