python wait till element is seen doesn't appear to be working.

[Simon Howlett]

apologies for the simple nature of the question.

I have some tests that wait until either a screen is loaded (mobile safari) or until a specified length of time (native ioS), these tests were previously working, but now it seems like the wait is being ignored. I am assuming i should either have a preference set in the UI that i dont, or run node with an argument..

the simplest versions being (for the safari example, apologies for the crappy code..);

import unittest

import os

import time

from selenium import webdriver

import selenium.webdriver.support.ui as ui

class TestSequenceFunctions(unittest.TestCase):

    def setUp(self):

        # set up appium

        self.driver = webdriver.Remote(

            command_executor='http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub',

            desired_capabilities={

                'browserName': 'iOS',

                'device':'iPad',

                'platform': 'Mac',

                'version': '6.1',

                'app': 'Safari',

            })

    def test_ui_items(self):

        self.driver.get('http://webfilings.com') #open url

        #onelogin sign in

        wait = ui.WebDriverWait(self.driver,8)

        wait.until(lambda driver: self.driver.title.startswith('xxxx'))

        self.driver.find_element_by_link_text('WDesk').click()

I am getting a NoSuchElement exception at the point in time the WDesk link should be loaded. 

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "test_webfilings.py", line 30, in test_ui_items

    self.driver.find_element_by_link_text('WDesk').click()

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 241, in find_element_by_link_text

    return self.find_element(by=By.LINK_TEXT, value=link_text)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 675, in find_element

    {'using': by, 'value': value})['value']

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 160, in execute

    self.error_handler.check_response(response)

  File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/errorhandler.py", line 149, in check_response

    raise exception_class(message, screen, stacktrace)

NoSuchElementException: Message: u'An element could not be located on the page using the given search parameters.' 

[Jonathan Lipps]

What happens if you set an implicit wait as well, say 10s?

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[Simon Howlett]

seems to work for my safari tests, now attempting similar for my native tests.. any thoughts on why that suddenly stopped being sufficient? user error probably ;)

[liwa...@gmail.com]

Hi Simon,

I'm now running into a similar problem, do you mind sharing how to do the wait in native app? and what library you import? Thanks!