Unable to set value in text field iOS

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I’m using the appium_lib gem, and within it are several endpoint methods that are available for use to interact with the device. I’m trying to use set_immediate_value, but it crashes with the following error:
Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError: ERROR running Appium command: invalid json

Here’s my code snippet:

driver.set_immediate_value email_field, “#{username}”
…
def email_field
apm.driver.driver.find_element(:accessibility_id, ‘Email Field’)
end

The driver is able to find the email_field element fine, but crashes when executing set_immediate_value.

Anyone know how to fix this?

Thanks

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2

It’s probably broken. That method was added by another dev and it has no tests. I’ve opened an issue.

3

Is there an alternative to use in the mean time for setting values?

Thanks

4

You can invoke setValue via execute script as a work around.

https://github.com/appium/ruby_lib/blob/master/lib/appium_lib/ios/patch.rb#L36

5

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately execute_script doesn’t work with Appium version 1.2.2, as it’s deprecated. Any other work arounds?

6

execute script works fine and it’s not deprecated.

7

Ahh, my mistake. :mobile methods have been deprecated. This work around works :slight_smile: Thank you

8

@bootstraponline how do we send an enter key with ‘type’ method above? ‘\n’ that works with send_keys doesn’t seem to work

9

type is just setValue + hide keyboard. I don’t think it’ll do enter.

10

hide keyboard fails for me with keyboard is nil, because in ios8 simulator, keyboard doesn’t show up when entering text (bug)

11

In theory set_immediate_value is an easy way to invoke setValue, you could use that instead of .type.