What package to import to use UiSelector?

[Andrew Dinh]

I looked at the example test files for java-client.  There are the packages one of the tests imported to use UiSelector:

 

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;

import io.appium.java_client.remote.MobileCapabilityType;

import java.io.File;

import java.net.URL;

import java.util.List;

import org.junit.After;

import org.junit.Before;

import org.junit.Test;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

 

I checked that all of these are imported in my test file.  Yet, when I ran the test, UiSelector was not recognized as a symbol.

 

So I googled around and tried to import

 

import com.android.uiautomator.core.UiSelector;

 

But then I got an error that package com.android.uiautomator.core does not exist. 

 

Can anyone help please?  Thank you!

[Isaac Murchie]

What are you trying to do? 

For using UISelectors in Appium, see https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/uiautomator_uiselector.md

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[Andrew Dinh]

Hi Isaac,

I was trying to find and click on a Cancel button like this.

driver.findElementByAndroidUIAutomator(new UiSelector().text("Cancel")).click();

[Isaac Murchie]

The argument to the findElement call is a string that will be interpreted as Java. Try putting it in quotes. 

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[Andrew Dinh]

You mean like this?  driver.findElementByAndroidUIAutomator("new UiSelector().text("Cancel")").click();

 

That didn't work either.

 

 

[Isaac Murchie]

Define "didn't work". Is there anything in the logs?

See the examples in the doc I pointed to above for working examples. 

On Friday, July 25, 2014, Andrew Dinh <trieu...@gmail.com> wrote:

You mean like this?  driver.findElementByAndroidUIAutomator("new UiSelector().text("Cancel")").click();

 

That didn't work either.

 

 

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[Andrew Dinh]

Thank you for your help so far Isaac.

This is what I meant by didn't work:

[ERROR] C:\Appium2\Appium\Cam2\src\test\java\androidPages\CamPreview_Single.java:[40,45] error: cannot find symbol

[ERROR]   symbol:   class UiSelector

  location: class CamPreview_Single

That's why in the original message, I was asking what package to import.  Maybe my pom file is incorrect?  Here are my pom dependencies:

   <dependencies>

<dependency>

<groupId>junit</groupId>

<artifactId>junit</artifactId>

<version>4.11</version>

<scope>test</scope>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>

<version>LATEST</version>

<scope>test</scope>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

<artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>

<version>1.0.14</version>

<scope>test</scope>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>

<artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>

<version>1.0.14</version>

<scope>test</scope>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>

<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>

<version>3.2.2.RELEASE</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>io.appium</groupId>

<artifactId>java-client</artifactId>

<version>1.5.0</version>

</dependency>

    </dependencies>

[bootstrap online]

The UiSelector class is never used by client code, it's server only.
The client sends a string of Java to the server. There's nothing to
import.

[Andrew Dinh]

Actually, problem is now solved.  It was a syntax error on my part.  Before I was doing this:

driver.findElementByAndroidUIAutomator("new UiSelector().text("Cancel")").click();

But I should have done this

driver.findElementByAndroidUIAutomator("new UiSelector().text('Cancel')").click();

Now I got another issue.  But that's for another post.  Thanks Matt and Isaac for your help!

Andrew

On Friday, July 25, 2014 8:34:18 PM UTC-7, Isaac Murchie wrote:

The argument to the findElement call is a string that will be interpreted as Java. Try putting it in quotes. 

On Friday, July 25, 2014, Andrew Dinh <trieu...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Isaac,

I was trying to find and click on a Cancel button like this.

driver.findElementByAndroidUIAutomator(new UiSelector().text("Cancel")).click();

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[bootstrap online]

If you backslash escape the quotes, that should work as well.

driver.findElementByAndroidUIAutomator("new
UiSelector().text(\"Cancel\")").click();

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