scrollTo method doesn't work

Issues/Bugs
1

In my iOS app, there is an element named ‘foo’ that is several pages down in a scrollable panel. When I call driver.scrollTo(“foo”) it fails with the following exception. But I am able to call driver.findElement(By.name(“foo”) and it does find that element. What am I doing wrong?

Appium version: 1.5.3
Java version: 1.8.0_92
iOS version: 9.3.2

Caused by: 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: 15.29 seconds
For documentation on this error, please visit: http://seleniumhq.org/exceptions/no_such_element.html
Build info: version: ‘2.53.0’, revision: ‘35ae25b’, time: ‘2016-03-15 17:00:58’
System info: host: ‘xxx’, ip: ‘10.78.86.76’, os.name: ‘Mac OS X’, os.arch: ‘x86_64’, os.version: ‘10.11.5’, java.version: ‘1.8.0_92’
Driver info: io.appium.java_client.ios.IOSDriver
Capabilities [showIOSLog=true, recreateChromeDriverSessions=false, newCommandTimeout=3600, platformVersion=null, browserName=, platformName=iOS, udid=a0ed91fc4f6c5ee74f2b33b0b42fbf4fb1a837b3, version=null, deviceName=iPhone 6, fullReset=true, platform=iOS}, newCommandTimeout=3600, platformVersion=null, webStorageEnabled=false, locationContextEnabled=false, browserName=, takesScreenshot=true, javascriptEnabled=true, platformName=iOS, udid=a0ed91fc4f6c5ee74f2b33b0b42fbf4fb1a837b3}]
Session ID: 111047e1-e529-4b24-9d7f-27fea7bd30ab
*** Element info: {Using=-ios uiautomation, value=.scrollToElementWithPredicate(“name CONTAINS ‘foo’”)}
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.createThrowable(ErrorHandler.java:206)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ErrorHandler.throwIfResponseFailed(ErrorHandler.java:158)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:678)
at io.appium.java_client.DefaultGenericMobileDriver.execute(DefaultGenericMobileDriver.java:43)
at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.execute(AppiumDriver.java:1)
at io.appium.java_client.ios.IOSDriver.execute(IOSDriver.java:1)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.execute(RemoteWebElement.java:327)
at io.appium.java_client.DefaultGenericMobileElement.execute(DefaultGenericMobileElement.java:37)
at io.appium.java_client.MobileElement.execute(MobileElement.java:1)
at io.appium.java_client.ios.IOSElement.execute(IOSElement.java:1)
at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebElement.findElement(RemoteWebElement.java:198)
at io.appium.java_client.ios.IOSElement.findElementByIosUIAutomation(IOSElement.java:38)
at io.appium.java_client.ios.IOSElement.scrollTo(IOSElement.java:60)
at io.appium.java_client.ios.IOSElement.scrollTo(IOSElement.java:1)
at io.appium.java_client.ios.IOSDriver.scrollTo(IOSDriver.java:108)

2

Hi,

As per readme provided for java client 4.0 version, scrollTo and scrollToExact are deprecated.

3

What is the new way to scroll to an element in iOS then?

4

you can use swipe method.
like ((MobileElement)element).swipe(SwipeDirection.UP,100);

5

Thank you. I was able to use driver.swipe method to finish my test.

6

I am trying to swipe using below code:
((IOSElement)element).swipe(SwipeElementDirection.DOWN,100 );

But I am getting java.lang.NullPointerException. Any help?

7

Hi,

What if the element is not displayed on UI and it is presented at bottom of a list having more number of elements. Say, e.g. I’ve 200 contacts in our application. I need to scroll down up to the last 200th element based on String (text attribute value). How come this is possible?

Thanks,
Bhaskar.

8

Hi,

Could anyone suggest about this scroll to alternative.!!

Regards,
Vijay Bhaskar.

9

lets discuss & conclude in single thread If scrollTo is deprecated in java client 4.0, what is the alternative?