Through Appium inpector, we are unable to see ID/Resource-ID attributes for IOS webview app

[Durga Prasad]

Hi All,

I'm trying to test our Cordova app in Appium. When I view the elements in the Appium Inspector, they don't seem to have anything that I can use as far as identifiers.

I am setting various things in the HTML for this element, such as id, name, etc. (it also has a label that is using the for attribute that points to the input.) but it does not appear to have anything that I can look for. So I end up looking for UIATextField elements with value of Email. This is undesirable since I do not have a consistent way to look up inputs. For example, if I change the value of the input, I would need to look up the element by that new input.

So my question is: how can I set accessibility identifiers or any handles for this element from the HTML from Cordova? I would even take data-* attributes that I could query for. Or am I going about this incorrectly?

I ask about accessibility identifiers since I have read in other places that I should not use XPath selectors for Appium tests, but I can see no clear reason why this is the case (it seems to work for me.)

Please suggest us.

Thanks,

Durga Prasad

[Jonathan Lipps]

This mailing list is for discussion about Appium development, not how to use Appium or troubleshooting. Please redirect your question to https://discuss.appium.io/

Jonathan

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[Durga Prasad]

Sure Jonathan,Thanks for info.I will redirect it.

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