I want to check if an element exists; if it does not I don't want an error or failure

[Aaron Kuehn]

In the page I'm testing, two buttons may be displayed: BASIC or ADVANCED.

I want to be able to tell if the ADVANCED button is showing -- and if so, click it.

If the BASIC button is showing, I want to do nothing and continue with my test.

All of the Nightwatchjs options I've experimented with generate a failure message. For example if I "waitforpresent" or "waitforvisible" and the button is not there, it generates an error/failure. I just want to know which button is present so I can make a decision in my code.

Thoughts?

[Daniel Rinehart]

Would isVisible with a callback support your use case:

http://nightwatchjs.org/api#isVisible

-- Daniel R. <dan...@neophi.com> [http://danielr.neophi.com/]

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[Aaron Kuehn]

The problem is that if isVisible comes back negative (i.e. the button is not visible) that shows as an error.

[Daniel Rinehart]

Perhaps using a similar technique with waitForElementPresent using its abortOnFailure flag? I'm guessing here since I've not tried to setup a branching test like this.

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[Erica S]

This is what i did

     browser.element('id', 'yourid', function(visible) {

        if(visible.status !== -1){

 

 DO SOMETHING IF IT EXISTS

 

        } else {

              DO SOMETHING ELSE IF IT DOESN'T EXIST

   

        }

    });

[Aaron Kuehn]

Erica: Thank you! This lead me in the right direction. Here's the code I ended up with for my situation. Thanks again!

// CHECK WHETHER THE BASIC OR ADVANCED BUTTON IS VISIBLE.

// THE SELECTOR FOR BROWSER.ELEMENT IS THE ADVANCED BUTTON.
browser.element('css selector', 'html.mozilla body#jira.aui-layout.aui-theme-default.ka.ajax-issue-search-and-view.page-type-navigator div#page section#content div.navigator-container div.navigator-body div.contained-content form.navigator-search.query-component.generic-styled div.aui-group div.aui-item.search-wrap div.search-container div.search-options-container div.mode-switcher a.switcher-item.active', function(visible) {
	// 0 INDICATES THAT THE ADVANCED BUTTON WAS FOUND -- CLICKING IT WILL TOGGLE TO ADVANCED MODE.
 		if (visible.status == 0) {
 			console.log('Switching to Advanced Search Mode....');
 			browser.waitForElementVisible('html.mozilla body#jira.aui-layout.aui-theme-default.ka.ajax-issue-search-and-view.page-type-navigator div#page section#content div.navigator-container div.navigator-body div.contained-content form.navigator-search.query-component.generic-styled div.aui-group div.aui-item.search-wrap div.search-container div.search-options-container div.mode-switcher a.switcher-item.active',5000,'%s Found.')
			browser.click('html.mozilla body#jira.aui-layout.aui-theme-default.ka.ajax-issue-search-and-view.page-type-navigator div#page section#content div.navigator-container div.navigator-body div.contained-content form.navigator-search.query-component.generic-styled div.aui-group div.aui-item.search-wrap div.search-container div.search-options-container div.mode-switcher a.switcher-item.active')
 		}
 });