Struggling with getting new Appium xpath to work with 'contains'

[Curtis Siemens]

We are using python to drive our Appium testcases & I'm trying to convert them over to the new 1.0-beta appium real xpaths.

This used to work:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//navigationBar/textfield[contains(@text, 'Enter Search Text')]")

With 1.0 I can get this to work:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//UIANavigationBar/UIATextField[1]")
But that isn't as general - and the item might not always be the 1st textfield - I need contains to work in our xpaths.

I tried to get this to work (which is a simple translation from the shortcut xpath version), but so far no go:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//UIANavigationBar/UIATextField[contains(@text, 'Enter Search Text')]")
- Always get back "status":7 "message":"An element count not be located on the page using the given search parameters."

[bootstrap online]

Does 'Enter Search Text' match exactly the text in the app? It may be
a mixed case issue.

[Jonathan Lipps]

You might also try the @label and @name attributes. iOS does funny things with these sometimes. Failing that look at the source so you can see why your query is failing.

On Apr 23, 2014, at 5:24 PM, bootstrap online <ma...@bootstraponline.com> wrote:

> Does 'Enter Search Text' match exactly the text in the app? It may be
> a mixed case issue.
>

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[Curtis Siemens]

Thanks for the advice - turned out both replies were true:
1. The contains(@text, "aBc") is  case sensitive - so you have to have the right upper/lower case in your search to match the app.
2. The @text does not work (at least in iOS for our App), but @label does, so now this works: driver.find_element_by_xpath("//navigationBar/textfield[contains(@label, 'Enter Search Text')]")

[Curtis Siemens]

Sorry I mean this now works:
driver.find_element_by_xpath("//UIANavigationBar/UIATextField[contains(@label, 'Enter Search Text')]")

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[bootstrap online]

I have an example of case insensitive contains in the Ruby bindings.

https://github.com/appium/ruby_lib/blob/f4397302cc9ffc42759fe946e0da643df2c89100/lib/appium_lib/common/helper.rb#L173

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