scroll and find in appium lib

Satyajit Malugu

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Sep 30, 2013, 7:34:51 PM9/30/13

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Matthew,

Is there a scroll if required method in appium lib for android?

I currently have this and works pretty reliably for s_text

def self.scroll_and_find(element_text)

scroll_to element_text unless exists {s_text element_text}

s_text element_text

end

but it would be nice to have for other kinds of element finders (xpaths, buttons etc). This is becoming espeically relevant now we are also doing landscape testing.

-Satyajit

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Sep 30, 2013, 8:07:49 PM9/30/13

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scroll_to looks for a text or content description match by invoking mobile find.
https://github.com/appium/ruby_lib/blob/2003589197a78d54f3d177abbf2335724c090e1e/lib/appium_lib/android/element/generic.rb#L105

You can call mobile find with a different array to find buttons. The
existing XPath implementation is not very good on Android so that's
not so easy to add.

I think scrolling will be removed from Appium soon as part of the new
standard so I haven't put more time into adding features. /cc @jlipps

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Sep 30, 2013, 8:11:27 PM9/30/13

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In case it's not clear, anything with a text or content description
can be scrolled to. It's in no way limited to s_text.

Ritika Mishra

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Oct 3, 2013, 3:10:30 AM10/3/13

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Hi,

But how to scroll to RadioButton or a checkbox that is not bound to its displayed text. Developers have not even given any content-Desc to it (and are not even ready to add any). Xpath doesn't work. If i try using index number then its not at-all stable. Indexes completely depend on the number of check box/ radio button that show-up after scrolling. "ID" that we get through the hierarchy viewer will work only for API level 18+ (4.3).

Any suggestion or solution to this problem would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ritika

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Oct 3, 2013, 9:28:20 AM10/3/13

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Have the developers add a content description. You could also add it
for them. Content descriptions are very easy to set.

Anil Kumar

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Oct 3, 2013, 12:02:50 PM10/3/13

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Based on visible text, you can use siblings in xpath to reach to exact radio button.

Brent LaVelle

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Oct 8, 2013, 3:07:32 PM10/8/13

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I've just run in to this issue. The elements that I want are off the bottom of the screen for smaller devices. I can kludge in a swipe or flick but then I found this thread so I did this:

browser.execute_script 'scroll_to', 'listing_bedrooms'

browser.find_element :name, 'listing_bedrooms'

and got this: Selenium::WebDriver::Error::UnknownError: Not yet implemented. Please help us: http://appium.io/get-involved.html

Am I doing something wrong or is this something that needs to be added to Appium?

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Oct 8, 2013, 3:08:58 PM10/8/13

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Are you using Ruby? The scroll_to method that I'm using in Android
only works with the appium Ruby gem. If you're in a different
language, then you can either use the built in mobile scroll or port
the Ruby code.

Brent LaVelle

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Oct 8, 2013, 4:54:20 PM10/8/13

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I am using Ruby, well my tests are written in it. The appium server is the GUI on a mac. The problem is coming from the other side of the bridge. The Ruby code is getting a 501. It looks like I wasn't using 'scroll to' correctly

This was bad> browser.execute_script 'mobile: scrollTo', 'listing_bedrooms

So I poked around and I'm thinking it should look more like this:

Less bad> browser.execute_script 'mobile: scrollTo', 'listing_bedrooms'

Now I get a Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoSuchElementError

After some searching I've still not figured it out but I can keep searching from here.

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Oct 8, 2013, 4:56:55 PM10/8/13

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Here's a working scroll_to example in Ruby:
https://github.com/appium/ruby_lib_android/blob/56cc602d7eb78d06127693a214f8d76298cd6272/lib/android/specs/android/element/generic.rb#L31

Brent LaVelle

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Oct 8, 2013, 5:06:13 PM10/8/13

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Sorry I botched that last post. The original really bad code was doing this

browser.execute_script 'scroll_to', 'listing_bedrooms'

Brent LaVelle

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Oct 8, 2013, 5:25:22 PM10/8/13

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That is the one test that is failing for me:

Finished in 36 secs

1) Error:

android/element/generic#test_0006_scroll_to:

Selenium::WebDriver::Error::NoSuchElementError: No such element.

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.35.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:51:in `assert_ok'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.35.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/response.rb:15:in `initialize'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.35.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:59:in `new'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.35.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:59:in `create_response'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.35.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/default.rb:66:in `request'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.35.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/http/common.rb:40:in `call'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/appium_lib-0.11.1/lib/appium_lib/common/patch.rb:151:in `raw_execute'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.35.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:612:in `execute'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.35.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/remote/bridge.rb:333:in `executeScript'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/selenium-webdriver-2.35.1/lib/selenium/webdriver/common/driver.rb:213:in `execute_script'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/appium_lib-0.11.1/lib/appium_lib/driver.rb:571:in `mobile'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/appium_lib-0.11.1/lib/appium_lib/android/element/generic.rb:115:in `scroll_to'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/appium_lib-0.11.1/lib/appium_lib/driver.rb:201:in `rescue in block (4 levels) in promote_appium_methods'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/appium_lib-0.11.1/lib/appium_lib/driver.rb:193:in `block (4 levels) in promote_appium_methods'

/Users/blavelle/git/ruby_lib_android/lib/android/specs/android/element/generic.rb:33:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

12 runs, 12 assertions, 0 failures, 1 errors, 0 skips

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Oct 8, 2013, 5:31:53 PM10/8/13

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I just ran the tests against an API 18 emulator and they all pass.
https://github.com/appium/ruby_console/blob/master/img/avd_settings.png

Finished in 2 mins 2 secs

98 runs, 122 assertions, 0 failures, 0 errors, 0 skips

Brent LaVelle

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Oct 8, 2013, 6:42:03 PM10/8/13

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I ran just the android tests 'rake android' against a Nexus 4, a gennymotion emulator and just now a Nexus 7. The Nexus 7 gave me a different error

1) Error:

android/element/generic#test_0007_mobile find works before and after source:

JSON::ParserError: A JSON text must at least contain two octets!

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/json-1.8.0/lib/json/common.rb:155:in `initialize'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/json-1.8.0/lib/json/common.rb:155:in `new'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/json-1.8.0/lib/json/common.rb:155:in `parse'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/appium_lib-0.11.1/lib/appium_lib/common/helper.rb:203:in `get_source'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/appium_lib-0.11.1/lib/appium_lib/driver.rb:201:in `rescue in block (4 levels) in promote_appium_methods'

/Users/blavelle/.rvm/gems/ruby-1.9.3-p448/gems/appium_lib-0.11.1/lib/appium_lib/driver.rb:193:in `block (4 levels) in promote_appium_methods'

/Users/blavelle/git/ruby_lib_android/lib/android/specs/android/element/generic.rb:41:in `block (2 levels) in <top (required)>'

13 runs, 15 assertions, 0 failures, 1 errors, 0 skips

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I'm looking over the test and I don't see what the scroll_to receiver is, Rubymine is confused too. I'm guessing there is an include somewhere that adds that method.

I then tried to make an AVD with your setting on my Mountain Lion Mac I could not set the CPU/ABI so it stayed ARM (armeabi-v7a) (NOTE: if I change the target to 4.2.2 API Level 17, I can modify this)

I got the same error as the N4 and Genymotion

Finished in 54 secs

1) Error:

android/element/textfield#test_0001_textfields: