Xpath to elements

igal_epshtein · January 8, 2015, 10:04pm

Hi,
When Im trying to inspect my app (IOS) in console I see the appium’s response :

[{"UIAImage":{"@":{"name":"/Users/ie54553/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/123456/data/Applications/789798/My.app/Resources.bundle/black_btn.png","label":null,"value":null,"dom":null,"enabled":true,"valid":true,"visible":false,"hint":null,"path":"/0/0/7/0","x":10,"y":264,"width":80,"height":80}

The path property in this case is : 0/0/7/0

While I’m looking in appium inspector , the xpath value is: //UIAApplication[1]/UIAWindow[1]/UIAImage[4]/UIAImage[1]

Any idea how does the response “path” being translated to the xpath value ?

Tanks

bootstraponline · January 9, 2015, 4:02am

This is a common question. I’ve responded on GitHub:

github.com

appium/ruby_lib/blob/master/docs/index_paths.md

**Deprecated** Because iOS driver for UIAutomation is deprecated.

# Index Paths on iOS

Elements on iOS have an [index path attribute](https://github.com/appium/appium-uiauto/blob/2cf1e30801263dfc01627ded28a1be5af1083bc5/uiauto/lib/element-patch/tree-patch.js#L9)
that appium calculates when the page source is requested. Note this is not the same as xpath.

> <UIAStaticText name="Alerts" label="Alerts" value="Alerts" dom="" enabled="true" valid="true" visible="true" hint="" path="/0/1/1/10/0" x="17.578125" y="596" width="53.90625" height="25.78125">

The index path can be used by calling [getElementByIndexPath]( https://github.com/appium/appium-uiauto/blob/af1befa8208074686cd38b845ddefabc057106fc/uiauto/lib/mechanic-ext/xpath-ext.js#L239):

```ruby
# ruby example # For Appium(automation name), not XCUITest
execute_script('$.getElementByIndexPath("/0/1/1/10/0")').text # Alerts
```

Internally what happens is `/0/1/1/10/0` is transformed into `1/1/10/0` and executed as follows:

```ruby
# ruby example # For Appium(automation name), not XCUITest

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In summary, path refers to index path and not xpath.

igal_epshtein · January 11, 2015, 9:32am

Hi,
Thanks for the help.

The problem is, I’m using Java client, and as I see, there is no such a method in Java for the MobileElement object.

What do you think?

bootstraponline · January 11, 2015, 10:57pm

Java has an executeScript method.

http://selenium.googlecode.com/git/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/JavascriptExecutor.html#executeScript(java.lang.String,%20java.lang.Object...)