Not able to interact with elements from a webview opened in an IOS native app

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1

Hello.

I’m automating an iOS mobile app.
Real device - iphone 6+, 10.3.3
Appium 1.7.2
Java - compile group: ‘io.appium’, name: ‘java-client’, version: ‘6.0.0-BETA2’
selenium - compile group: ‘org.seleniumhq.selenium’, name: ‘selenium-api’, version: ‘3.8.1’

Everything works ok (native part), until i have 1 section in the app (payment process) where an webview is presented. I can identify elements using safari developer mode:
Ex:

public By getCardType = By.xpath("//*[@id=\"KKName\"]/option[1]");
public By visaCard = By.xpath("//*[@id=\"KKName\"]/option[2]");
public By cardNumberInput = By.xpath("//*[@id=\"cardnumber\"]");
public By cardNumberInput2 = By.id("cardnumber");

When I’m running switch to webview method, it says that no webview is found:

public static void switchToWebview() throws Exception {
    MyLogger.log.info("Trying to switch to first non NATIVE_APP view");
    boolean foundNonNativeContext = false;
    for (String context : getContextHandles()) {
        if ((!foundNonNativeContext) && !NATIVE_APP.equals(context)) {
            foundNonNativeContext = true;
            MyLogger.log.info("Found non native context: " + context);
            switchToContext(context);
        }
    }
    if (!foundNonNativeContext) {
        MyLogger.log.info("ONLY NATIVE_APP CONTEXT AVAILABLE");
    }
}

This are my caps:

caps.setCapability(“platformName”, “iOS”);
caps.setCapability(“platformVersion”, “10.3.3”);
caps.setCapability(“deviceName”, deviceID);
caps.setCapability(“app”, APP_LOCATION());
caps.setCapability(“udid”, DEVICE_ID());
caps.setCapability(“newCommandTimeout”, 600);
caps.setCapability(“automationName”, AUTOMATION_NAME());
// caps.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.ROTATABLE, true);
caps.setCapability(“wdaConnectionTimeout”, 60000);
caps.setCapability(“resetOnSessionStartOnly”, true);
caps.setCapability(“useNewWDA”, true);
caps.setCapability(“commandTimeouts”, “120000”);
caps.setCapability(“wdaLocalPort”, WDA_PORT());
caps.setCapability(“clearSystemFiles”, true);

What i’m doing wrong?

I’m getting this:

org.openqa.selenium.NoSuchElementException: An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters. (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)
Command duration or timeout: 0 milliseconds
Can someone give me a hint?

2

Hi @maiky,

We are also having an ios app, in which we have to deal with webview, but without performing any switch, It is working fine.

3

Try using Below code
public static void switchContext(String context_name)
{
Logs.info(“Before swtich context”+driver.getContext());
try {
Thread.sleep(1500);
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
Set contextNames = driver.getContextHandles();
if(!(contextNames.size() >1))
{
Logs.info(“Can’t Switch as only one context is there”);
return;
}
System.out.println(“size of handle”+contextNames.size());
for (String contextName : contextNames) {

        System.out.println("Name of context is"+contextNames);
        driver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(40,TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        if (contextName.contains(context_name))
        {
             driver.context(contextName);
             return;
        }

        }

        Logs.info("after switch"+driver.getContext());
}

and Try to recursively call this method at least two times and between each call give implicit wait of 30 seconds

4

The waiting before switching to webview was the problem. Works perfect with my code sample (also works with your code sample).